Strategy & Project Lead (Data Operations)

The role

You will lead end-to-end data annotation operations. You will work with the founder to build and manage a workforce for robotics data.

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 the 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

Required qualifications

• 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

Nice to have

• Experience at companies such as Surge AI, Scale AI, Mercor, Turing, Outlier, Remotasks, or similar workforce and data-operations businesses

About the company

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