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Project Manager
About Us:
micro1 is the end-to-end human data infrastructure behind AGI. Our AI recruiter model is used by frontier AI labs and Fortune 10s to source, vet, and deploy PhDs and professors from the world’s top universities at scale. These experts are placed directly into the training loops of the most advanced AI systems, powering the breakthroughs that move models forward. Our data platform converts their expertise into high-signal training datasets, and our talent management tooling measures, routes, and improves performance at scale.
Role Overview:
We’re looking for a Project Manager who is highly organized, proactive, and eager to learn how world-class product and engineering teams operate. You’ll work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, and Ops teams to help plan, track, and deliver projects on time. This role is perfect for someone early in their career who wants hands-on exposure to real product development in a high-growth startup environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in planning and tracking projects across product and engineering teams.
- Break down requirements into tasks and help maintain sprint boards and backlogs.
- Follow up with team members to ensure deadlines and deliverables are met.
- Document project updates, decisions, and action items.
- Identify blockers early and escalate them with clarity.
- Coordinate meetings, stand-ups, and sprint rituals.
- Help ensure alignment between product, design, and engineering.
- Maintain project dashboards and reporting for leadership.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience in project coordination, operations, or a related role.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Clear written and verbal communication in English.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks without losing attention to detail.
- Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
- A proactive mindset—you don’t wait to be told what’s broken.
- Understanding of both Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies.
- Experience working with tools like Jira, Linear, Notion, monday, or Slack.
Nice to Have:
- Prior experience in a product, engineering, or startup environment.
- Basic understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Interest in AI, SaaS, or tech products.
Project Manager – Animations
For a quarter of a century, the Jellycat family have brought joy, wonder and playful fun to people of all ages, in every part of the world. Utterly original and in a class of their own, they are currently among the most loved and collected toys of their kind. How has this gentle tribe endeared themselves to so many? Perhaps it is their whimsical expressions. Or the deliciously soft fabrics. Or the beautiful way in which they sit in your hand. Whatever it is, there is something magical and unmistakeable about each one of them.
As Animation Project Manager, you’ll be the operational backbone of our animation production, managing the end-to-end workflow from initial creative brief through to final asset delivery. This role sits at the intersection of creative excellence and production efficiency, coordinating multiple external studio relationships while ensuring our brand quality and timelines are maintained.
You’ll work directly with our Executive Creative Director, Creative Operations leadership and external animation partners to build scalable production systems that can support significant volume growth while working as part of the central Project Delivery Team providing to ensure governance and visibility to our Senior Leadership Team.
This role is for a highly motivated and dynamic Project Manager with experience managing multiple, complex animation projects.
This role is designed for a leader who thrives in a fast-paced environment, actively seeks out project responsibilities, and excels at bringing together diverse teams to achieve common goals. The ideal candidate will be someone who does not shy away from diving deep into project details and works closely with team members at all levels to drive project success.
You’ll be;
- Owning the end-to-end production workflow for all animation projects from brief intake through final delivery. Manage production timelines across multiple concurrent projects in Monday.com with varying complexity levels (CGI character creation, standard animations, drop-style animations, reformatting). Coordinating capacity planning across external partners ensuring optimal resource allocation.
- Serving as a primary point of contact for external animation partners on all production matters. Conducting regular capacity check-ins and production status meetings with external partners. Brief animation studios clearly on project requirements, brand guidelines, and quality expectations. Provide structured feedback and facilitate revision cycles between creative leadership and studio teams. Managing studio invoicing, purchase orders, and budget tracking.
- Leading the project from conception to completion working primarily with our Executive Creative Director and creative team, but also with the wider Jellycat business to ensure requirements are clear, documented and delivered. The individual will ensure the project is delivered on time, within scope, and budget. You need to embrace hands-on involvement in all project phases, actively engaging with team members, stakeholders, and vendors to maintain project momentum.
- Fostering a culture of collaboration within the project team. Facilitating regular team meetings and workshops to ensure open communication, problem-solving, and team alignment. Acting as a mediator to resolve conflicts and encourage a positive work environment.
- Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with our CEO, CMO and Executive Creative Director as well as all project stakeholders. Ensuring their needs and expectations are clearly understood and addressed through continuous engagement and communication.
- Proactively identifing potential project risks and issues. Leading the effort in problem-solving and decision-making processes with a collaborative approach, involving the relevant team members and stakeholders.
- Ensuring all animation output meets Jellycat’s premium brand quality standards and creative vision. Implement quality checkpoints throughout production pipeline.
- Promoting a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging feedback from team members and stakeholders. Implement best practices in project management, leveraging team insights and industry trends to enhance project efficiency and effectiveness.
- Efficiently securing and allocating project resources including cross functional team members, budgets, ensuring the right mix of skills and expertise is available to meet project demands. Actively participating in the selection and onboarding of project team members.
You’ll have;
- 5+ years in animation production coordination or project management, preferably in an agency or studio environment.
- Proven experience managing external creative partners, particularly animation studios.
- Strong understanding of animation production workflows including script development, animatic creation, set design, animation, and post-production.
- Project management expertise with demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with varying timelines.
- Experience with project management platforms (Monday.com experience highly desirable, but expertise with similar tools like Asana, Jira, or Basecamp will transfer).
- Budget management experience including tracking production costs, managing purchase orders, and financial forecasting.
- Exceptional organisational and time management capabilities.
- Outstanding communication skills with ability to translate between creative vision and production requirements.
- Proactive problem-solving with ability to identify and resolve bottlenecks before they impact timelines.
- Detail-oriented with high standards for accuracy and completeness.
- Ability to provide clear, constructive feedback to creative partners.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with competing priorities.
- Strong stakeholder management across diverse teams and seniority levels.
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
Mercor is recruiting Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants to work on a research project for one of the world’s top AI companies. This project involves using your professional experience to design questions related to your occupation as a Legal Secretary and Administrative Assistant. Applicants must:
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Have 4+ years full-time work experience in this occupation;
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Be based in the US, UK, or Canada
Here are more details about the role:
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We aim to make the hourly compensation rate offered to you competitive based on your professional background and geographic location (please note that the listed hourly compensation scale is for U.S.-based applicants and that that scale will differ depending on where a candidate is geographically based)
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This project requires that you be able to commit a minimum of 15 hours per week
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We currently estimate that this project will last through the mid 2026 and quite possibly longer. Please note that this estimate is subject to change – but if this listing is still up, then that means that the project is still running!
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Please note you will need access to a desktop or laptop computer for this project and that we cannot accept applicants who use chromebook computers
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
Contract and Payment Terms
- You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
- This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
- Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
- Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
- Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.
Consulting Experts
Mercor is partnering with a leading AI lab to engage experienced management consulting professionals on a project basis. Contractors will translate real-world consulting workflows into clear tasks, datasets, and evaluation criteria to help improve AI systems’ reasoning and problem-solving capabilities. The work is well-suited for experts who can contribute independently and collaborate asynchronously.
Key Responsibilities
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Break down end-to-end consulting workflows (problem structuring → analysis → synthesis) into task specifications and evaluation rubrics.
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Review, edit, and benchmark AI-generated outputs such as market analyses, strategy decks, operating models, and written recommendations.
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Create high-quality reference examples (issue trees, analyses, slides) that reflect real consulting standards.
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Identify gaps, errors, and weak assumptions in AI outputs; document failure modes and improvement guidelines.
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Collaborate asynchronously with researchers and other contractors using shared documents and clear written feedback.
Ideal Qualifications
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2+ years of consulting experience at a top-tier management consulting firm or well-regarded boutique.
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Strong familiarity with core consulting workflows, including problem definition, hypothesis-driven analysis, and executive-level synthesis.
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Excellent collaboration, written communication, and structured-thinking skills.
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Advanced PowerPoint and Excel; comfort with market sizing, financial/operating analysis, and qualitative research.
More About the Opportunity
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Expected commitment: 10+ hours/week.
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Deliverables-driven work with clear success criteria; support team available for inquiries and best-practice guidance.
Application Process
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Submit a brief resume or LinkedIn profile highlighting consulting background and functional expertise.
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Complete a short skills questionnaire; a time-boxed exercise may be used to scope fit.
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Mercor will review and follow up with next steps and additional project details.
We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.
Contract and Payment Terms
- You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
- This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
- Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
- Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
- Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
- Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.
About Mercor
Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.
Junior Project Manager
Are you an organised and proactive Junior Project Manager looking to step into a high-impact role within a major public sector programme? This is an excellent opportunity to support senior project managers across multiple workstreams, gaining exposure to large-scale transformation while developing your own delivery capability.We’re supporting a leading global consultancy in hiring a Junior Project Manager who can bring structure, coordination, and energy to a fast-moving programme environment.
Details
Location – Remote – Leicester / London / Manchester
Rate – up to 310/day Inside IR35 via Umbrella
Duration – Initial 6 months
Start date – ASAP
You must have lived in the UK for 5+ years and currently reside in the UK to meet security standards.
Responsibilities
- Support Senior Project Managers in coordinating and delivering multiple project workstreams.
- Maintain programme plans, RAID logs, reporting packs, and other project artefacts.
- Assist with project governance, status reporting, and documentation.
- Monitor progress against milestones and ensure dependencies are managed.
- Engage with stakeholders across technical and business teams to ensure alignment.
- Contribute to benefits tracking and ensuring programme objectives are met.
Experience required
- Public sector project or programme experience (essential).
- Working knowledge of project and programme management principles and methodologies (e.g., Agile, Waterfall, Prince2).
- Experience supporting or coordinating multiple related projects.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to produce accurate reporting and documentation.
- UK resident for 5+ years (essential).
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