Product Lead (12 month FTC with possible route to FTE)

This is a 12 month fixed-term contract (FTC) with potential to flip to a full-time employment offer subject to role performance and business need.

As our Product Lead for Participants at Prolific, you will lead strategy and execution for a collection of crossfunctional product teams looking after our participants' experiences and authenticity, both in our global marketplace and in our more dedicated expert network, as well as platform services that power our participant models.

You'll oversee our participant-facing and internal participant management products (spanning both B2C products and platform / technical products) and will co-own and co-execute with teams like Human Data Operations, AI Engineering, and Support on both short- and long-term growth goals and enablement for Frontier AI Lab requests. You'll report to our VP of Product and work closely with a world-class team of product-minded software engineers, AI engineers and scientists, designers, data scientists, user researchers, and other product people across the Participants Group.

In addition to owning overall strategic and roadmap accountability for your group, you will be hands-on as the day-to-day product manager for at least one of your teams. You'll also have people management responsibilities for product managers in your Group. Strong peer-to-peer bridge-building, computational thinking, conceptual clarity, and the ability to make tricky tradeoffs in complex prioritisation landscapes are key.

Our Product Team at Prolific indexes heavily on drive, commercial acumen, and pragmatism. We expect you to demonstrate reliability, grit and bravery, trustworthiness, and a bias for action. We'd love for you to model these behaviors within the team. You'll be given a lot of trust and autonomy in return, as is always the case within Product at Prolific.

What you'll be doing

• You'll bring your rich and varied product career to bear to solve tricky user problems and create new opportunities for our users who do data collection on Prolific (that's both external and internal users!) to fall in love with the experience of using 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 behaviours and skills, and modeling game-changing approaches by directly doing.
• You will be a swift unblocker and simplifier of complexity: colleagues will bring you problems, and emerge optimistic, and with clarity.
• You'll move through the world in close collaboration with your engineering, design, and data counterparts, and you'll all share user research, delivery, and analysis responsibilities.

What you'll bring

• You'll bring your rich and varied product career to bear to solve tricky user problems and create new moments of joy and attachment for our users who participate on Prolific – both 'pocket money' participants around the world and deeply skilled experts working on AI training.
• You'll build extensively for internal use cases and users, including in participant modelling platforms and tools for our Human Data Ops team.
• You will be a simplifier of complexity and swift unblocker: colleagues will bring you problems, and emerge optimistic, and with clarity.
• You'll build on our great roots to help elevate Prolific's Product Management team into a world-leading one, known for their commercially driven and hands-on approach to making bets and building products that customers love and which drive value for our business.
• You'll spend a lot of your time coaching behaviours and skills, and modeling game-changing approaches by directly doing.
• You'll move through the world in close collaboration with your engineering, design, ops, and data counterparts, and you'll all share user research, delivery, and analysis responsibilities.

Even better if you have

• Scale-up or startup experience.
• AI training or AI development experience.
• A track record of giving back to your Product community.

Additional compensation on top of salary may be available, dependent on experience and performance.