Manager Operations - Robotics Labs

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.

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.

Instawork Robotics Lab (IRL)

Robots need to learn from the real world. Right now, that data barely exists. Researchers at UC Berkeley call it the "100,000-year data gap." IRL is Instawork's answer to it.

We send skilled workers into kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, and homes to capture the real-world task data that the world's leading robotics labs need to train their foundation models. This is the data that will teach robots to cook, clean, pick, pack. And we are building the operation that collects and refines it, starting from Bengaluru.

Read why our Co-Founder & CEO Sumir Meghani believes this is the most important bet Instawork has ever made, 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.

• 5+ years in operations, with experience building and leading teams inside startups.

• 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.

Our Values

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Empathy, Trust & Candor
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.

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Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!

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Always Be Learning
We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.

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Act Like an Owner
We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.

About Instawork

Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!

Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.

Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.

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