Healthcare Data Programs Lead

Protege; New York (NY); 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 seek an early-career professional to own human data projects from scope to delivery, coordinating annotators and vendors, and ensuring quality and timelines.

You’ll work with researchers and external partners to design tasks, calibrate work, and manage sensitive data, with occasional on-site travel. You’ll join a lean, fast-moving team that values velocity, accountability, and impact, and you’ll grow quickly

Qualifications

• One to three years in consulting, finance, a startup, or another operationally intense environment where you owned complex projects with real stakes.
• Strong analytical skills, with instincts for statistics.
• Comfort and experience with agentic coding/work tools, willingness to learn new ones.
• Comfort working directly with demanding stakeholders, including researchers and outside partners.
• The judgment to notice when something is off and the instinct to raise it early rather than guess.
• Clear, fast written communication.
• Authorization to work in the U.S. as a W2 employee (required for access to protected health information).

Responsibilities

• Own human data projects end to end: scope them with the requesting team, set timelines and budgets, and deliver on them.
• Design tasks and instructions with the requesting team, and pilot them on a small batch before anything scales.
• Staff projects across our in-house annotators and partner vendors, and manage those vendor relationships day to day.
• Run calibration before production. Every annotator passes a known-answer test before their work counts, and anyone who doesn't gets feedback and a retry.
• Track throughput, cost and quality by annotator and vendor, and report progress to leadership every week.
• Catches problems early (an annotator drifting, a vendor slipping, an instruction that isn't working) and fix them before they reach the customer.
• Handle sensitive data, including protected health information, under strict security procedures.
• Travel on short notice when a project needs someone on site.
• Make every project easier to run than the last one.

Skills

Analytical skills

Statistics intuition

Written communication

Stakeholder management

Attention to quality

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Protege is building a platform to securely and efficiently exchange AI training data. We seek an early-career professional to own human data projects from scope to delivery, coordinating annotators and vendors, and ensuring quality and timelines.

You’ll work with researchers and external partners to design tasks, calibrate work, and manage sensitive data, with occasional on-site travel. You’ll join a lean, fast-moving team that values velocity, accountability, and impact, and you’ll grow quickly