Operations Manager (YC-Backed, High-Growth Startup)
Growth measured in months, not years. Direct access to the founding team. Own a live site from day one.
Human Archive builds the datasets that teach robots to work with their hands, captured from real people on factory floors, in kitchens and on construction sites across 30+ countries. We're YC-backed with $8.2M raised, and built by researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, NYU GRAIL, UPenn GRASP and JHU Robotics.
The path here moves quickly: Operations Manager, then Regional Manager, then City Head, based on performance rather than time served.
The role
As an Operations Manager, you own the deployment. From the moment equipment leaves our storage point to the moment the day's data is verified, it is yours to run: a team of five to six operators, a live site, and a set of problems nobody can solve for you from a desk.
The stakes are real: robots learn from what we capture. A good deployment produces data that trains machines to work with their hands; a bad one produces footage nobody can use. That call gets made on the floor, by you, in the moment.
It suits someone who is equally comfortable talking to a mechanic mid-shift and holding a strict data protocol when a site is pushing back. Most people can do one. We are l
