Apna—Operations Lead - Physical AI Video Annotation

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Description: About Arctic Engine: Arctic Engines is an enterprise-grade Al human data operations company specializing in high-quality training data, RLHF, and human feedback pipelines for frontier Al models. We are part of the Apna Group, one of India's fastest-growing unicorns, backed by marquee investors such as Lightspeed, Tiger Global, Insight Partners, Peak XV, and others. With native access to Apna's 60M+ workforce, we deliver high-quality training data at unmatched scale and speed. Company: Arctic Engines Location: Bengaluru (Work from office - Domlur | 6 days) Employment: Full-time Experience: 5+ years in AI data or video annotation operations Compensation: ₹40,000–₹45,000 per month Joining: Immediate joiners preferred About the role We are looking for an Operations Lead to run large-scale egocentric video annotation programs. You will own workforce planning, daily production, freelancer management, and on-time delivery. Requirements: Responsibilities - Manage a workforce of **100+ annotators, reviewers, and team leads**, including freelancers. - Own sourcing support, onboarding, training coordination, scheduling, task allocation, and performance management. - Build capacity and production plans; track productivity, utilization, turnaround time, and delivery against targets. - Coordinate annotation and QC workflows, resolve operational blockers, and manage rework. - Maintain SOPs, production trackers, and client-ready progress reports. - Partner with product and tooling teams to improve task assignment, review queues, and workflow efficiency. Requirements - Proven experience managing a **100+ person annotation workforce**, including distributed freelancers. - Direct experience with industrial video, robotics, or Physical AI datasets is 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. Apply through this platform with your CV and a brief summary of the largest annotation team and program you have managed.