<div class="content-intro"><p>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, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Instawork</strong></span></p> <p>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. We operate at a massive scale, move with urgency, and are now making one of the most ambitious bets in AI.</p> <p><strong>About IRL (Instawork Robotics Labs)</strong></p> <p>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 is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy 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. Read more <a href="https://x.com/sumirmeghani/status/2044707303262237129" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p><strong>What will you do?</strong></p> <p>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. You'll work directly with senior leadership and carry real ownership from week one.</p> <ul> <li>Build the <strong>operations</strong> from the ground up - workflows, QA pipelines, and performance systems that scale across India and APAC without breaking</li> <li>Hire, mentor, and <strong>lead</strong> a lean team. Make them punch way above their weight</li> <li><strong>Automate</strong> everything you possibly can. If AI can do it, it should not be on your plate</li> <li>Get on planes. Stand up <strong>new markets</strong>. Make them work</li> <li>Own every vendor relationship, every field coordinator, every delivery. </li> </ul> <p><strong>Who are you?</strong><strong><br></strong>If you've been itching to do the most important work of your career, and are ready to pour everything into it, this is your moment.</p> <ul> <li>4+ years in operations, with experience building and leading teams inside startups.</li> <li>IT Asset & Inventory Management: 4+ years of experience tracking hardware distribution, managing software licenses, and handling employee device handovers/offboarding.</li> <li>Strong with operational metrics, data reporting, and Google Sheets</li> <li>Hands-on with AI tools and automation platforms - you have actively used them to eliminate manual work.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Why Join Us</strong></p> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>You will have full ownership of a greenfield operation - the kind of scope most people don't get until much later in their careers</li> <li>Work with world-class robotics, ops, and product talent</li> </ul> <p><strong>To Apply</strong></p> <p>If this role is speaking to you, don't just send a resume. Tell us about the hardest operational problem you have ever solved. We will take it from there. </p> <p> </p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our Values </span></strong></p> <ul> <li> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Empathy, Trust & Candor</span><br></strong>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.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bias for Action</span><br></strong>We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!</p> </li> <li> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Always Be Learning</span><br></strong>We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.</p> </li> <li> <p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Act Like an Owner</span><br></strong>We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.</p> </li> </ul> <p><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt;">About Instawork</span></strong></p> <p>Founded in 2015, <a href="https://www.instawork.com">Instawork</a> is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!</p> <p>Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, a