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Periodic Labs· Business and Operations
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Menlo Park, CA$250k - $300kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Role at Periodic Labs bridging research, model development, and product/operations to accelerate translating scientific progress into outcomes. High-ownership position requiring deep understanding of science and AI, with cross-functional collaboration and strategic partnership to leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Support the operating rhythm of the research organization — research planning cycles, milestone tracking, experiment prioritization, and cross-team coordination between AI and physical sciences
  • Design and maintain systems that give leadership real-time visibility into research progress, resource utilization, and emerging risks across the model development and lab science roadmaps
  • Partner with the Head of Research and Principal Scientists to translate long-horizon scientific goals into quarterly operating plans, resourcing decisions, and hiring priorities
  • Identify and remove the organizational, process, and tooling bottlenecks that slow down researchers and scientists — acting as a force multiplier for the people doing the core work
  • Coordinate compute, lab equipment, and infrastructure resource allocation across research projects, working closely with infra and lab operations leads
  • Serve as the operational link between research outputs and product development — ensuring scientific milestones translate into clear product implications and that product needs are legible to research teams
  • Drive the product planning process in close partnership with founders and product leads: roadmap development, prioritization frameworks, and cross-functional alignment
  • Build the processes and artifacts (roadmaps, decision logs, spec templates, review cadences) that make the product-science collaboration scalable as we grow
  • Lead or support evaluation design, benchmark development, and model assessment processes that connect scientific capability to real-world product requirements
  • Lead special projects and strategic analyses that don’t fit neatly into any existing function: competitive landscape assessments, build/buy/partner decisions, new capability evaluations
  • Support external partnerships, collaborations, and customer engagements that sit at the boundary of research and commercial — from scoping to execution

Qualifications

  • An undergraduate or graduate degree in physics, chemistry, materials science, computational science, or a closely related quantitative discipline — or equivalent depth demonstrated through research or industry experience
  • 4+ years of experience in strategy, operations, product management, chief-of-staff, or a closely related function — with at least some of that time spent inside a technical, research-driven, or AI organization
  • A genuine ability to read and engage with primary scientific literature, follow technical discussions at the frontier of AI and physical science, and translate what you learn into operational decisions
  • Exceptional analytical and structured thinking — you can decompose hard problems, build models under uncertainty, and present findings with conviction and intellectual honesty
  • Outstanding communication skills: you write with precision and clarity, and you can adapt your register from a conversation with a principal scientist to a board presentation without losing rigor
  • High agency, strong judgment, and the organizational credibility to influence without authority across a team of world-class researchers and engineers
  • Experience designing and operating planning and prioritization systems in environments where the work is exploratory, the outputs are uncertain, and the stakes are high
  • A genuine belief in the mission — you are drawn to the idea of using AI to accelerate scientific discovery, and that orientation shapes how you approach your work

Skills

Required:Strategy and operationsProduct planning and roadmappingProgram management

Benefits

  • Not specified in the description
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Periodic Labs

From bits to atoms.

Periodic Labs is an artificial intelligence research company pioneering the next leap in scientific discovery. We operate at the intersection of machine learning and scientific experimentation under the thesis that that true understanding of the universe is only possible by interacting and experimenting on it.

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