# Strategy & Project Lead (Data Operations) at Human Archive

Strategy & Project Lead (Data Operations) at Human Archive in India. Full-time. Posted August 3, 2026.

- Company: Human Archive
- Location: India
- Job type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-08-03
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/humanarchive/15617d2b-054c-45dd-ba8c-1a1e3dfd2089/application
- Source: https://jobmagic.ai/jobs/strategy-project-lead-data-operations-human-archive-mcnn6c

## Requirements

- 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

## 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.
We care more about your ability to execute than your degree, credentials, or years of experience.

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Location

On-site in Bangalore.