--- title: 'Strategic Partnerships Manager, Wearables at Protege' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/strategic-partnerships-manager-wearables-protege-remote-v203jpgshz0v' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-11-06' --- # Strategic Partnerships Manager, Wearables at Protege - **Company:** Protege - **Location:** Remote - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-11-05 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/protege/d36978da-ddab-4952-8062-d3fe6a72b96a ## Job description Company Overview: We are building Protege to solve the biggest unmet need in AI — getting access to the right training data. The process today is time intensive, incredibly expensive, and often ends in failure. The Protege platform facilitates the secure, efficient, and privacy-centric exchange of AI training data. Solving AI’s data problem is a generational opportunity. We’re backed by world-class investors and already powering partnerships with some of the most ambitious teams in AI. The company that succeeds will be one of the largest in AI — and in tech. We’re a lean, fast-moving, high-trust team of builders who are obsessed with velocity and impact. Our culture is built for people who thrive on ambiguity, own outcomes, and want to shape the future of data and AI. The Role: Build partnerships that bring differentiated wearable and consumer health data into AI development. You will combine domain expertise with commercial judgment to qualify partners, move datasets through evaluation, and grow the value of the portfolio. ## What you will do - 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. ## What you bring - Experience in partnerships, business development, or data licensing within wearables or consumer health, with a track record of advancing external relationships into execution. - Working knowledge of continuous sensor metrics, activity and workout logs, user-reported data, and more; able to ask credible questions about quality, coverage, AI relevance, and licensing rights. Knowledge of the wearable and lifestyle data landscape and the platforms that hold differentiated datasets. - Ability to identify consent, privacy, and licensing questions and coordinate their resolution with the appropriate internal reviewers. - Strong prioritization, ownership mentality, and communication across commercial, technical, and operational teams; comfortable building structure in an early-stage environment. - Experience with healthcare data partnerships, AI data use cases, or sample data assessments. Protege Values Pass the Loved Ones’ Test We act with integrity and do the right thing — especially when it’s hard and no one is watching. Always Find a Way We are resourceful, resilient builders who solve hard problems and push through obstacles. Go Fast and Grow Fast Velocity matters. We move with urgency, learn quickly, and continuously improve as individuals and as a company. Practice Kindness and Candor We communicate directly and respectfully, building trust through honest feedback and genuine care for one another. Deliver Together We win as one team. Collaboration, accountability, and shared ownership drive our success. Own the Outcome. Hone the Craft. We take pride in our work, sweat the details, and continuously raise the bar for excellence. ## About Protege ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Protege is a platform for the secure exchange of proprietary, real-world data between data holders and AI developers, covering the full AI lifecycle from pre-training to evaluation. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A; $90M total funding) - **Headquarters**: New York City, New York, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Bobby Samuels (CEO), Travis May (Chairman), Engy Ziedan (Chief Scientific Officer), Richard Ho (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Data Infrastructure and Analytics / AI Training Data Marketplace - **Target Customers**: B2B – AI model builders (startups to enterprises) and data holders (healthcare, media, audio, video, physical intelligence companies) - **Mission**: “Building a world where the right data powers AI for the good of humanity” – curating and connecting high-quality data with expertise while protecting and fairly compensating data holders. ## Products & Services - **Protege Platform**: A marketplace and data infrastructure that enables secure, governed exchange of proprietary datasets for AI training. - **Pre-Training Datasets**: Massive, diverse real-world datasets across industries for foundation model training. - **Post-Training & Fine-Tuning Data**: Narrower, domain-specific datasets for supervised training and human feedback. - **Evaluation & Benchmarks**: Contaminated‑free, real‑world test sets (e.g., Protege Evaluation Datasets and Benchmarks for Healthcare AI) to measure model performance. - **Data Partner Revenue Program**: Monetization channel for data holders with provenance and rights protections. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$90M** across three Series A extensions (Seed: $10M led by CRV; Series A: $25M led by Andreessen Horowitz, $25M led by Footwork, $30M extension led by a16z) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, Footwork; acquired Calliope Networks (Dec 2024) - **Growth Signals**: Headcount of 63 employees (+203.7% YoY); operations in 6 countries; rapid hiring (14 open positions); active expansion into healthcare, audio, video, and spatial intelligence verticals ## Competitive Advantages - **Trust & Governance**: Built‑in rights protections, provenance tracking, and security for data holders – a key differentiator in an era of IP and compliance concerns. - **Domain Expertise**: Team of experienced startup operators and scientists with deep industry knowledge (healthcare, media, etc.). - **Curation + Scale**: Combines curated, real‑world datasets with expert oversight, bridging the gap between raw data and AI‑ready training sets. - **Early Traction**: Already serving customers across multiple high‑value domains (healthcare, media, audio, motion capture). ## Strategic Focus - **Vertical Expansion**: Hiring General Managers for healthcare, video, audio, and spatial/physical intelligence to deepen domain‑specific offerings. - **Benchmarks & Evaluation**: Developing sector‑specific evaluation datasets (e.g., healthcare) to become the standard for model testing. - **Platform Growth**: Scaling the two‑sided marketplace to attract more data holders and AI builders globally. ## Why Work Here - **Remote‑First, Locally‑Connected**: Default remote with regular company‑sponsored off‑sites for collaboration and team building. - **Competitive Pay & Equity**: Premium market salaries and ownership through equity, aligning employee growth with company success. - **Comprehensive Benefits**: Full coverage for medical, dental, and vision plans for employees and dependents. - **High‑Trust Time Off**: Flexible, impact‑driven time off policy. - **Culture & Values**: Emphasis on ownership, delivering together, ethical impact, and outcome‑focused work. Team includes early employees from Datavant, Verana Health, dbt Labs, Facebook, and Mastercard. - **Growth Opportunity**: Rapidly scaling startup with clear path to leadership roles; active hiring in engineering, research, sales, and operations. ## Sources 1. [Protege Website](https://www.withprotege.ai/) 2. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://www.linkedin.com/company/withprotege) 3. [Protege Careers Page](https://www.withprotege.ai/careers) 4. [Protege People Page](https://www.withprotege.ai/people) 5. 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