Strategic Project Lead, Robotics

About the Role

Silicon Valley’s leading AI companies partner with us to scale high-quality data operations. As an SPL on robotics, you will:

• Realize the data requests of robotics AI lab customers

• Drive the tactical execution of data collection across a growing network of commercial partner businesses.

• Own the throughput, quality, and coverage of what those sites produce, and hit supply targets against a demanding forecast.

• Build deep client relationships with researchers at top AI labs.

• Ensure flawless operational execution under demanding timelines.

This is a hands-on operations role for candidates excited by process optimization, rapid iteration, and high-intensity problem solving. We're an early-stage startup that operates with intensity. That means occasionally being responsive on weekends and always holding a high bar for output. The upside — performance incentives, career trajectory, and meaningful equity — reflects that.

What You'll Do

Operational Excellence

• Design and manage the end-to-end collection pipeline, from site onboarding through capture, quality review, and delivery-ready data

• Diagnose bottlenecks, restructure workflows, and implement solutions that improve quality, throughput, and cost-efficiency

• Examples include: creating incentive systems, re-sequencing workflows, refining capture instructions, and scaling review processes

Customer Relationships

• Act as the primary point of contact for research teams at leading AI labs.

• Deliver clear, consistent reporting and proactively anticipate client needs.

• Build long-term trust and identify opportunities for expansion.

Quality Reporting

• Own coverage requirements: environment diversity, tasks, and geographies a dataset needs based on client requests

• Find and close the supply gap between dataset requirements and what the current network actually produces, working with growth on where to add commercial partners

• Run daily internal syncs (“war rooms”) to stay ahead of issues

• Provide regular, transparent progress updates to customer-facing roles

What We're Looking For

• Experience: Background in consulting, private equity, startups, or other operationally intense environments

• Skills: Strong analytical and communication abilities; proven track record of managing complex projects

• Mindset: Excited by “gritty” process optimization and large-scale execution

• Comfortable operating without a playbook in a new org or startup environment

Nice to Have

• Experience in physical operations, supply chain, logistics, manufacturing planning, or marketplace supply

• Experience managing or supporting a distributed workforce, franchise network, or multi-site business

• Experience with annotation, labeling, or training-data operations

• Marketplace supply-side experience, particularly where supply had physical constraints

• Experience in robotics or physical AI