Job Description: Head of Research
Research at Ethara turns open problems into shipped, reproducible results. We run a pod-based research function under a shared agenda, and every delivery team draws on that depth through its attached researcher. You will own that engine end to end.
1. Role Details
Title: Head of Research
Vertical: Research
Reporting to: CTO
Years of Experience: 10-15 years

2. Team and Mission
Ethara Research works in pods under a shared agenda. Research Leads (R4 to R5) run the pods; researchers and research engineers (R3 to R5) staff them. The Head of Research is the vertical's single point of contact and named gatekeeper: research agenda owner, hiring authority, external interface, and final offer sign-off. The role holds the Principal Investigator (PI) responsibility for the vertical bar, spanning ethics review, dataset and compute governance, training-run governance, peer review, and publication approval.

3. Role Mission
Your goal is to achieve these outcomes in your first 6 to 12 months:




Publish and defend a 2 to 3 year research agenda that aligns pod roadmaps with Ethara's product and delivery direction.
Run the full research hiring loop as PI (research-taste interviews, job talks, advisor reference calls) and grow the vertical to plan without lowering the bar.
Take at least one flagship research claim from idea through ethics review, tracked experiments, peer review, and publication approval to public release.

4. Responsibilities
Own the research agenda: choose the problems worth working on, prune the ones that are not, and defend the trade-offs to the leadership team.
Run the Research Leads with a shallow reporting chain, pod-level bars, and day-to-day review discipline per the research lifecycle.
Hold the PI responsibility: chair ethics review, sign off training-run and dataset governance, and gate peer review and publication approval.
Own the hiring bar for R3 to R5: conduct research-taste interviews and advisor reference calls personal

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