Human Data Project Lead

The role

You will own human data projects from start to finish. This includes scoping, designing tasks, staffing, and managing budgets and timelines to deliver results for customers.

What you will do

• Own human data projects end to end
• Scope projects with requesting teams and set timelines and budgets
• Design and pilot tasks and instructions
• Staff projects across in-house annotators and partner vendors
• Manage vendor relationships day to day
• Run calibration before production
• Track throughput, cost and quality by annotator and vendor
• Report progress to leadership every week
• Catch and fix problems early
• Handle sensitive data under strict security procedures

Required qualifications

• One to three years in consulting, finance, a startup, or another operationally intense environment where you owned complex projects with real stakes
• Strong analytical skills, with instincts for statistics
• Comfort and experience with agentic coding/work tools
• Willingness to learn new tools
• Comfort working directly with demanding stakeholders, including researchers and outside partners
• Clear, fast written communication
• Authorization to work in the U.S. as a W2 employee

Nice to have

• Experience running data annotation, labeling or AI training data projects
• Healthcare, clinical research or HIPAA-regulated work
• Experience managing contractors, vendors or freelancers
• Python or SQL

About the company

Protege is building a platform to facilitate the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data. The company is a lean, fast-moving team of builders.