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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. Why Prolific? At Prolific, our product development group is a powerhouse of Engineering, Product, Data, Design, and Research - all working in lockstep. You'll thrive in cross-functional teams, each with a clear mission and the freedom to self-organize and innovate towards the best possible outcomes. We're passionate about moving fast and continuously improving, and we champion strong engineering principles and a culture of strong ownership. As an Engineering Manager, you won't just manage; you'll inspire, empower, and elevate. You'll cultivate high-performing engineers and champion good engineering practices. Working hand-in-hand with your Product Manager, you'll ensure your team is not just set up for success, but poised to deliver exceptional customer impact. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where your expertise will directly impact the technical excellence of your teams' work. You'll be instrumental in driving technical decision-making and collaboratively building scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems that power the future of AI. What You'll Be Building and Doing: Lead with Impact: Take full accountability for leading, coaching, and empowering one or more engineering teams to consistently deliver outstanding customer value. Develop and Grow Talent: Be a coach, and mentor, actively nurturing the professional growth of your engineers, including impactful hiring, onboarding, performance management, and supporting career advancement. Unblock and Accelerate: Champion a healthy and predictable pace of work by proactively planning, removing blockers, orchestrating dependencies, and fostering crystal-clear communication within and beyond your team. Strategic Partnership: Collaborate closely with product managers and your team to define both what to build and how to build it to ensure consistent and high impact pace Technical Leadership: With your team, drive the technical solution design and implementation, ensuring alignment with the overarching technical direction Sustainable Innovation: Collaborate closely with product managers and the team to manage technical debt and toil and provide support for existing systems. Implement and maintain standards for creating secure, high-performance, observable, and well tested code that ensures long-term reliability. Cultivate Excellence: Foster a powerful ownership culture characterised by DevOps practices, continuous improvement, innovation, and operational excellence Shape the Future: As a key member of the engineering leadership team, you will significantly contribute to defining and evolving Prolific's engineering practices, from our collaborative ways of working to our architectural direction. What You'll Bring to the Table: Proven Leadership: Extensive experience in engineering management and a demonstrable track record of technical leadership that inspires and delivers. Strategic Problem Solver: Exceptional problem-solving acumen coupled with strategic thinking. Clear Communicator: Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to lead diverse teams, influence stakeholders, and collaborate effectively across all levels. Technical Depth: 5+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on expertise building highly available, transactional, and distributed cloud-based applications (e.g., e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, or SaaS solutions). Passion for People Development: A genuine passion for developing others, with significant experience in managing, motivating, coaching, and mentoring high-performing individuals and teams. Bridge Builder: Fluency in translating complex technical solutions and their feasibility into clear, compelling narratives for non-technical stakeholders. Our Technology Stack (You'll be working with these technologies): Frameworks: Django Rest Framework, Serverless architectures, container-based services Join us at Prolific and play a critical role in shaping the human data infrastructure that is powering the next generation of AI innovation. Apply now and let's build the future, together. 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. By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organisation planning. Prolific's Candidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Prolific may process, where Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information. Apply for this job indicates a required field First Name Last Name Email Phone Resume/CV Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf LinkedIn Profile Website Do you currently hold the right to work in the UK? Select Do you now or will you in future require sponsorship to work in the UK? Select What is your expected annual salary in GBP? Do you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process? (If yes, please inform our Talent team) Select What is your current notice period? Are you currently located in the UK or do you plan to be based in the UK upon commencing employment? We are currently looking for a variety of Engineering Managers, some of which will lead a smaller team and act as the hands on Technical Lead for that group, and some that will lead a larger team and not act as the Technical Lead.Are your hands on engineering skills at a level where you could fulfil the role that includes acting as a Tech Lead, or would you prefer to act solely as a hands off Manager?If you believe you could do either, please indicate that below.

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 General Counsel, you will play a pivotal role at Prolific. You will lead Prolific's in-house Legal team, overseeing Legal, Risk and Compliance. You will have the opportunity to make a real impact, ensuring the delivery of sound, commercially-focused legal and compliance advice across all areas of the business. What you will do: You will be part of the Leadership Team at Prolific, building strong relationships with our Exco, and supporting Prolific's growth, whilst ensuring the business remains compliant and manages risk Legal & Compliance Strategy: Define and execute a forward-looking legal and compliance roadmap aligned with Prolific's growth objectives. Act as a strategic advisor to leadership and a key voice on the exec team, delivering proactive, commercially-focused legal and compliance guidance. Manager and Develop Our Legal & Information Security Team: Lead and develop our internal Legal team of 4. Legal & Regulatory Compliance: Ensure Prolific stays ahead of continuously evolving regulations. Anticipate legal and regulatory shifts, advising the business on implications and action. Lead the development and maintenance of scalable compliance frameworks and policies. Data protection: Ensure Prolific remains compliant with data protection laws and regulations, with particular focus on the UK, EU and US. Ensure the delivery of timely, commercially-focused advice and guidance in supporting multiple data initiatives. Risk Management: Own our enterprise risk framework, including the risk management process. Collaborate closely with the business to, supporting risk assessments, mitigation strategies, and reporting. Information Security: Lead the legal and compliance aspects of Prolific's information security programme, including ISO 27001 and SOC2 standards. Maintain Prolific's information security certifications. Closely collaborate with the tech team to ensure robust information and cyber security. Corporate Governance: Manage corporate governance, including board and shareholders approvals, company records and filings, investor ESG requests, and secretarial duties. Corporate Development: Lead legal workstreams on fundraising and M&A activity. Act as a trusted partner to the finance and exec teams on strategic transactions. Employee Share Option Scheme: Support the finance team with Prolific's share option scheme. Contracting: Own the full lifecycle of commercial contracts-drafting, negotiating, and advising at pace. Support teams across the business with pragmatic, business-first legal input. Manage customer and other agreements and implement scalable contracting processes.Lead updates and negotiations of customer-facing terms in close partnership with sales. Ensure our terms remain market-aligned, clear, and compliant. Legal Budget & External Counsel: Manage the legal budget with a sharp focus on ROI. Build strong, efficient relationships with external firms to maximize value and expertise. Team Efficiency & Business Enablement: Continuously improve how Legal partners with the business-accelerating decision-making and simplifying legal processes. Build scalable internal workflows and playbooks. Legal Tech & AI: Champion legal tech adoption, including AI-powered tools, to streamline legal operations and enable faster, smarter support at scale. What you'll bring You're an experienced legal leader with 10 years + PQE, ideally including time in a fast-paced startup or scale-up environment as General Counsel. You think strategically and deliver clear, actionable legal advice that aligns with business goals. Commercially minded and pragmatic, you know how to apply the right legal lens without losing sight of the bigger picture. You thrive in fast-moving environments, juggling multiple priorities with speed and precision. You're proactive in gathering information across the business and can drive multiple workstreams to high-quality outcomes-fast. You're a strong communicator who simplifies complex legal concepts, builds trust across teams, and collaborates effectively to shape and influence decisions. Even better if you have Experience with US law. 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. By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organisation planning. Prolific'sCandidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Prolific may process, where Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information. Apply for this job indicates a required field First Name Last Name Preferred First Name Email Phone Resume/CV Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf LinkedIn Profile LinkedIn Profile What is your expected annual salary in GBP? What is your current notice period? Do you currently hold the right to work in the UK? Select Do you now or will you in future require sponsorship to work in the UK? 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At Prolific , Our market place is rooted in academia, and that commitment runs deep. Alongside our continued work to accelerate future of AI-we're continuing to redefine how the world conducts academic research. What started as a research-driven idea has evolved into the world's most trusted infrastructure for human data. Today, tens of thousands of researchers from top universities across the globe rely on Prolific to power their work-from peer-reviewed studies to the next generation of technological breakthroughs. As we continue to scale, academia remains at the heart of everything we do. our commitment to academic researchers runs deeper than ever- exacting standards required for quality human data for online research have shaped us into the trusted infrastructure now also accelerating AI's future, bridging the gap between rigorous research and technological innovation We're doubling down on our mission to serve the academic community-deepening relationships, building smarter tools, and making high-quality human data more accessible than ever. The Role We're looking for a strategic, commercial, and data-obsessed Head of Academia to lead our efforts in one of Prolific's most important verticals: Higher Education. This is a rare opportunity to own and expand a well-established customer base in academia-while shaping how the world's best researchers engage with human data. You'll be a key driver of growth, influence product direction, and be at the intersection of customer success, sales, marketing, and strategy. You'll define and execute the go-to-market strategy, win new partnerships, and elevate our offering for academic institutions globally. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who's as comfortable closing a strategic deal as they are diving into performance metrics or crafting a compelling event strategy. If you want to make a big impact in a mission-driven, high-growth environment-and you bring both commercial ownership and deep knowledge of the academic world-we'd love to hear from you. What you'll be doing in the role Own and grow the academic customer base : Drive acquisition, retention, success and expansion of institutional and individual researcher accounts. Design and execute end-to-end growth strategies , focusing on demand generation, activation, and revenue expansion across the academic vertical. Operate in a matrix-style environment, partnering with and driving alignment across multiple areas of the business product, marketing, customer success, finance, and data to ensure cohesive strategy and flawless execution Identify trends and surface opportunities through research, interviews, and market analysis-becoming our internal expert on the evolving needs of academic researchers. Represent Prolific as a spokesperson in the Academic community through public speaking engagements, media opportunities, and industry associations. Develop and lead marketing and outreach campaigns targeting academia-think conferences, content, digital campaigns, and community engagement. Deeply understand the academic user journey , optimizing experiences and touchpoints to drive satisfaction, retention, and word-of-mouth growth. Own and track performance metrics across the funnel: acquisition, engagement, activation, satisfaction, and revenue. Experiment and iterate : Test new approaches, evaluate success with rigorous data, and scale what works. What you'll bring to the role A proven track record in a commercial or growth leadership role (e.g. Sales, Marketing, Customer Success) at a high-growth startup or scale-up. Deep understanding of the academic research ecosystem -you know the rhythms, needs, and challenges of university-based researchers and institutions. Experience leading go-to-market strategy , customer acquisition, and lifecycle marketing in a B2B or B2C context. Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex data into clear action. A bias for action: you're hands-on, scrappy when needed, and ready to roll up your sleeves to deliver results. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills-you can navigate university departments just as well as internal product and marketing teams. A genuine passion for research, science, and innovation. By submitting your application, you agree that Prolific may collect your personal data for recruiting and global organization planning. Prolific'sCandidate Privacy Notice explains what personal information Prolific may process, where Prolific may process your personal information, its purposes for processing your personal information, and the rights you can exercise over Prolific use of your personal information. Apply for this job indicates a required field First Name Last Name Preferred First Name Email Phone Resume/CV Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf Enter manually Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtf LinkedIn Profile What is your expected salary in GBP: What is your current notice period? Do you currently hold the right to work in the UK? Select Do you now or will you in future require sponsorship to work in the UK? Select

London, England, United Kingdom Team: People, Talent 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 differentiate products and models. The role We're on the hunt for a Senior Talent Consultant to support the continued commercial hiring for the next 6 months. You'll play a leading role in shaping the hiring experience as a member of the Prolific Talent Team. You'll lead on all aspects of the hiring journey from attraction through to offer and play a pivotal part in championing our culture while building our employer brand. What you'll be doing in the role Own end-to-end hiring across all commercial roles, from job creation through to offer, providing a best-in-class experience to everyone involved. Develop a deep understanding of Prolific, our product, and values to effectively articulate our mission and culture to prospective Prolificos. Be a true advisor and coach, engaging with our hiring managers to ensure that the candidate experience is an outstanding one and guiding them to make the best hiring decisions. Be an advocate for DEI, ensuring that our talent processes are fair and inclusive to all while creating diverse pipelines. Support and deliver our vision to create a world-class employer brand. Build and nurture candidate pipelines using a variety of creative channels. Continuously grow and engage your network to promote Prolific's brand. What you'll bring to the role Proven background and experience in commercial recruitment, attracting, and hiring diverse talent. Deep knowledge of recruitment practices, principles, and methods, including interviewing and assessment. A background in executing innovative sourcing strategies. A real passion and understanding for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the ability to weave this into our hiring practices. A highly collaborative approach and demonstrated ability to build credibility with your stakeholders. Innovative and scalable solutions to continuously improve our hiring experience and processes. The ability to deliver projects such as employment branding, interview training, and process improvement. Highly motivated, with a positive, pragmatic, roll-your-sleeves-up mentality. 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 breadth 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.