Product Lead for Participants (12 Month FTC to FTE)

Prolific - UK Job Board?; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in AI human data is looking for a Product Lead to guide strategy and execution for cross-functional product teams. The role involves overseeing participant experiences and managing relationships with engineering and design teams. Candidates should have strong product management skills and a proven ability to solve complex user problems. Competitive salary and benefits offered, alongside a mission-driven culture.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Remote working

Mission-driven culture

Qualifications

• Rich and varied product career with experience in B2C and platform products.
• Ability to solve tricky user problems and create opportunities.
• Track record of building products that drive commercial value.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and execution for cross‑functional product teams.
• Oversee participant-facing and internal management products.
• Manage relationships with engineering, design, and data teams.

Skills

Product management

Coaching and mentoring

Computational thinking

Team collaboration

Job description

Product Lead for Participants (12 Month FTC to FTE)

London, UK

Team: Product

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.

This is a 12 month fixed-term contract (FTC) with potential to convert to a full-time employment offer subject to role performance and business need.

As our Product Lead for Participants at Prolific, you will lead strategy and execution for a collection of cross‑functional product teams looking after our participants’ experiences and authenticity, both in our global marketplace and in our more dedicated expert network, as well as platform services that power our participant models.

You’ll oversee our participant-facing and internal participant management products (spanning both B2C products and platform / technical products) and will co‑own and co‑execute with teams like Human Data Operations, AI Engineering, and Support on both short‑ and long‑term growth goals and enablement for Frontier AI Lab requests. You’ll report to our VP of Product and work closely with a world‑class team of product‑minded software engineers, AI engineers and scientists, designers, data scientists, user researchers, and other product people across the Participants Group.

In addition to owning overall strategic and roadmap accountability for your group, you will be hands‑on as the day‑to‑day product manager for at least one of your teams. You’ll also have people management responsibilities for product managers in your Group. Strong peer‑to‑peer bridge‑building, computational thinking, conceptual clarity, and the ability to make tricky tradeoffs in complex prioritisation landscapes are key.

Our Product Team at Prolific indexes heavily on drive, commercial acumen, and pragmatism. We expect you to demonstrate reliability, grit and bravery, trustworthiness, and a bias for action. We’d love for you to model these behaviours within the team. You’ll be given a lot of trust and autonomy in return, as is always the case within Product at Prolific.

What you’ll be doing

• You’ll bring your rich and varied product career to bear to solve tricky user problems and create new opportunities for our users who do data collection on Prolific (both external and internal users!) to fall in love with the experience of using Prolific.
• You’ll build on our great roots to help elevate Prolific’s Product Management team into a world‑leading one, known for their approach to making bets and building products that customers love and which drive commercial value for our business.
• You’ll spend a lot of your time coaching behaviours and skills, and modelling game‑changing approaches by directly doing.
• You will be a swift unblocker and simplifier of complexity: colleagues will bring you problems, and you’ll emerge optimistic, and with clarity.
• You’ll move through the world in close collaboration with your engineering, design, and data counterparts, and you’ll all share user research, delivery, and analysis responsibilities.

What you’ll bring

• You’ll bring your rich and varied product career to bear to solve tricky user problems and create new moments of joy and attachment for our users who participate on Prolific – both ‘pocket money’ participants around the world and deeply skilled experts working on AI training.
• You’ll build extensively for internal use cases and users, including in participant modelling platforms and tools for our Human Data Ops team.
• You will be a simplifier of complexity and swift unblocker: colleagues will bring you problems, and you’ll emerge optimistic, and with clarity.
• You’ll build on our great roots to help elevate Prolific’s Product Management team into a world‑leading one, known for their commercially driven and hands‑on approach to making bets and building products that customers love and which drive value for our business.
• You’ll spend a lot of your time coaching behaviours and skills, and modelling game‑changing approaches by directly doing.
• You’ll move through the world in close collaboration with your engineering, design, ops, and data counterparts, and you’ll all share user research, delivery, and analysis responsibilities.

Even better if you have

• Scale‑up or startup experience.
• AI training or AI development experience.
• A track record of giving back to your Product community.

Why Prolific is a great place to work

We’ve built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high‑quality, ethically sourced human behavioural data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.

We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won’t come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviours into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.

Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission‑driven culture.

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