Chief of Staff at Human Archive
Human Archive is hiring a Chief of Staff in India. On-site.
About Human Archive
Human Archive is a data lab and research company focused on modeling human embodied intelligence. It designs and manufactures custom data-collection hardware such as gloves and wrist cameras, operates large-scale collection of multimodal video and sensor data from contributors and industry partners across sectors including homes, hotels, restaurants, agriculture, manufacturing, construction, and retail in over 30 countries, and develops 3D perception and annotation models to train robot policies. Its datasets are used for robotics, world modeling, and research into human intelligence.
Chief of Staff job description
About the role
Human Archive (YC W26) is hiring someone to lead our end-to-end data annotation operations.
You will work directly with the founder to build and manage a high-performing annotator workforce for robotics data. Your job is to ensure we consistently have the right people, quality, and throughput across multiple projects running simultaneously.
This is a highly hands-on role for someone who is excellent with people, metrics, and fast-moving operations.
What you will do
Recruit, evaluate, and manage high-quality data annotators
Maintain a high bar for annotation quality and workforce performance
Allocate annotators across multiple simultaneous projects
Track daily throughput, quality, attendance, utilisation, and project targets
Build dashboards and operating systems with our engineering team
Identify bottlenecks and improve annotation workflows
Design incentives that help teams consistently meet daily targets
Forecast staffing requirements for upcoming projects
Manage team leads and resolve day-to-day operational issues
Build processes that can scale from hundreds to thousands of annotators
Who we are looking for
Extremely good with people and frontline teams
Strong analytical ability and comfort with metrics and dashboards
Excellent at prioritisation and resource allocation
Highly organised and able to manage multiple projects at once
Creative about incentives, hiring, performance, and operations
Clear, direct, and fast communicator
High ownership, energy, urgency, and agency
Comfortable working in a demanding, fast-changing startup environment
Experience at companies such as Surge AI, Scale AI, Mercor, Turing, Outlier, Remotasks, or similar workforce and data-operations businesses is a strong advantage.
Ideally 2+ YOE
Location
On-site in Bangalore.
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