Business Development Representative

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:

Our Business Development Representative is responsible for building a high-quality healthcare pipeline through disciplined, insight-led outbound prospecting. Focusing on organizations that provide real-world data for model development, you’ll run targeted sequences, qualify opportunities rigorously, and be responsible for daily prospecting execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain a focused Healthcare ICP target list. Avoid random outreach

• Run daily outbound sequences (email, LinkedIn, calls) to generate qualified meetings

• Prospect into Protege’s core wedge: healthcare real-world data for AI model development, not generic healthcare SaaS

• Qualify fast (use case, data needed, timeline, stakeholders, success criteria) and disqualify quickly

• Deliver clean handoffs with crisp notes that accelerate next steps

• Partner with Marketing (and Demand Gen) to iterate messaging and turn winning plays into a repeatable outbound engine

• Keep pipeline hygiene tight and report what’s working weekly

• Build fluency in healthcare data and AI constraints (privacy, de-ID expectations, provenance) to sound credible with technical buyers

What Success Looks like:

• 30 days: Learn the Healthcare motion + start producing

  • Learn Protege’s healthcare positioning, core use cases, and target personas. Build a clean outbound workflow: target account list, sequences, call talk tracks, and daily activity targets. Begin consistent outbound execution and start booking initial qualified meetings

• 60 days: Run repeatable outbound plays + tighten conversion

  • Operate as a quota-bearing Healthcare BDR with steady weekly output. Refine ICP targeting and messaging based on results and feedback from Sales/GM. Lock qualification criteria and handoff rules, and document 1–2 outbound plays (targeting + messaging + sequence + talk track) that can be reused

• 90 days: Scale what works + make pipeline predictable

  • Scale the highest-performing outbound plays while improving meeting quality (fewer bad-fit meetings). Improve conversion (meeting → opportunity) and show rates. Deliver a simple 90-day retro with what worked, what did not, and the next 1–2 experiments to run, plus any enablement/tooling gaps needed to hit pipeline goals

What you bring:

• Proven ability to generate net-new pipeline through high-volume, high-quality outbound prospecting, and consistently convert outreach into qualified meetings

• Track record of building and executing a focused account plan, including tight ICP targeting, crisp prioritization, and disciplined follow-through

• Demonstrated skill qualifying complex B2B opportunities, including mapping stakeholders, clarifying use cases, and identifying clear next steps and disqualifiers early

• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to translate technical or nuanced offerings into simple, compelling outreach that resonates with busy buyers

• Operational rigor in CRM and pipeline management, including clean activity logging, accurate stage hygiene, and weekly reporting on what is working and what is not

Working with Protege:

• We move fast — thoughtfully
  Speed matters in what we’re building, but so does intention. We’re 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

• We grow fast — together
  You’ll be surrounded by people who care about impact, who challenge you to think bigger, and who are genuinely excited about what comes next
  

Why Protege:

• Work with leading health systems, aggregators, and AI developers redefining data collaboration
  

• Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package