Research Project Manager

Role overview

A research operations team is hiring a Research Project Manager to lead multi-partner studies that produce real-world evidence across health and wellness domains. The role owns a portfolio of commercial, academic, and member-based studies from feasibility through closeout, working closely with clinical, scientific, engineering, product, commercial, legal, and regulatory teams as well as external collaborators. It suits someone who can translate research questions into clear operational plans and keep complex, cross-functional projects moving in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities

- Own a portfolio of commercial, academic, and member-based research studies from feasibility and scoping through partner coordination, launch, data collection, analysis readiness, reporting, and closeout. - Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic collaborators across academic, healthcare, CRO, and commercial organizations. - Establish repeatable processes, workflows, and documentation that support high-quality research at speed and scale. - Partner with cross-functional experts to translate research questions into clear study plans, operational requirements, documented decisions, milestones, reporting, and evidence deliverables. - Coordinate budgets, contracts, partner responsibilities, data-transfer expectations, privacy and consent requirements, timelines, and issue resolution. - Monitor study progress, surface risks early, and communicate tradeoffs clearly to internal and external stakeholders. - Support evidence dissemination through reports, publications, abstracts, partner deliverables, clinical education, or commercial and regulatory materials as appropriate.

Requirements

- Three or more years of experience managing human research, clinical research, health outcomes, real-world evidence, healthcare programs, or equivalent partner research programs. - Demonstrated experience independently managing external academic, commercial, clinical, CRO, and/or healthcare partnerships. - Track record of taking projects from planning to execution, reporting, and closeout. - Strong project-management, documentation, risk-management, and cross-functional communication skills. - Familiarity with research data flows, participant privacy and consent, data-quality review, and tools such as spreadsheets, project trackers, survey platforms, EHRs, EDC, CTMS, eTMF, or comparable systems.

Nice to have

- Human-subjects research and GCP/CITI training, or willingness to complete required training.

Benefits and work setup

- Remote US role with a slight preference for candidates based on the East Coast.