Participant Recruitment Partner/Sourcer, Prolific
3 Month FTC
+ Monthly performance bonus potential based on performance
High-quality human-powered data at scale
Open for applications
High-quality human-powered data at scale
101-200 employees
Open for applications
+ Monthly performance bonus potential based on performance
101-200 employees
Company mission
To accelerate human understanding.
Role
Who you are
- Proven track record in recruitment excellence, with experience attracting and engaging world-class talent in high-growth talent acquisition environments
- Background in executing innovative, high-volume sourcing strategies, delivering scalable pipelines of top-tier candidates
- Builder mindset with a passion for innovation, designing and scaling sourcing and hiring solutions that continuously elevate speed to onboard and operational efficiency
- Strong hands-on expertise with modern sourcing and outreach platforms (e.g. LinkedIn, Welcome to the Jungle), leveraging tools creatively to access hard-to-reach talent pools
- Exceptional execution skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously, deliver at pace, and thrive in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment
- Highly data-driven and commercially minded, confident using analytics and operational metrics to measure impact, optimise performance, and inform decision-making
Desirable
- Experience with global crowdsourcing or gig-economy platforms, which would add significant value
- Experience supporting AI/ML lifecycle projects, such as data labeling, annotation, or domain-specific task curation
What the job involves
- As a Participant Recruitment Partner, you will play a pivotal role in continuing the growth of Prolific's specialized participant pools
- You’ll act as a key enabler for the evergreen expansion of our expert network, as well as working closely with delivery teams to support targeted participant resourcing based on our customers' needs
- This role demands a hands-on approach to high-volume participant identification, attraction, and engagement, as well as cross-functional collaboration to meet the demands of both internal stakeholders and external clients
- Drive the identification, attraction, and engagement of top-tier, highly qualified specialist participants, building and maintaining Prolific's world-class participant pool
- Act as a trusted partner for client-specific AI delivery teams, serving as the primary point of contact for all recruitment-related operations and ensuring seamless collaboration
- Deliver exceptional results on bespoke client projects, consistently meeting or exceeding ambitious project goals
- Maintain and elevate the quality, diversity, and readiness of Prolific’s participant pools, optimising for customer needs and high-impact outcomes
- Design and manage robust verification processes for domain experts and AI taskers, guaranteeing their skills and qualifications align with client-specific requirements
- Continuously refine recruitment, onboarding, and activation funnels, using data-driven insights to boost participant retention and engagement
- Monitor and analyse candidate engagement and quality metrics, translating insights into actionable improvements that maximise impact and operational excellence, both quantitatively and qualitatively
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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2023
$33.2m
Series A
Total funding: $33.2m
Company benefits
- Bank holiday swaps
- Enhanced sick pay
- L&D budget – £1000 per year
- 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
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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