Contractual || Team Lead - Robotics Labs

Instawork
Pune, Maharashtra, IndiaPosted 11 February 2026

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<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><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>We are seeking a Team Lead to oversee the day-to-day operations of a Robotic AI project focused on physical and cognitive task completion—such as sorting, assembling, matching, and other hands-on activities. The ideal candidate will be experienced in leading operational teams, managing quality assurance, and ensuring timely delivery of tasks while coordinating with internal stakeholders.</p> <p>This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be responsible for ensuring operational excellence, managing a team of AI task agents/operators, and being the key link between execution and strategic oversight.</p> <p><strong>Working Days - Monday to Saturday</strong></p> <p><strong>Location - Pune</strong></p> <p><strong>In this role, you’ll:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Hiring new agents and build the team</li> <li>Mentor and manage a team of agents/operators performing task-based physical and data-driven workflows</li> <li>Oversee day-to-day operations related to AI task execution, including sorting, assembling, matching, and other process-driven activities</li> <li>Maintain high QA standards by creating SOP’s,  defining and enforcing quality control processes</li> <li>Review completed work regularly to ensure compliance with requirements and provide corrective feedback where needed.</li> <li>Act as the main point of contact between the operations team and project stakeholders </li> <li>Extremely adept at using AI tools to solve problems - most important is chatGPT to come up with task ideas for agents.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>3+ years of experience in team leadership roles, preferably in operations, BPO, or technology-driven task environments.</li> <li>Demonstrated experience managing task-driven teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Why Join Us</strong></p> <ul> <li>Play a key leadership role in an innovative AI-powered data capture initiative.</li> <li>Lead a hands-on project with tangible outcomes and a dynamic environment.</li> <li>Competitive compensation, perks like commute, food</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our Values </span></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Empathy, Trust & Candor</span><br></strong>We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bias for Action</span><br></strong>We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, ... (truncated, view full listing at source)