[Hiring] Product Manager - Privacy, Rights & Trust @Protege

Role Description

We’re hiring a Product Manager - Privacy, Rights & Trust to own a high-impact, 0-to-1 product value stream at Protege. This is a senior product role responsible for the vision, roadmap, and execution of our privacy and data trust capabilities.

• The scope spans three interconnected problems:
  • Translating research into product
  • Building the right vendor and partner network
  • Ensuring what we build is credible with customers, data partners, and third-party experts
• Success in this role means choosing the right first wedge, scoping it with discipline, and building a product direction that is not just functional, but trusted.

What You’ll Do

• Own the privacy product from discovery through execution
• Drive discovery to identify where Protege can create the most meaningful privacy and trust capabilities across different data types and customer contexts
• Synthesize signals from customers, data partners, and internal teams to define what should be built first and why
• Take the first wedge from problem definition to pilot-ready scope
• Build and manage the vendor and partner network
  • Maintain a current view of the privacy-preserving tooling and partner landscape, including strengths, limits, cost, and modality fit
  • Use that landscape knowledge to make principled build-versus-buy decisions rather than defaulting to familiar tools or one-off requests
  • Structure external relationships in a way that preserves flexibility as requirements evolve
• Translate research into product
  • Partner closely with Data Lab to identify which privacy-related research directions have real near-term product potential
  • Decide what is robust enough to operationalize, what needs more validation, and what is promising but not yet product-ready
  • Build the bridge from proof-of-concept to a capability we can deliver at scale
• Navigate a complex external stakeholder map
  • Build credibility with customers, data partners, and third-party certifiers who care about how data is handled and what claims Protege can responsibly make
  • Communicate clearly to different audiences without over-claiming or talking past their real concerns
  • Bring external feedback back into product scope in a form that helps the team make better decisions
• Make and defend scoping calls
  • Hold disciplined focus in a problem space that can expand infinitely across modalities, regulations, and risk tolerances
  • Know which problem to solve first, make that case clearly, and resist broadening scope before the foundation is proven

What Success Looks Like

• 30 days: Define the problem space
  • Build a working picture of the most promising privacy opportunities, the current research landscape, and the external stakeholders that matter
  • Create early clarity on what first wedge is most credible and why
• 60 days: Choose the first wedge
  • Drive toward a focused build recommendation, with build-versus-buy logic, research-readiness assessment, and clear scope boundaries
  • Show good judgment about what Protege should pursue now versus what should wait
• 90 days: Operationalize the direction
  • Translate the chosen direction into an execution plan with metrics, dependencies, and a credible external narrative
  • Establish a product rhythm that connects research, partner evaluation, and customer credibility to roadmap execution

Qualifications

• 5-8 years of PM experience, ideally in privacy, trust, data governance, or another trust-sensitive product area
• Experience taking a 0-to-1 product through early-stage discovery and scoping in a regulated or credibility-sensitive domain
• Enough privacy or data governance depth to engage seriously with vendors, researchers, and certifiers without relying on buzzwords or privacy theater
• A rigorous build-versus-buy mindset and strong judgment about partner ecosystems in fast-moving technical domains
• Comfort working at the research-product boundary and helping determine what is robust enough to operationalize
• Credibility with external stakeholders and the communication range to represent Protege clearly without over-claiming
• A high bar for precision in writing, scoping, and stakeholder communication

Bonus if you also have:

• Experience evaluating or integrating third-party privacy or data transformation tools
• Prior work at a company that licenses or commercializes data as a product, or experience with certification or audit processes
• Experience taking a research-derived capability from prototype to commercial offering, especially across regulated industries

What this role is not

• We are not looking for a privacy compliance officer or a legal specialist. Regulatory awareness is useful context; it is not the job.
• We are not looking for someone who needs the problem fully defined before they can start. Discovery and scoping are part of the remit.
• We are not looking for a vendor manager. The partner network is an input into product strategy, not the strategy itself.

Working with Protege

• We move fast - thoughtfully.
• Speed matters in what we’re building, and so does intention. We are biased toward action and always learning.
• We’re a lean, high-trust team.
• Everyone has real ownership. Clarity and autonomy drive our best work.
• We take our work seriously, not ourselves.
• We solve hard problems with humility and celebrate wins - big and small.
• We’re kind, direct, and inclusive.
• We give feedback early and often, with the goal of helping one another grow.
• We’re builders at heart.
• Every person at Protege is hands-on, resourceful, and focused on creating momentum.