Data Collection Manager, Nimble Brain

About this role

About Nimble

Nimble is an AI robotics company building the autonomous supply chain to power fast, efficient and economical commerce. We’re training robot AGI to power a proprietary generalist supply chain superhumanoid, the first robot in the world capable of performing thousands of tasks across the supply chain. We’ve raised over $220M at over $1B valuation and formed a strategic alliance with FedEx to build a national network of autonomous warehouses capable of generating many billions in annual revenue. We are a hardcore and obsessed team of the world’s best engineers and operators. If you are obsessed with your craft, enjoy a high-intensity and fast moving high impact environment, are super high agency in getting hard things done and want to be part of building the world’s most legendary robotics company at the most pivotal moment in history, we want to work with you.

We are on a mission to empower and inspire mankind to accomplish legendary feats by inventing robots that liberate us from the menial. We will accomplish this by training robot AGI to invent and build the Autonomous Supply Chain – everything from the inside of factories and warehouses to your front door – powered by generalist superhumanoids.

Our founding team comes from the AI labs at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon and our board of directors include famed robotics and AI legends including Fei-Fei Li (Chief Scientist of AI at Google and Director of Stanford’s AI Lab), Marc Raibert (founder of Boston Dynamics), and Sebastian Thrun (founder of GoogleX, Waymo; Stanford Professor and considered the father of autonomous vehicles).

Let’s be legendary.

Link: Nimble Closes $106 Million Series C Funding Round, Scales Fully Autonomous Fulfillment with FedEx

Link: FedEx Announces Expansion of FedEx Fulfillment With Nimble Alliance

Why Join Nimble?

At Nimble, we are committed to building legendary products, a legendary team, and a legendary legacy. Join us and become part of an ambitious, humble, and resourceful culture where your work will leave a lasting impact on the future of robotics and commerce.

Nimble's Core Values:

Be relentlessly resourceful - Challenge conventions and overcome obstacles.

Be legendary - Be the very best and do work that inspires.

Be humble - Prioritize growth, learning, and doing whatever is needed to further the mission.

Be dependable - Take ownership and deliver with high agency.

Position Overview

Nimble Brain turns real-world operational data into the training sets, evaluations, and feedback loops that make our robots smarter every day. That data comes from our data collection sites: teams of skilled operators performing and recording the physical tasks our superhumanoids learn from, shift after shift, at high volume and high quality.

We’re looking for a Data Collection Manager to own one of those sites end to end. This is the top operational job at the site: you run the floor. Operators, supervisors, shift structure, hiring, onboarding, throughput, uptime, safety, morale — if it happens at your site, it’s yours.

This is a hands-on, floor-first leadership role. Success looks like a site that ramps fast and runs like clockwork: new operators certified and productive in days, quality feedback acted on within 24 hours, rigs up, people showing up, and a bench of supervisors you developed yourself.

Responsibilities

• Own daily site operations end to end: collection throughput, quality at the source, rig uptime (with on-site technicians), safety, attendance, and team morale.

• Build and lead the supervisor layer — roughly one shift lead per 8–12 operators — and design the shift structure (including evening shifts) that maximizes rig utilization.

• Hire at volume in partnership with recruiting: run working interviews, make offer decisions for operators and supervisors, and manage the pipeline through ramp waves.

• Run onboarding and training reps that get new operators to the certification bar fast — no one collects production data before passing it — and own time-to-certification as your ramp metric.

• Execute the operator quality feedback loop on the floor: act on operator-level quality scorecards within 24 hours through coaching, re-certification, or performance management. Quality standards are set centrally; making them real at your site is your job.

• Own and report your site’s metrics daily: accepted episodes per operator-hour, rig uptime, attendance, 90-day retention, time-to-certification, and safety.

• Manage attrition proactively — this is repetitive, precision work, and keeping a high-performing hourly team engaged is a core skill of the role.

• Feed what you learn into the site playbook: this is a template role, and what works at your site becomes how we launch the next one.

Qualifications

• 4+ years leading hourly operational teams of 20+ — including managing through shift leads or supervisors — in warehouse/fulfillment, manufacturing, production, BPO, or comparable high-throughput physical operations.

• A track record of hiring and onboarding at volume: you’ve run hiring waves, working interviews, and the first-90-days retention battle that follows.

• Metrics-driven daily management — you run your floor from a dashboard and a walk, not a gut feel.

• Experience with direct performance management, including the hard conversations when someone isn’t meeting the bar.

• Floor-first presence: this is an on-site role, and the job happens where the work happens.

• High agency and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced, high-growth environment — your site may double while you’re running it.

• Alignment with Nimble’s values: relentlessly resourceful, humble, dependable, and committed to legendary impact.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in robotics, AV, motion capture, or AI data collection operations.

• Experience launching a new site, line, or facility from zero — greenfield ramp experience is directly transferable.

• Experience being accountable for quality and

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