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Strategic Projects Lead

Instawork · San Francisco, California, United States · On-site

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About Instawork

Temporary and permanent staffing: hospitality, warehouse, retail, hotel, event, and food service operations. 7M workers across 400+ cities in U.S. and Canada. Backed by Greylock, Y Combinator and GV.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • An early career professional , with 3+ years of work experience, who thrives in ambiguity and has a "whatever it takes" attitude to get a program off the ground
  • Someone with a strong sense of ownership , comfortable taking a workflow or program from end to end, rather than just a piece of it, and pushing it forward without being told every step
  • A strong communicator who can move fluidly between talking to users on the ground, robotics partners, and internal engineering/leadership
  • An AI-first builder's mindset : when you spot a repetitive or manual workflow, your instinct is to systematize or automate it, using AI tools and scripting where useful
  • A Problem-Solver who is organized, detail-oriented, and digs to the root of an issue rather than settling for a surface-level fix
  • A fast learner excited to operate at the frontier of robotics and physical AI, and energized by scaling something from 0 to 1
More about this role

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.

Instawork’s on-demand labor marketplace is uniquely valuable for robotics and physical AI training. We’re working with leading frontier labs to create the highest-quality, highest-diversity dataset for training robotics foundation models. Instawork Robotics is the human advantage in the robotics revolution, and the Instawork Strategic Projects Lead will be at the center of this cutting-edge data collection effort.

  • An early career professional , with 3+ years of work experience, who thrives in ambiguity and has a "whatever it takes" attitude to get a program off the ground.
  • Someone with a strong sense of ownership , comfortable taking a workflow or program from end to end, rather than just a piece of it, and pushing...

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