Strategic Account Manager

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.

About the Role

The Strategic Account Manager owns one of the most consequential commercial relationships at Protege: th Foundation labs and Frontier AI builders — organizations like OpenAI, Meta, Google, Apple, and Anthropic — that are defining what AI becomes.

This is not a conventional sales role. A SAM's job is not to simply to close a series of unrelated deals. A SAM's job is to engineer high-value relationships and drive unimpeachable value, en route to driving significant GMV for Protege. You are the primary commercial owner of a small number of accounts that represent tens of millions of dollars of annual revenue potential — and the relationships that make Protege's broader business possible.

You will work in close partnership with DataLab researchers, Product Success, and Partnerships to translate complex, multi-modal data needs into real solutions — often before our customers fully know what they need. You understand how foundation models are built, what researchers care about, and how to show up as a trusted partner rather than a vendor. You think in multi-year relationship arcs, not quarterly close dates.

What You'll Do

• Own a portfolio of 2–4 foundation lab or frontier AI acc...