Audio Media Partnerships Lead

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.

Role Overview:

We're hiring an Audio Media Partnerships Lead to grow Protege's network of content owners and expand the foundation of our licensing business. This is a relationship-driven, mission-critical role for someone who understands the audio media ecosystem and is excited to bring high-value content into the future of AI.

You will identify, engage, and secure partnerships with rights holders across a diverse range of audio content — podcasts, audiobooks, conversational audio, industry-specific audio, and multilingual content. You'll sell partners on Protege's vision, structure mutually beneficial licensing agreements, and serve as their trusted point of contact as their content becomes part of transformative AI products.

This role will be based in the United States.

Key Responsibilities:

Partnership Development

- Identify high-value audio content owners across formats — podcasts, audiobooks, conversational audio, vertical-specific recordings (legal, medical, financial, technical, and more), foreign language content, and UGC audio — that align with Protege's data and licensing priorities

- Craft and execute strategies to win these partners and bring them into the Protege network...