Data Collection Manager
Core
Lead and scale the team responsible for teleoperation data collection to support robot learning and AI policy development for commercially deployed humanoids.
Role type
Manager, Data Collection Operations
Builds
Teleoperation data sets for robot learning models
Domain
Robotics / Embodied AI / Manufacturing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Team leadership and hiring, shift scheduling and operations management, vendor and contract labor management, process improvement (Lean/Six Sigma), data quality and KPI ownership, stakeholder partnership with AI engineering
Preferred skills
Experience building teleoperation functions at robotics/AI companies, understanding of imitation learning data requirements, dashboarding and reporting expertise
Technologies
JIRA, Confluence, Grafana, Tableau, Power BI, Google Workspace
Responsibilities
Build, train, and lead the data collection team; manage vendor relationships and contract labor; own throughput, quality, and cost metrics; execute collection campaigns against task taxonomies; partner with AI engineering to translate model roadmaps into collection plans
Seniority
Manager, hands-on IC with team leadership