# Residency Manager

**Company:** [Astera](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/astera)
**Location:** Emeryville, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $150k – $250k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Program Management, Operations Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Coordination, Process Improvement, Written Communication, Verbal Communication
**Posted:** 2026-07-08

> Own end-to-end operations for Astera's fully-funded research Residency program, serving as primary point of contact for residents while managing selection, onboarding, needs anticipation, and scaling processes in a fast-moving early-stage environment. Requires 5-10 years operations or program management experience, exceptional organization, and cultural alignment with ambitious science and technology goals.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the operational backbone of the Residency program, including selection, onboarding, check-ins, and transitions, while partnering with track leads on scientific judgment and budgets.
- Serve as the primary operational point of contact for every resident across their full tenure, from initial application to offer acceptance through completion or transition.
- Anticipate and consolidate resident needs across a growing and heterogeneous set of individuals.
- Identify recurring needs and friction across residents and build lightweight, repeatable ways to meet them as the program scales.
- Offer perspective and informal coaching to residents as they tackle the challenges of growing young organizations.
- Manage the rolling selection process, including scheduling, reviewer workflows, candidate communications, finalist logistics, ensuring quality holds as the process iterates.
- Keep senior stakeholders aligned and informed with clear, concise, high-signal updates without generating unnecessary process.
- Smooth the handoff from offer to Day 1, including helping residents stand up teams ahead of their start date.
- Flex to the "unknown unknowns" of a young, growing program, including event logistics, hub operations, cross-functional support during peak periods, and special projects across the Operations stack.

## Requirements
- 5-10 years in operations, chief-of-staff, program management or another role demanding exceptional organization, relationship management, and judgment.
- Excitement about the science and technology Astera supports, and the curiosity that makes getting smart on a new field feel like a perk.
- Demonstrated ability to run complex, multi-stakeholder operations independently in a fast-moving environment.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication.
- Motivated by enabling science and technology that could reshape the future.
- Excited to define what a modern research institute looks and feels like, rather than inheriting an established playbook.
- Thrives in early-stage environments where the role will evolve significantly and the path forward is often ambiguous: comfortable proposing direction while staying calibrated to leadership's priorities.
- Values giving and receiving direct feedback as a cultural multiplier, and sees AI tools as an opportunity to uplevel how the work gets done.
- Generous collaborator who doesn't maintain strong boundaries around what "isn't your job".

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience scaling young organizations and can offer perspective to residents as they build their own organizations.

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