Annotations Portfolio Lead

Physical Intelligence

• $120K — $145K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in program management, operations, or similar roles
  • Strong problem-solving and systems thinking skills
  • Intuition for data quality and research needs
  • Excellent communication skills, especially with diverse audiences
  • Strong organizational skills to manage multiple programs

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end performance for annotation programs
  • Partner with researchers to define and refine requirements
  • Drive continuous improvement in operations
  • Identify issues and build scalable solutions
  • Foster collaboration across technical and non-technical stakeholders

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on high-impact projects
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Focus on continuous improvement and innovation
  • Exposure to cutting-edge data annotation techniques
  • Potential for professional growth in a dynamic field
Full Job Description
The Team

High-quality data is the fuel for our work. The Annotations team produces high-quality data labels to support model development.

This role is a hands-on owner for a portfolio of annotation programs: partnering with researchers to understand what data they need and why, translating that into concrete requirements and rubrics, and running the operation that delivers the data. This person will also be expected to drive continuous improvement across multiple surfaces to mature the annotations function and balance strategic problem solving with tactical execution.
In this role you will
  • Own end-to-end performance for a portfolio of annotation programs, driving quality, speed, and efficiency
  • Partner with researchers to define and refine requirements
  • Drive step-function continuous improvement in our operations, identifying issues and building scalable solutions
  • Foster clarity, collaboration, and alignment across both technical and nontechnical stakeholders, including vendor partners, researchers, operations
What we hope you'll bring
  • 5+ years of experience in program management, operations, technical project management, consulting, startup operations, or similar roles
  • Strong problem solving and systems thinking; ability to identify points of leverage in a constantly-evolving system and diagnose problems with incomplete information
  • Intuition for data quality and research needs, grounded in understanding of model training and evaluation
  • Stellar communication and ability to clarify nuance, structure complex information in digestible ways, and work with remote, ESL audiences
  • Organizational skills to bring structure to chaos and balance needs across multiple programs
Bonus points
  • Experience with data annotations for ML/AI, having seen versions of this problem before
  • Experience with robotics, egocentric video, or other multimodal sensor data
  • Experience with using coding agents to fill gaps in tooling / infra

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