Growth Data Science & Analytics Lead, Prolific
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High-quality human-powered data at scale
Open for applications
High-quality human-powered data at scale
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership Experience: Proven experience leading a data and analytics team, ideally in a marketplace or platform business & experience managing and developing analysts and data scientists at different seniority levels
- Commercial Instinct: Strong commercial instincts — you understand how data connects to business outcomes and can communicate that to non-technical leaders
- Stakeholder Management: Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience presenting to or advising executive teams
- Analytical Rigor: Hands-on SQL proficiency — comfortable getting into the detail when needed
- Comfortable picking up mid-flight work and operating without a long handover runway
- Prior experience in a scale-up or growth-stage company is a plus
What the job involves
- Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models
- Our Growth Data Science & Analytics function sits at the heart of Prolific and owns Prolific’s growth framework - answering questions like: where are our biggest opportunities, what's constraining our growth, and where should we invest next?
- We're looking for an experienced data leader to cover maternity leave for our Growth Data Science & Analytics Lead
- This is an ex-co facing leadership role: you'll manage a team of three embedded data scientists & analysts, own the analytics roadmap across our business verticals, and be the senior data voice in cross-functional and ExCo-level conversations
- This is a rare opportunity to step into a high-impact interim leadership role in a fast-growing, data-rich marketplace business
- Team leadership & project oversight
- Lead and manage a team of three embedded data scientists & analysts
- Own weekly planning, prioritisation, and delivery oversight across the team's workstreams
- Act as line manager and primary point of escalation, supporting individual contributor development and day-to-day work
- Manage intake processes and stakeholder expectations across business verticals
- Stakeholder & ExCo reporting
- Serve as the senior analytics partner to the Executive Committee, presenting data-led insights on marketplace health, revenue performance, and growth
- Own and maintain key reporting surface across our BI infrastructure
- Translate complex analytical findings into clear, measured narratives for senior audiences
- Build trusted relationships with cross-functional partners across all functions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 2014, Prolific is a marketplace and data analysis company that provides researchers with a network of test participants. From eye-tracking to human-facing AI applications, Prolific’s network acts as both a recruiter for test participants and as a marketplace for researchers scientists to hire said participants.
Founded in 2014, it’s already used by the likes of Google, Stanford, Oxford and Kings College London Universities to test new AI products, providing “stress tests” for its clients. Prolific’s user base now counts over 2000 potential test subjects, whilst researchers leverage its network to launch surveys, tests and evaluation tasks every 2 minutes.
An indicator of Prolific’s success is maintaining of profitability for years after its initial Y Combinator investment. In 2024, it raised $32 million in Series A to maintain its healthy position. This funding will allow it to expand its operations.
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$33.8m
Series A
Total funding: $33.8m
Company benefits
- Bank holiday swaps
- Enhanced sick pay
- L&D budget – £1000 per year
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Remote Work ( Within UK or US)
Company values
- We win together
- We care deeply about our customers
- We make every minute count
- We're optimistic and find a way
- We embrace change
- We aim high
Company HQ
Kings Cross, London, UK
Leadership
Phelim Bradley
(Co-Founder & CEO)Currently also Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund. Previously Dphil at Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Bioinformatics Intern at Illumina and MPhil of Computer Biology at University of Cambridge.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Prolific
- At Prolific, we want all of our employees, researchers, and participants to be included and so we commit to having ongoing discussions about diversity and inclusion and regularly look at areas where we can improve. This policy aims to: - treat all our employees fairly and respectfully, regardless of their job status, location, or work hours ⏰ - avoid any illegal discrimination based on age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, and traveler status. These are protected by the UK Equality Act (2010), Ireland Employment Equality Act (2004), Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) at the federal level and the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) at the state level. ⚖️ - refuse to tolerate any kind of illegal discrimination 🙅🏻♀️. This includes pay and benefits, work conditions, grievance and discipline handling, termination, redundancy, parental leave, flexible working requests, employment selection, promotion, training, and other opportunities for development.
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