# Strategic Project Lead, Robotics

**Company:** [Scale AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/scale-ai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Technical Program Management
**Salary:** $152k – $228k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Project Management, Operations, SQL, Robotics, AI, Computer Vision, Stakeholder Management
**Posted:** 2026-07-02

> Lead high-impact data collection projects for Scale's Robotics business unit, owning customer and internal initiatives that drive revenue, model performance for VLAs/VLMs, operational efficiency, and team management across global stakeholders.

## Job Description

## 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.

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