Vendor Management Specialist

Centific; India; Remote; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Centific is leading a frontier AI data foundry focused on curating diverse, high-quality data to empower GenAI deployments. The role within the About Job Physical AI & Specialised Data Operations involves managing vendor partnerships for Physical AI data collection programmes, coordinating multi-site engagements, and ensuring data provenance and licensing compliance across regions.

The candidate will bridge internal data science and external vendors, shaping collection protocols, tooling

Responsibilities

• Manage vendor partnerships supporting Physical AI data collection programmes — including egocentric (first-person POV) capture, sensor-tagged spatial data, and on-the-ground activity datasets.
• Understand OTS (off-the-shelf) data requirements and work with vendors to assess fitness-for-purpose, licensing constraints, and data provenance.
• Coordinate multi-site or multi-country data collection engagements, ensuring quality, coverage, and demographic representation requirements are met.
• Serve as the operational bridge between internal data science/product teams and external vendor partners on collection protocols, tooling requirements, and delivery timelines.

Job description

About Centific

Centific is a frontier AI data foundry that curates diverse, high-quality data, using our purpose-built technology platforms to empower the Magnificent Seven and our enterprise clients with safe, scalable AI deployment. Our team includes more than 150 PhDs and data scientists, along with more than 4,000 AI practitioners and engineers. We harness the power of an integrated solution ecosystem—comprising industry-leading partnerships and 1.8 million vertical domain experts in more than 230 markets to create contextual, multilingual, pre-trained datasets; fine-tuned, industry-specific LLMs; and RAG pipelines supported by vector databases. Our zero-distance innovation™ solutions for GenAI can reduce GenAI costs by up to 80% and bring solutions to market 50% faster. Our mission is to bridge the gap between AI creators and industry leaders by bringing best practices in GenAI to unicorn innovators and enterprise customers. We aim to help these organizations unlock significant business value by deploying GenAI at scale, helping to ensure they stay at the forefront of technological advancement and maintain a competitive edge in their respective markets.

About Job Physical AI & Specialised Data Operations

Manage vendor partnerships supporting Physical AI data collection programmes — including egocentric (first-person POV) capture, sensor-tagged spatial data, and on-the-ground activity datasets. Understand OTS (off-the-shelf) data requirements and work with vendors to assess fitness-for-purpose, licensing constraints, and data provenance. Coordinate multi-site or multi-country data collection engagements, ensuring quality, coverage, and demographic representation requirements are met. Serve as the operational bridge between internal data science/product teams and external vendor partners on collection protocols, tooling requirements, and delivery timelines.

Centific is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, familial status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Join a growing company using technology to help tackle enterprises’ toughest challenges.