Data Collection Manager, Nimble Brain

Nimble Robotics•San Francisco, CA

3h•$120,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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.

Nice To Haves

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 throughput simultaneously (not just one).
Multi-shift and multi-site operations experience.

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.