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Protagonist

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protagonist.com • HQ: Washington, United States • Venture - Series Unknown 2018 • Likely startup • New
HQ: Washington, United States • Venture - Series Unknown 2018 • Likely startup • New
Actively hiring
Social Media Analytics & Listening
Market Research
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Funding and backers

Total raised
$1
1 round on record
Latest round
$1
Venture round · Jul 2018 · 8 yr ago
The money's age
Long since its last round
98 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
0/100
no fresh signals
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jul 19, 2018 Raised a round Venture round $1 · SEC Form D
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 4%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jul 2018 $1 — SEC Form D
Registers and programsofficial lists and records that name the company
Legal entity Protagonist Technology, LLC SEC Form D
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Rita ParhadExecutive Officer, DirectorSEC Form D
Bryan PelleyExecutive OfficerSEC Form D

Overview

Protagonist is a communications analytics company whose Narrative Analytics platform quantitatively analyzes open-source media to deliver strategic recommendations and executive communication strategies for mission-driven clients. Its vacancies include machine learning engineers, computational social scientists and national security communications leads requiring security clearance. The company is headquartered in Washington, United States.

Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Protagonist over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
40
Postings analysed
4
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
Django
Metaflow
Celery
PyTorch
Databases
ElasticSearch
OpenSearch
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
AWS
AWS Bedrock
Apache Kafka
Kubernetes
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Protagonist tech stack 40 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

People

Rita Parhad
Executive Officer, Director
SEC Form D
Bryan Pelley
Executive Officer
SEC Form D
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
50/100
Stable
Open positions
4
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
102 days
faster than 13% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
AI/ML
50% ▼
Backend
50% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Columbia Oct 2026
Removed Vector from stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Washington
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Washington United States
HQ
DC Office
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for Communications, AI/ML, Backend
seen since May 2026 job postings
Columbia United States
Sales office
4 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 50% engineering
hires for Communications, AI/ML, Backend
seen since May 2026
San Francisco United States
Regional office
SF Office
careers board

Jobs

≈ $132k – $241k per year (Estimated) • In office • Secret • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Washington • Columbia
Python
TypeScript
Django
Celery
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
OpenSearch
AI/ML
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
NLP
AWS Bedrock
LLM
RAG
Metaflow
Tool Use
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Argo Workflows
Management
Agile
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≈ $133k – $254k per year (Estimated) • In office • Secret • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Washington • Columbia
Python
Django
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
OpenSearch
AI/ML
MLFlow
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
Multimodal AI
NLP
NER
AWS Bedrock
PyTorch
LLM
RAG
Hallucination
Hugging Face
Metaflow
Machine Learning
DevOps
Rest API
Terraform
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Argo Workflows
Amazon EKS
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All 2 jobs at Protagonist salaries, cities, levels and how long each has been open

Financials

Total raised
$1
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2018 $1 Details