Assistant Manager - Inventory - Robotics Labs
Instawork
Bengaluru, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 1 month ago
Skill Required
RoboticsbuildingSparkAI
Key highlights
- 4+ years experience in operations, building and leading teams in startups.
- 4+ years experience in IT asset & inventory management (hardware distribution, software licenses, device handovers/offboarding).
- Role based in Bengaluru, scaling robotics data operations across APAC.
- Full ownership of a greenfield operation with scope typically seen later in careers.
- Work with world‑class robotics, ops, and product talent.
- Hands‑on experience with AI tools and automation platforms to eliminate manual work.
Role overview
We’re hiring an Assistant Manager - Operations 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, working directly with senior leadership and carrying real ownership from week one.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 4+ years in operations, with experience building and leading teams inside startups.
- IT Asset & Inventory Management: 4+ 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.
Benefits
- 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
- 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
Additional details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 deploys skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments – kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes – to capture the high‑fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models.
- Our Values: 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; Bias for Action – we practice high‑velocity decision‑making, clear‑eyed that we often operate with incomplete information; Always Be Learning – we’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other; Act Like an Owner – we work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth.
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