Strategic Projects Lead, Prolific
Managed Services
High-quality human-powered data at scale
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High-quality human-powered data at scale
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years experience in strategy, operations, consulting, product, or customer-facing delivery roles—ideally within a high-growth, data or tech-focused environment
- Strong analytical and systems thinking abilities, with a track record of designing and delivering operational processes
- Comfortable working with technical stakeholders and learning new tools, platforms, or frameworks quickly
- Skilled at translating abstract problems into structured plans, and executing with high attention to detail
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with strong project management and cross-functional influencing skills
- Excited by ambiguity, complexity, and building something new from scratch
- Curious and passionate about AI, data quality, and how humans contribute to responsible model development
Desirable
- Experience in data labeling, annotation, rater workflows, or evaluation tasks
- Knowledge of SQL, Python, or tools like Notion, Zapier,Asana & Miro
- Familiarity with LLM applications, model evaluation frameworks, or human-in-the-loop systems
- Experience managing domain experts, linguists, programmers, or other specialized raters
What the job involves
- As we scale our Managed Services division, we’re seeking a Strategic Projects Lead to scope, design, and deliver complex human data projects. You’ll work directly with leading AI companies, researchers, and product teams to set up impactful, scalable pilots—from first client conversation to task material design, rater training, and operational execution
- This is a high-ownership, cross-functional role ideal for a creative strategist and operational builder who thrives in ambiguity, loves solving complex problems, and wants to drive the future of how human data powers AI
- Own project scoping and feasibility: Engage with customers to understand their objectives, co-create study designs, assess viability, and propose clear success criteria
- Lead project setup: Draft protocols, instructions, workflows, and platform configurations tailored to the client’s use case
- Design and operationalize rater pipelines: Develop scalable onboarding, training, QA, and performance tracking processes
- Run pilots and iterate: Launch small-scale tests to evaluate feasibility, cost, quality, and throughput, then optimize for scale
- Ensure delivery excellence: Project manage execution to timelines and budgets, providing customers with proactive updates and insights
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Work with Data, Product, and Engineering to identify automation opportunities, improve task templates, and build reusable solutions
- Document learnings: Create playbooks, case studies, and standardized workflows that enhance operational readiness and reduce setup friction over time
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
$33m
Series A
Total funding: $33m
Company benefits
- Bank holiday swaps
- Company wide holidays/offsites
- Early finish Fridays
- Enhanced maternity leave – 13 weeks full paid, 26 weeks 50% pay
- Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks full paid
- Enhanced sick pay
- Mental health days
- L&D budget – £1000 per year
- Dog friendly co-working space
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
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
Vauxhall, London, UK
Leadership
Phelim Bradley
(CEO & Co-Founder)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.
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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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