Strategic Partnerships Manager, Wearables

The role

You will build partnerships to bring wearable and consumer health data into AI development. You will qualify partners, assess dataset utility, and grow the portfolio value.

What you will do

• Qualify wearable device makers, consumer health apps, and other data owners.
• Assess dataset usefulness including sensor signals, sampling frequency, and coverage.
• Coordinate NDAs, representative samples, and DataLab review.
• Translate findings into partner priorities and next steps.
• Work with Commercial on pricing, licensing structures, and statements of work.
• Coordinate activation with Healthcare Operations and Solutions.
• Maintain trusted partner relationships.
• Surface underused data assets to internal teams.
• Develop partnerships that address customer demand and portfolio gaps.

Required qualifications

• Experience in partnerships, business development, or data licensing within wearables or consumer health.
• Track record of advancing external relationships into execution.
• Working knowledge of continuous sensor metrics, activity and workout logs, and user-reported data.
• Knowledge of the wearable and lifestyle data landscape and platforms holding differentiated datasets.
• Ability to identify consent, privacy, and licensing questions and coordinate resolution.
• Strong prioritization, ownership mentality, and communication across commercial, technical, and operational teams.
• Comfortable building structure in an early-stage environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with healthcare data partnerships
• Experience with AI data use cases
• Experience with sample data assessments

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 backed by world-class investors.