Strategic Project Lead, Robotics

Responsibilities

• Serve as the full owner of our most visible and high-impact customer and internal collection projects, making decisions that directly impact data quality, operational efficiency, revenue, and margins.
• Understand customer requirements and design collection specifications best suited to improving model performance based on customer needs.
• Build out project timelines and pipeline infrastructure to ensure quality and efficiency.
• Train, coach, and manage dynamic and global teams of operators and collectors.
• Build analytics and reports to make data-driven decisions.
• Functionally lead a team of Operations Program Managers and Associates that support the execution of the project, define and assign tasks, monitor progress.
• Partner with diverse stakeholders (Engineering + Product + Finance + Go-to-Market) to work on problems that will drive advancements for the largest Robotics models (VLAs/VLMs) in the world.
• Give regular progress updates to Scale’s executive team.

Requirements

• Strong technical background, combined with a business-oriented mindset (a degree in engineering or computer science is ideal + prior exposure to driving business outcomes).
• 3+ years of experience leading a project team, developing product or operational processes, or launching new operations.
• Excellent problem-solving capabilities (experience working on operational challenges is a plus) - ability to come up with creative solutions to complex, ambiguous operational problems.
• Entrepreneurial experience and mindset - you are excited about building things from scratch and are able to identify issues and execute quickly.

Nice-to-Haves

• Hands-on experience in Robotics, AI, and/or Computer Vision.
• Experience working with global teams on different timezones.
• SQL proficiency.