Annotations Portfolio Lead

The role

This person will own end-to-end performance for a portfolio of annotation programs. They will partner with researchers to define requirements and drive continuous improvement in operations.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end performance for a portfolio of annotation programs
• Partner with researchers to define and refine requirements
• Drive continuous improvement in operations by building scalable solutions
• Foster clarity, collaboration, and alignment across technical and nontechnical stakeholders

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in program management, operations, technical project management, consulting, startup operations, or similar roles
• Strong problem solving and systems thinking
• Ability to identify points of leverage and diagnose problems with incomplete information
• Intuition for data quality and research needs grounded in understanding of model training and evaluation
• Stellar communication and ability to clarify nuance
• Ability to structure complex information in digestible ways
• Ability to work with remote, ESL audiences
• Organizational skills to bring structure to chaos and balance needs across multiple programs

Nice to have

• Experience with data annotations for ML/AI
• Experience with robotics, egocentric video, or other multimodal sensor data
• Experience with using coding agents to fill gaps in tooling / infra

About the company

Physical Intelligence is developing foundation models and learning algorithms to power robots and physically-actuated devices. The Annotations team produces high-quality data labels to support model development.