Audio Growth & Partnerships Lead

Protege; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege is building a platform to securely and efficiently exchange AI training data. We are seeking a generalist for our Audio vertical to identify customer demand, align it with high-quality audio supply, and move deals through the lifecycle with the GM.

You will help shape the direction of the nascent business line, manage data deliveries, and advocate for product features for our partners. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery, risk awareness, and clear

Qualifications

• Experience in partnerships, business development, sales, solutions, operations, or customer-facing project management.

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/BD/sales

Job description

Protege is building a platform to securely and efficiently exchange AI training data. We are seeking a generalist for our Audio vertical to identify customer demand, align it with high-quality audio supply, and move deals through the lifecycle with the GM.

You will help shape the direction of the nascent business line, manage data deliveries, and advocate for product features for our partners. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure timely delivery, risk awareness, and clear