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Strategic Partnerships & Ops Lead, Physical AI

Sieve· Product
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Role mixing industrial partnerships with hands-on data operations to secure factory access and turn it into reliable multimodal data for frontier labs. Requires building partnerships, operating data ops workflows, and developing repeatable playbooks in physical-industrial environments.

Responsibilities

  • Open industrial access: Identify, pitch, and close partnerships with factories, manufacturers, and industrial operators; navigate security and compliance from first intro through live collection.
  • Operate the data ops platform: Run workforce management, task assignment, and QA workflows; build SOPs and training so quality stays at the bar frontier labs require.
  • Grow supply and partnerships: Source, onboard, and manage a distributed workforce for annotation, curation, and review; test acquisition and sourcing channels that scale.
  • Own product ops with engineering: Ship tooling improvements, track operational metrics, and close gaps in the data platform.
  • Turn one-offs into systems: Document playbooks so partner wins and ops workflows repeat across sites and programs.

Qualifications

  • Direct relationships into factories, manufacturing, or adjacent industrial environments — or a clear track record of building them
  • Mixed technical and non-technical skillset; comfortable with data tooling, light scripting, and spreadsheet-level analysis
  • Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; able to manage multiple concurrent work streams
  • Growth mindset: experience running or contributing to user acquisition, sourcing campaigns, or platform growth
  • Comfort with ambiguous, relationship-heavy work and the unglamorous ops needed to make a partnership live
  • Bachelor’s in CS, STEM, or equivalent practical experience; in-person at our SF HQ

Skills

Required:Industrial partnershipsData operationsProject managementCommunication & relationship management
Nice to have:Scripting / automation

Benefits

  • 401(k) and full health insurance
  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner covered, plus your choice of snacks
  • Ubers covered home
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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