Special Projects Associate (Contract, London)

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£62.5/hr
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Ethos pays £500 per day for this 6-month, full-time contract, about £62.50 an hour over an 8-hour day. This is a contract role on Ethos's own team, based at its London office in Kings Cross. You work in the office Monday to Thursday and from home on Friday, so you need to live within commuting distance.
You run defined workstreams inside larger projects Ethos delivers for AI labs and other frontier clients. A Special Projects Lead owns the client and the budget; you own the day-to-day quality of what gets shipped and coordinate the experts who produce it. Requests often come with a 24-hour turnaround.
Day to day:
Run your workstreams from kick-off to sign-off
Review expert work every day before it reaches the client
Brief, onboard and coordinate experts and freelancers, and give them feedback
Keep accurate records of task status, who is assigned to what, and delivery progress
Spot quality problems that keep coming back and fix them at the source with your lead
Help write the processes and playbooks as the team grows
What you need:
A strong academic record, or experience that shows you learn fast and think sharply
1 to 3 years of project management in management consulting or startup operations
Close attention to detail
Comfort with ambiguity, and the habit of asking rather than guessing
Clear, professional communication with internal and client contacts
The organisation to run several workstreams at once and still hit deadlines
You like doing the work yourself, not only coordinating it

Requirements

Must be eligible to work in United Kingdom
Fluent proficiency in English (Written & Verbal)
Reliable high-speed internet connection
Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience
Demonstrated expertise in Project Management
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No. When your profile is live, Ethos matches you to new projects from your career history, so companies find you. Each finished project raises your Expert Score, which brings you better-paid work.
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Within 30 days of your invoice, after a project closes. Some AI training platforms pay weekly, so plan for the longer wait.
What specific skills does this listing call for?
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Who built Ethos and is it legitimate?
Yes. Ethos was founded in London in 2024 by James Lo (McKinsey, SoftBank Vision Fund) and Daniel Mankowitz (Google DeepMind research scientist and lead author of AlphaDev). It raised a $22.75M Series A led by a16z in May 2026, with General Catalyst and XTX Markets participating, and works with AI labs, private equity firms, hedge funds and consultancies. The link on this page is an affiliate link; it doesn't affect your pay or the projects you're offered.