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. Ideally 2+ YOE Location On-site in Bangalore.