Nimble Robotics

Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Operations, Nimble Brain

Nimble Robotics$150K — $250K *
Technical Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 4+ years in data operations or similar roles managing high-volume operational pipelines.
  • Proven history of building scalable operational processes in data collection or quality assurance.
  • Experience managing vendor relationships and ensuring performance against SLAs.
  • Strong metrics orientation with ability to track KPIs and use data for decision-making.
  • Exceptional cross-functional communication skills to align various teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
  • Alignment with Nimble's values of resourcefulness, humility, and dependability.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end data operations for data intake, labeling, auditing, and delivery.
  • Design and implement operational processes and staffing plans for data labeling at scale.
  • Define and monitor operational metrics such as throughput and accuracy, providing regular reports.
  • Establish feedback loops to tackle data quality issues quickly with research and engineering.
  • Coordinate with site teams to ensure consistent data collection practices.
  • Manage SLAs with external vendors, including their onboarding and performance.
  • Identify and rectify bottlenecks in the data pipeline with cross-functional collaboration.
  • Continuously enhance tooling, documentation, and procedures as the company scales.

Benefits

  • Unlimited Flexible Time Off to support work-life balance.
  • Comprehensive health insurance plans including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Paid parental leave for new parents to bond with their newborn.
  • Commuter benefits for stress-free travel, including paid parking.
  • Referral bonus for bringing new talent to the company.
  • 401k plan options to assist with retirement savings.
  • Equity program allowing employees to own a stake in Nimble.
Full Job Description
Position Overview

Nimble's Brain is the data and model engine behind our supply chain super humanoid robots - the pipeline that turns raw operational data into the training sets, evaluations, and feedback loops that make our robots smarter every day. We're looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Operations on Nimble's Brain team to own the day-to-day operational rigor of that pipeline: making sure data collection, labeling, quality review, and delivery run like clockwork at scale, across every site and every robot fleet.

In this role, you will manage the operational systems and teams responsible for sourcing, collecting, labeling, auditing, and delivering the data that trains Nimble's models. You'll build and refine the workflows, staffing plans, and quality checkpoints that keep data flowing accurately and on schedule, and you'll be the operational bridge between on-site data teams, labeling vendors/annotators, and the research and engineering teams who consume the data.

You'll work daily with site operations, supply chain, research, and engineering to forecast data needs, unblock throughput issues, and continuously raise the bar on data accuracy and completeness. This is a hands-on, metrics-driven role - success looks like clean, reliable, on-time data that directly improves the intelligence and safety of Nimble's robots.
Responsibilities
  • Own end-to-end data operations for Nimble's Brain: intake, collection, labeling, quality auditing, and delivery of training and evaluation datasets.
  • Design and run the operational processes and staffing plans (in-house and vendor/BPO) needed to label and QA data at scale, on schedule, and within budget.
  • Define and track operational metrics - throughput, accuracy, turnaround time, cost per label - and build the dashboards and reporting cadence to keep the org aligned.
  • Build feedback loops between data quality issues and upstream fixes, partnering with research and engineering to close the loop quickly.
  • Coordinate with on-site data collection teams across warehouse locations to ensure data capture protocols are followed consistently.
  • Manage relationships and SLAs with external labeling/annotation vendors, including onboarding, training, and performance management.
  • Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the data pipeline, escalating and driving cross-functional fixes where needed.
  • Continuously improve tooling, documentation, and standard operating procedures for data operations as Nimble scales.
Qualifications
  • 4+ years in data operations, labeling operations, business/technical operations, or a similar role managing high-volume operational pipelines.
  • Track record building and running scalable operational processes, ideally involving data collection, annotation/labeling, or quality assurance.
  • Comfortable managing vendor/BPO relationships and driving performance against SLAs.
  • Strong metrics orientation - able to define KPIs, build reporting, and use data to drive operational decisions.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication skills; able to align research, engineering, and operations stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ownership and comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
  • Alignment with Nimble's values of being resourceful, humble, dependable, and committed to legendary impact.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in AI/ML data pipelines, data labeling platforms, or model evaluation workflows.
  • Background in robotics, autonomy, warehouse operations, or supply chain environments.
  • Experience standing up or scaling a data operations function from an earlier stage.

Compensation

The pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $150,000 and $250,000/year. Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this position will also receive generous equity for this position.

Culture:

We embrace challenges and strive to make the impossible possible each day. We're not in this to do what's easy or to be mediocre. We want to create something legendary and leave our mark on the world. We're ambitious, we're gritty, we're humble and we're relentlessly resourceful in pursuit of our goals. If this sounds like you then you might be a great fit!

Nimble's Benefits

Unlimited Flexible Time Off

Enjoy the time you need to travel, rejuvenate, and connect with friends and family.

Health Insurance

Nimble provides medical, dental, and vision insurance through several premier plans and options to support you and your family.

Paid Parental Leave

Enjoy paid bonding time following a birth.

Commuter Benefits

Take the stress out of commuting with access to fully paid parking spots.

Referral Bonus

Get a cash bonus for any friend or colleagues that you refer to us that we end up hiring.

401k

Contribute towards a 401k for retirement planning.

Equity

Be an owner in Nimble through our equity program

About Nimble Robotics

Nimble Storage, founded in 2008, produced hardware and software products for data storage, specifically data storage arrays that use the iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols and includes data backup and data protection features. Nimble is now a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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