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.