Remote Wearables Data Partnerships Lead

Protege; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Protege is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Manager focused on wearables and consumer health data. This remote, full-time role partners with healthcare teams to qualify data sources, evaluate dataset quality, and drive licensing and activation across commercial and operations functions.

You will maintain relationships with data owners, navigate consent and licensing questions, and shape the portfolio to meet customer demand while accelerating data-driven AI development.

Qualifications

• Experience in partnerships, business development, or data licensing within wearables or consumer health.
• Knowledge of continuous sensor metrics, activity logs, user-reported data, and AI data relevance.
• Ability to identify consent, privacy, and licensing questions and coordinate their resolution with internal reviewers.
• Strong prioritization, ownership mentality, and communication across commercial, technical, and operational teams.
• Experience with healthcare data partnerships, AI data use cases, or sample data assessments.

Responsibilities

• Qualify wearable device makers, consumer health apps, and other data owners across heart monitoring, fitness, sleep, nutrition, and metabolic health.
• Assess what makes each dataset useful: sensor signals, sampling frequency, longitudinal coverage, device consistency, missing data, and available clinical or user-reported context.
• Coordinate NDAs, representative samples, and DataLab review; translate findings into clear partner priorities and next steps.
• Work with Commercial on pricing, licensing structures, and statements of work, and coordinate activation with Healthcare Operations and Solutions.
• Maintain trusted partner relationships, surface underused data assets to internal teams, and develop partnerships that address customer demand and portfolio gaps.

Skills

Partnerships

Business development

Data licensing

Wearables

Healthcare partnerships

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Protege is seeking a Strategic Partnerships Manager focused on wearables and consumer health data. This remote, full-time role partners with healthcare teams to qualify data sources, evaluate dataset quality, and drive licensing and activation across commercial and operations functions.

You will maintain relationships with data owners, navigate consent and licensing questions, and shape the portfolio to meet customer demand while accelerating data-driven AI development.