Product Lead

Job Description

Product Lead

Team: Product

Prolific

Prolific is not just another player in the AI space – we are the architects of the human data infrastructure that's reshaping the landscape of AI development. In a world where foundational AI technologies are increasingly commoditized, it's the quality and diversity of human-generated data that truly differentiates products and models.

The Role

As our new Product Lead at Prolific, you will take your place as one of the leaders of Prolific’s Product, Research, and Design Group.

Impact: You will be the Product person responsible for the impact and outcomes of the Human Data Product Group, working on career-defining opportunities to change the make-up of the AI agents and intelligences that will come to act on behalf of our species…no big deal! You’ll report into Prolific’s VP of Product, and will work cross-functionally, as the Human Data space at Prolific is made up of several strategic areas of the organization.

Domain: You’ll bring experience building AI systems or helping others build AI systems, and will be able to dive deep into the human-powered workflows of the world’s AI training infrastructure. This domain is high-stakes and fast-evolving – we are looking for someone who learns exceptionally fast, drives urgency, and embraces change by default.

Responsibilities: You will have people management responsibilities over your Group’s Product Managers. In addition, you will be responsible for product managing a stream-aligned team of your own.

Culture: Building on our Prolific Principles, we expect colleagues in the Product, Research, and Design Group to demonstrate reliability, grit, diplomacy, a bias for action, and a dogged focus on value – you’ll be a champion of these behaviors yourself, and in the culture of your team. Accountability and autonomy are two sides of the same coin, and we expect you to demonstrate both.

What you'll be doing

• You’ll bring your varied Product career experience to bear to solve user problems and create new opportunities for users to fall in love with Prolific.
• You’ll build on our great roots to help elevate Prolific’s Product Management team into a world-leading one, known for their approach to making bets and building products that customers love and which drive commercial value for our business.
• You’ll spend a lot of your time coaching behaviors and skills, and modeling game-changing approaches by doing.
• You will be an unblocker and simplifier of complexity: colleagues will bring you problems, and emerge optimistic, with solutions.
• You’ll partner productively with Product Design, User Research, Analytics, and Engineering to find ways to deliver products in a test-learn-iterate fashion.

What you’ll bring

• An extensive and varied track record, and ability to teach and inspire others.
• An understanding, ideally via demonstrable experience, of the different needs businesses and enterprises have when it comes to their software products and contracts (B2B) vs what individual consumers expect (B2C).
• Competence or expertise in most or all of:
• The industry’s prevailing Product tools, models, and methodologies, hands-on experience of Agile frameworks, Continuous Discovery, CI/CD, JTBD frameworks, thin or vertical slicing, self-organizing teams, Team Topologies, advocacy of ‘thinking in bets,’ test-learn-iterate loops, and Growth loops / Growth hacking.
• Strong data literacy and true data-driven decision-making and the ability to coach this.
• People management or extensive coaching experience, with a track record of success in developing world-class technologists.
• A storyteller’s flair, a player/coach instinct, belief in ‘strong opinions weakly held’, personal accountability, and a relentless can-do attitude.

Even better if you have

• Experience teaching others at scale.
• Scale-up or startup experience.
• AI/ML training / AI/ML development experience.
• A track record of giving back to your Product community.

Please expect to hear from us the week commencing 6th of January. Thank you for your patience. Happy Holidays!

Why Prolific is a great place to work

We've built a unique platform that connects researchers and companies with a global pool of participants, enabling the collection of high-quality, ethically sourced human behavioral data and feedback. This data is the cornerstone of developing more accurate, nuanced, and aligned AI systems.

We believe that the next leap in AI capabilities won't come solely from scaling existing models, but from integrating diverse human perspectives and behaviors into AI development. By providing this crucial human data infrastructure, Prolific is positioning itself at the forefront of the next wave of AI innovation – one that reflects the breath and the best of humanity.

Working for us will place you at the forefront of AI innovation, providing access to our unique human data platform and opportunities for groundbreaking research. Join us to enjoy a competitive salary, benefits, and remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture.

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