Strategy & Project Lead (Data Operations)

ABOUT THE ROLE

Human Archive (YC W26) is hiring someone to lead our end-to-end data annotation operations.

You will work directly with the founder to build and manage a high-performing annotator workforce for robotics data. Your job is to ensure we consistently have the right people, quality, and throughput across multiple projects running simultaneously.

This is a highly hands-on role for someone who is excellent with people, metrics, and fast-moving operations.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Recruit, evaluate, and manage high-quality data annotators
• Maintain a high bar for annotation quality and workforce performance
• Allocate annotators across multiple simultaneous projects
• Track daily throughput, quality, attendance, utilisation, and project targets
• Build dashboards and operating systems with our engineering team
• Identify bottlenecks and improve annotation workflows
• Design incentives that help teams consistently meet daily targets
• Forecast staffing requirements for upcoming projects
• Manage team leads and resolve day-to-day operational issues
• Build processes that can scale from hundreds to thousands of annotators

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Extremely good with people and frontline teams
• Strong analytical ability and comfort with metrics and dashboards
• Excellent at prioritisation and resource allocation
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple projects at once
• Creative about incentives, hiring, performance, and operations
• Clear, direct, and fast communicator
• High ownership, energy, urgency, and agency
• Comfortable working in a demanding, fast-changing startup environment

Experience at companies such as Surge AI, Scale AI, Mercor, Turing, Outlier, Remotasks, or similar workforce and data-operations businesses is a strong advantage.

We care more about your ability to execute than your degree, credentials, or years of experience.

LOCATION

On-site in Bangalore.