Lead, Human Data Projects for AI Training

Speedrun Talent Network; New York (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege is seeking an early-career project manager to own human data projects from start to finish. You will scope with teams, design tasks, staff annotators and vendor partners, manage timelines and budgets, and ensure quality before delivering results to customers.

You will work with researchers and vendors, track throughput and costs, handle sensitive health information under strict security, and be ready to travel on short notice.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years in consulting, finance, a startup, or another operationally intense environment where you owned complex projects with real stakes. Strong new grads with that kind of experience are welcome.
• 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.
• Catch 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

Project management

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Python

SQL

Job description

Protege is seeking an early-career project manager to own human data projects from start to finish. You will scope with teams, design tasks, staff annotators and vendor partners, manage timelines and budgets, and ensure quality before delivering results to customers.

You will work with researchers and vendors, track throughput and costs, handle sensitive health information under strict security, and be ready to travel on short notice.