Strategic Projects Lead

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. 

Who You Are:

• 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.

Nice-to-haves:

• A degree in a hardware-related field (Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, or similar)
• Experience with large-scale data collection operations
• Experience in robotics or physical AI
• Experience at an early-stage or mid-stage startup
• Comfort and presence working directly with external partners or customers

What You’ll Do:

• Analyze Feature Performance - Assist in monitoring and communicating the performance of our data collection efforts by tracking key metrics, analyzing user behavior, and summarizing insights for the team.
• Champion the User Experience - Be a voice for our users. You'll help gather, organize, and analyze user feedback from various channels to inform the product roadmap.
• Pro activation and coordination - Organize, train, and problem-solve on behalf of the Instawork Pros performing data collection activities
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Work closely with robotics leadership, other members of the data ops team, QA, and engineering to ensure alignment from concept to deployment.

For CA Based Applicants:

• The base salary for this position is between $100K to $140K
• This position is eligible for equity in the form of stock options
• This position is eligible for Instawork benefits, including: 
• Variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
• Flexible paid time off
• At least 8 paid company holidays annually
• Phone stipend
• Commuter stipend
• Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
• Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
• Flexible spending plans
• 401K plan
• Perkspot - discount program through Lumity

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Our Values

• Empathy, Trust & Candor
  We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.

• Bias for Action
  We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!

• Always Be Learning
  We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.

• Act Like an Owner
  We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.

About Instawork

Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!

Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.

Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.

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