{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"e8cc0699a427597ba400372b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e8cc0699a427597ba400372b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/e8cc0699a427597ba400372b","title":"Operations Manager, Robotics Data","description":"About Us\nFoundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Basically, we’re building robots that build robots.\nWe are reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics. Our mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer. We aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality.\nThe Role\nThis role is for an Operations Manager who thrives on building and running a high-performance contractor workforce, equally comfortable designing onboarding programs from first principles and walking the floor to fix what's broken in real time. You will own the people-and-process layer that turns billable contractor hours into delivered, usable data, managing 50+ operators executing UMI gripper, egocentric, and VR teleop data collection against real customer contracts. You will stand up workforce operations from scratch and drive rapid build-test-learn cycles to deliver an operation that is both rigorous and scalable.\nYou will partner closely with the Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data, to own rig calibration, QA spec, and the data pipeline handoff. Together you are accountable for whether the floor ships what the model teams need.\nKey Responsibilities\nOwn the end-to-end workforce lifecycle for 50+ operators, including sourcing, screening, hiring, onboarding, certification, performance management, and offboarding\nRun the daily operations cadence, including shift planning, station assignments, breaks, and coverage\nManage shift leads (3–5 direct reports) and operate escalation paths into engineering\nBuild and review operator scorecards weekly, tracking success rate, rejection rate, and throughput, surfacing and managing the 60–95% quality variance common across operators\nDesign and execute a quality-first incentive structure\nBuild the onboarding curriculum and certification gating, ensuring no operator captures production data until certified on the rig and task\nRun live floor QA, catching issues in real time against SOPs co-authored with the TPM\nExecute operator training, certification, and pilot batch readiness when new tasks ramp up\nOwn fleet readiness on the floor, including daily rig health checks, in-shift swaps, spares staging, and ensuring every station is production-ready at shift start\nOwn contractor timekeeping, the payroll vendor relationship, and floor logistics including layout, station configuration, supplies, badging, safety, EHS, and facilities\nManage VR teleop floor logistics, including headset hygiene, motion sickness rotation policies, and controller battery and charging logistics\nRun a continuous improvement program (Kaizen / 6S) focused on throughput, ergonomics, and station efficiency\nBuild the career ladder for top operators (operator senior trainer shift lead)\nDefine and report against operations-level OKRs for throughput, quality, and operator performance\nEnforce data governance on the floor, ensuring operators handle customer data per contractual and regulatory requirements\nWhat We're Looking For\n3–5 years managing a contractor or hourly workforce of 30+ in a high-throughput operations environment (data collection, AV ops, manufacturing, fulfillment, clinical trials, field ops)\nProven ability to build workforce operations from the ground up and improve on existing programs\nComfortable owning operator scorecards, SOP execution, and standardization\nEqually effective at a desk and on the floor, with deep hands-on experience running a shift and solving problems in real time\nTrack record tracking and improving operational metrics (throughput, quality, retention, certification rates)\nExperience designing onboarding, certification, and performance management programs in a cross-functional environment\nCollaborative by nature, you consider downstream impacts on data quality, engineering, and operators when making operational decisions\nBias toward action, scrappy problem solving, and moving fast without sacrificing rigor\nWhy Join Us?\nThis is one of the only places where world-class manufacturing operators, mechanical engineers, robotics researchers, and software engineers sit in the same room — building production systems together.\nWe are committed to being deeply embedded in the U.S. industrial base. Our focus is simple: build adaptive robotic assembly systems that make American manufacturing scalable, resilient, and competitive again.\nIf you want to run a mature, well-defined commercial org, this may not be the role.\nIf you want to build the commercial engine that brings AI-driven manufacturing to every industrial and energy customer in America — this is it.\nThe base salary range for this full-time position in the location of San Francisco is:\n$150,000—$250,000 USD\nCompensation packages at Foundry Robotics for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position, determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, interview performance, and relevant education or training. Foundry Robotics employees in eligible roles are also granted equity based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. You'll also receive benefits including, but not limited to: Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage, and generous PTO.","company":"Foundry Robotics","rawCompany":"foundry robotics","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-06-20T05:55:45.986Z","occupations":[{"code":"11-1021.00","title":"General and Operations Managers","slug":"general-and-operations-managers"},{"code":"51-1011.00","title":"First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers","slug":"first-line-supervisors-of-production-and-operating-workers"},{"code":"11-3051.00","title":"Industrial Production Managers","slug":"industrial-production-managers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541715","title":"Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology)","slug":"research-and-development-in-the-physical-engineering-and-life-sciences-except-nanotechnology-and-biotechnology"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"333248","title":"All Other Industrial Machinery Manufacturing","slug":"all-other-industrial-machinery-manufacturing"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Operations Manager, Robotics Data","description":"About Us\nFoundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. 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