# Product & Research Operations Manager, Human Data at Cartesia

- Company: Cartesia
- What the company does: Integrate real-time text-to-speech with Sonic-3.6, Cartesia. Backed by General Catalyst, Index and Kleiner Perkins.
- Company website: https://www.cartesia.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: *HQ - San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $225K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-28
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/cartesia/177c2be2-8610-48af-b129-308bac955112
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cartesia-product-and-research-operations-manager-human-data/

## About the role

We are looking for a Product and Research Operations Manager to design, scale, and operate Cartesia's global scaled evaluation workforce. This role sits at the intersection of product operations, data operations, and vendor management, and directly impacts model quality and customer outcomes. You will own the end-to-end workforce system: hiring pipelines, vendor strategy, workforce planning, quality control, and operational performance.

## What they're looking for

- 6+ years in operations, workforce management, or data annotation systems
- Experience managing large contractor or vendor-based workforces
- Proven ability to scale operations from zero to production
- Systems thinking with the ability to design scalable operational frameworks
- Strong analytical skills with comfort around metrics like inter-rater reliability, precision, and throughput
- Ability to execute quickly under ambiguity with close attention to quality and edge cases

Tags: Product