International Field Operations Lead

Sieve; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) matching

Health insurance

Meals covered (breakfast, lunch, and/​

Snacks

Uber rides home

Job summary

Sieve is building out international field operations to support on-the-ground data collection and local team formation across priority markets. This hands-on role requires launching operations, hiring in-market staff, and turning early efforts into reliable, scalable processes.

Based in or relocating to San Francisco, you will travel as needed and collaborate with SF product and ops to ensure smooth execution, quality, and compliance as we expand the program.

Qualifications

• Direct on-the-ground operations experience, ideally expanding teams internationally.
• Track record hiring and managing field staff (contractors, vendors, or full-time).
• Willing to travel internationally and relocate if needed; comfortable with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Stand up international ops: launch on-the-ground operations in priority markets.
• Hire and grow local teams: source, hire, onboard, and manage people in-market; build the staffing model as volume grows.
• Own day-to-day field execution: manage logistics, quality, scheduling, and vendor/partner issues.

Skills

Field ops mgmt

Hiring & people mgmt

Logistics & scheduling

Cross-cultural comms

Travel readiness

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

About Us

Sieve is a multimodal lab curating the world's highest-quality training datasets, spanning video, audio, images, text, and 3D. We combine exabyte-scale data infrastructure with novel multimodal understanding techniques to push the frontier of foundation models. We exist to solve one of the biggest bottlenecks in AI: high-quality training data.

We partner with top AI labs and did $XXM last quarter alone, with a team of roughly 40 people. We raised our Series A from firms including Matrix Partners, Swift Ventures, Y Combinator, and AI Grant.

Why Now

We're standing up data operations internationally - recording footage, hiring people on the ground, and building the local capacity those programs need. That work won't scale from SF alone. We need someone who's done on-the-ground ops and can expand teams internationally without waiting for a perfect playbook.

About the Role

We're hiring an International Field Operations Lead to help build and expand Sieve's on-the-ground operations abroad. You'll help set up local collection (including recording footage), hire and manage people in-market, and turn early international efforts into reliable operating systems.

This is a hands-on ops role for someone with direct field experience - not a remote-only coordinator. You'll travel when needed, solve problems in the moment, and build the teams and processes that make international data collection repeatable.

What You'll Do

• Stand up international ops: Help launch and expand on-the-ground operations in priority markets, including footage recording and related collection workflows.
• Hire and grow local teams: Source, hire, onboard, and manage people in-market; build the staffing model as volume grows.
• Own day-to-day field execution: Solve logistics, quality, scheduling, and vendor/partner issues so collection stays on track.
• Build repeatable playbooks: Turn one-off market launches into documented processes for hiring, training, quality control, and escalation.
• Partner with SF product and ops: Translate project requirements into field plans; feed back what's working and what breaks in-market.
• Scale carefully: Balance speed with quality, compliance, and contributor/operator experience as we expand.

What Success Looks Like

• Live international ops that reliably deliver footage and other required data
• Local teams hired, trained, and producing without constant firefighting from SF
• Clear playbooks for launching and expanding into new markets
• Improving quality, throughput, and time-to-launch across sites
• Strong coordination between field teams and SF stakeholders

Requirements

• Direct on-the-ground operations experience, ideally expanding teams internationally
• Track record hiring and managing people in the field (contractors, vendors, or full-time)
• Comfort with ambiguity, travel, and building systems where none exist yet
• Strong operator instincts: logistics, quality, people management, and follow-through
• Clear communicator across time zones and cultures
• Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate; able to travel internationally as needed

Nice to Have

• Experience in data collection, media production, field research, marketplace ops, or logistics in emerging markets
• Prior work standing up ops in multiple countries
• Familiarity with physical AI, robotics, or AI training data workflows
• Language skills relevant to priority markets

Benefits

• 401(k) and full health insurance
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner covered, plus your choice of snacks
• Ubers covered home

All roles at Sieve require you to be onsite in San Francisco 5 days per week