Annotation Operations Manager

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• Own the relationships. Be the primary point of contact for our annotation platform (Encord) and for external labeling vendors and partners.

• Coordinate partners. Run external workstreams by provisioning access and invites, standing up projects and SOPs for partners, and managing scope and priorities with them.

• Manage the handoffs. Own the scale and vendor upload runbook, and make sure data moves cleanly between our systems and external tooling.

• Absorb the overhead. Represent annotation ops in vendor and external syncs so the rest of the team stays focused.

• 3+ years running operations, program management, or team management, ideally in data annotation, data operations, ML data pipelines, BPO or vendor management, or a comparable high throughput environment.

• Direct people management experience. You have supervised a team, run hiring, and handled performance and approvals.

• Strong operational instincts. You build repeatable processes, track the right metrics, and are comfortable owning dashboards, scorecards, and reporting.

• Comfort with annotation and labeling tooling such as Encord, plus enough technical fluency to work in spreadsheets, basic SQL or scripts, and pipeline tools without hand holding.

• Vendor and third party management experience. You can be the accountable point of contact and keep external partners on scope and on schedule.

• A high tolerance for fragmentation. You can hold roughly 20 small threads a week and still keep the operation predictable.

• Clear, proactive communication. You surface risks early and keep stakeholders aligned.

• Exposure to robotics, computer vision, or imitation learning data.

• Experience automating manual ops workflows with scripts or lightweight tooling.

• Experience scaling an annotation team through a growth phase and standing up sub leads.

At Dyna Robotics, we build technology for the real world, which requires a team as diverse as the environments our robots inhabit. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to technical rigor and mutual respect.

Don’t let a checklist stop you. Data shows that underrepresented groups often only apply if they meet 100% of the criteria. We value problem-solving and grit over keyword matching. If you’re passionate about robotics, no matter your discipline, we want to hear from you, even if you don't check every box.