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Salary: INR 40,000 - 45,000 / monthly
Arctic Engines, part of the Apna Group (a unicorn-backed enterprise AI data operations company), is seeking an Operations Lead to manage large-scale egocentric video annotation programs for frontier AI models. You will own end-to-end workforce planning, daily production management, freelancer coordination, and on-time delivery of high-quality training data.
In this role, you will manage a workforce of 100+ annotators, reviewers, and team leads (including distributed freelancers). Key responsibilities include: sourcing support and onboarding; training coordination and scheduling; task allocation and performance management; building capacity and production plans; tracking productivity, utilization, turnaround time, and delivery against targets; coordinating annotation and QC workflows; resolving operational blockers and managing rework; maintaining SOPs, production trackers, and client-ready progress reports; and partnering with product and tooling teams to improve task assignment, review queues, and workflow efficiency.
Arctic Engines specializes in high-quality training data, RLHF, and human feedback pipelines for frontier AI models. The company leverages native access to Apna's 60M+ workforce to deliver training data at scale and speed. Backed by marquee investors including Lightspeed, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, and Peak XV, the company is positioned at the intersection of AI infrastructure and human data operations.
The role is based in Bengaluru (Domlur office, 6 days per week on-site). Immediate joiners are preferred.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of experience in AI data or video annotation operations
- Proven experience managing a 100+ person annotation workforce, including distributed freelancers
- Direct experience with industrial video, robotics, or Physical AI datasets (mandatory)
- Working knowledge of egocentric video annotation, chunking, temporal action segmentation, action labels, keypoints, and natural language descriptions
- Strong skills in workforce planning, delivery management, reporting, escalation handling, and stakeholder communication
- Comfortable with annotation platforms, spreadsheets, dashboards, and structured data outputs
Applicants should submit CV and a brief summary of the largest annotation team and program they have managed.
