Data Operations Lead

Sieve; California (MO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k + Full Health Insurance

Meals covered

Ubers covered home

Job summary

Sieve is seeking a Data Operations Lead to manage and scale their data operations platform. In this dynamic role, you will oversee workforce management and operational performance while handling product operations initiatives. The ideal candidate blends operational expertise with strategic thinking to drive user acquisition and manage complex workflows.

Qualifications include a Bachelor's degree in CS or STEM, strong organizational skills, and comfortable with data tools. Benefits include full health insurance and covered meals.

Qualifications

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, able to manage multiple concurrent work streams.
• Mixed technical and non-technical skillset, comfortable with data tooling, light scripting, and spreadsheet-level analysis.
• Growth mindset: experience running or contributing to user acquisition, sourcing campaigns, or platform growth efforts.

Responsibilities

• Operate and scale Sieve's internal data ops platform and manage workforce.
• Drive platform growth: run acquisition campaigns and test new sourcing channels.
• Source, onboard, and manage a distributed human workforce.
• Build and improve QA processes to ensure high data standards.
• Own product ops for the data platform and identify operational gaps.

Skills

Organizational skills

Data tooling comfort

Scripting

Spreadsheet analysis

Growth mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS, STEM, or equivalent experience

Job description

About Us

Sieve is the only AI research lab exclusively focused on video data. We combine exabyte-scale video infrastructure, novel video understanding techniques, and dozens of data sources to develop datasets that push the frontier of video modeling. Video makes up 80% of internet traffic and has become the enabling digital medium powering creativity, communication, gaming, AR/VR, and robotics. Sieve exists to solve the biggest bottleneck in growth of these applications: high-quality training data.

We've partnered with top AI labs and did $XXM last quarter alone, as a team of just 15 people. We also raised our Series A last year from Tier 1 firms such as Matrix Partners, Swift Ventures, Y Combinator, and AI Grant.

About the Role

As Data Operations Lead, you'll own the day-to-day execution and scaling of Sieve's data operations platform. This is a deeply operational and semi-technical role. You'll manage our human workforce, build and improve QA processes, handle people sourcing and onboarding, and drive product ops initiatives that make our platform more efficient. A major part of this role is growth: you'll run campaigns and experiments to expand the platform's user base, find new channels for sourcing, and drive adoption. This role is ideal for someone who is both a builder and an optimizer, someone who can get their hands dirty with tooling while also thinking strategically about how to scale a complex operational machine.

What You'll Do

• Operate and scale Sieve's internal data ops platform, including workforce management, task assignment, and QA workflows
• Drive platform growth: run acquisition campaigns, test new sourcing channels, and grow the user base through creative and scalable strategies
• Source, onboard, and manage a distributed human workforce for data annotation, curation, and quality review
• Build and improve QA processes to ensure data output meets the standards required by frontier AI labs
• Own product ops for the data platform. Work with engineering to ship tooling improvements, track operational metrics, and identify gaps
• Create documentation, SOPs, and training materials for operational workflows

Requirements

• 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 efforts
• Bachelor's degree in CS, STEM, or equivalent practical experience
• In-person at our SF HQ

Nice to Have

• Experience managing human-in-the-loop data operations or annotation pipelines
• At least 1 year of engineering experience or strong technical fluency
• Experience as an early hire at a startup or spearheading ops at an AI lab
• Familiarity with data quality frameworks or ML data pipelines

Benefits

• 401k + Full Health Insurance
• Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
• Ubers covered home