Audio Growth & Partnerships Lead

Protege; New City (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege is building an AI data platform to securely source and deliver training data. The Audio vertical identifies, curates, and delivers right data and metadata for partners and model builders.

As the generalist in this nascent line, you’ll source demand, match it with supply, and move deals through the lifecycle with the GM. You’ll own outreach, data preparation, and cross‑functional coordination to scale this early business.

Qualifications

• Experience in partnerships, business development, sales, solutions, operations, or customer-facing project management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple moving pieces, drive follow-up, and own work from initial problem definition through completion.
• Strong written and verbal communication; you can make complex or incomplete information clear to partners, customers, and internal teams.
• Comfort with outbounding, building relationships, and navigating conversations where the right answer is not yet known.
• Sound judgment around prioritization, confidentiality, data rights, and when to elevate a risk.
• Interest in audio, media, speech AI, or training data. You do not need to be an audio researcher, but you should be curious enough to learn concepts such as transcripts, diarization, channel separation, language coverage, audio quality, and metadata.
• A bias to action, high ownership, and the ability to bring order to chaos without waiting for a perfect playbook.

Responsibilities

• Source, research, and qualify audio partners based on customer demand, including evaluating fit, rights, scale, language coverage, quality, and availability.
• Run partner and customer conversations, understand the underlying use case, and translate ambiguous requests into clear plans for sending sample data.
• Own the process of gathering and preparing sample data for prospective customers, including organizing audio, transcripts, metadata, and supporting context into clear customer-ready materials.
• Project-manage audio deals from feasibility through data packaging, quality review, and delivery — keeping internal and external stakeholders aligned.
• Support outbound to audio companies/model builders: develop targeted outreach, follow up persistently, and help build the vertical’s pipeline.
• Identify recurring needs and bottlenecks, then create lightweight tools, documentation, and processes that make the next customer or partner conversation or delivery faster.
• Work closely with the Audio GM, DataLab (our data researchers), forward-deployed engineers, sales, product, and legal folks to surface risks early and make sound decisions on rights, privacy, quality, and delivery tradeoffs.

Skills

Partnerships

Business Development

Sales

Solutions

Operations

Project management

Tools

Salesforce

Job description

Protege is building an AI data platform to securely source and deliver training data. The Audio vertical identifies, curates, and delivers right data and metadata for partners and model builders.

As the generalist in this nascent line, you’ll source demand, match it with supply, and move deals through the lifecycle with the GM. You’ll own outreach, data preparation, and cross‑functional coordination to scale this early business.