Associate Director - Operations

<div class="content-intro"><p>Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.</p></div><h3><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">About Instawork Robotics Labs </span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Instawork Robotics Labs is a new initiative within Instawork. We work with the world’s leading robotics and AI labs to collect, manage, and deliver high-quality training data at scale - using a worker network of 10M+ professionals across the US and six countries. This is early. This is foundational. What we build now will define the next decade of robotics.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Why this role exists (read this first)</span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">At Instawork Robotics Labs, we’re building the operational backbone that powers robotics and AI labs across the world. Not dashboards. Not pilots. Real data, at real scale, in real environments.This role is for someone who doesn’t only want to <em>run</em> ops. They want to build the operating system.</span><br><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">If you’ve ever looked at chaos and thought <em>“give me 30 days and a mandate”</em> - keep reading.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">What you’ll actually do </span></h2> <h6><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>You will own and execute end-to-end robotics data collection programs in the APAC region. That means:</strong></span></h6> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Launching new data collection programs from zero</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Setting up residential homes, offices, Airbnbs, and field locations from scratch</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Designing workflows that work in the real world, not slides</span></li> </ul> </ul> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Running multi-city, multi-country operations</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Recruiting, onboarding, training, and managing large worker cohorts across APAC</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1;"><span style="font-si ... (truncated, view full listing at source)