Manager Operations - Robotics Labs

Instawork

Instawork is one of the largest flexible labor marketplaces in the US - connecting over 10 million blue-collar workers with businesses across warehouses, kitchens, stadiums, etc. Built over a decade into the infrastructure that powers America's hourly economy, Instawork has raised $160M from TCV, Benchmark, and Greylock. We operate at a massive scale, move with urgency, and are now making one of the most ambitious bets in AI.

About IRL (Instawork Robotics Labs)

Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a 100,000-year data gap - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instaworks answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the worlds leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more here.

What will you do?

We're hiring an Operations Manager to run and scale our robotics data operations across APAC, starting from Bengaluru. You will own the operational backbone of a large-scale video data collection programme spanning multiple cities, thousands of field workers, and the most demanding quality bars in the industry. You'll work directly with senior leadership and carry real ownership from week one.

• Build the operations from the ground up - workflows, QA pipelines, and performance systems that scale across India and APAC without breaking
• Hire, mentor, and lead a lean team. Make them punch way above their weight
• Automate everything you possibly can. If AI can do it, it should not be on your plate
• Get on planes. Stand up new markets. Make them work
• Own every vendor relationship, every field coordinator, every delivery.

Who are you?
If you've been itching to do the most important work of your career, and are ready to pour everything into it, this is your moment.

• 2+ years in operations, with experience building and leading teams inside startups.
• IT Asset & Inventory Management: 2+ years of experience tracking hardware distribution, managing software licenses, and handling employee device handovers/offboarding.
• Strong with operational metrics, data reporting, and Google Sheets
• Hands-on with AI tools and automation platforms - you have actively used them to eliminate manual work.

Why Join Us

• Robotics data is a once-in-a-decade infrastructure bet. Get in before it goes mainstream and build your career at the center of it
• You will have full ownership of a greenfield operation - the kind of scope most people don't get until much later in their careers
• Work with world-class robotics, ops, and product talent

To Apply

If this role is speaking to you, don't just send a resume. Tell us about the hardest operational problem you have ever solved. We will take it from there.