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 adviso

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