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Prolific is building human data infrastructure for AI innovation. The company provides high-quality, ethically curated data to train next-generation AI models through a global participant platform.
You will own end-to-end execution of large-scale video, audio, and multimodal data collection programmes—capturing and delivering thousands of hours of natural human activity through body-worn cameras, wearable devices, and other recording hardware. This is a hands-on, highly operational role that combines technical expertise, production management, and commercial acumen.
Key responsibilities:
- Own large-scale video, audio, and multimodal collections from client brief through onsite production, data processing, and final delivery
- Design collection operations across participants, activities, locations, recording hardware, field teams, vendors, logistics, and quality controls
- Turn activity requirements into natural, repeatable collection scenarios and participant protocols that capture authentic behavior
- Translate technical specifications into capture protocols covering video/audio quality, device configuration, synchronization, metadata, and acceptance criteria
- Own programme economics: bottom-up costing, cost per accepted hour, collection yield, rejection and rework, hardware utilization, and margin
- Run pilots and quality gates, resolving technical and operational issues before scaling successful methodologies
- Lead client delivery, making clear recommendations on trade-offs between quality, coverage, timeline, cost, and operational feasibility
You must be equally credible reviewing technical capture specifications, running a production site, working through programme economics, and presenting to clients.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Significant experience owning complex video/audio data collection, technical production, or real-world capture programmes at scale—including the physical operation, not just project coordination
- Experience running onsite or field-based operations involving participants, physical locations, recording equipment, and production or field teams
- Hands-on experience with video/audio capture and recording hardware, with strong understanding of resolution, frame rate, audio quality, device configuration, multi-camera synchronization, and data integrity
- Experience translating technical or research specifications into participant protocols, production workflows, and measurable quality and acceptance criteria
- Commercial ownership of operational programmes, including bottom-up costing, forecasting, and financial impact of rejection and rework
- Experience delivering at scale against defined quality, diversity, and acceptance requirements while working directly with clients or senior stakeholders
PREFERRED:
- Experience collecting human video, audio, or multimodal data for AI/ML, computer vision, robotics, or embodied AI
- Experience with egocentric or first-person video, body-worn or wearable cameras, and multi-camera recording
- Experience coordinating controlled filming environments, participant recruitment, permits, equipment, and external production vendors
- Experience working with Product or Engineering teams on data ingest, metadata, file formats, batch processing, or data transfer
- Experience taking a new collection methodology from pilot through to thousands of hours of production data
