Director of Embodied AI, Data Foundry

Director of Embodied AI, Data Foundry

Stord operates the largest independent e‑commerce fulfillment network in the U.S., with 20+ fulfillment centers, 4,000+ warehouse associates, and nearly 100million packages shipped annually. We are building a new business line that turns this operational infrastructure into valuable training data assets in physical AI.

• Close customers: run customer discovery and close initial pilot deals with humanoid robotics, labs, and physical AI companies. Sit across from their VPs of AI and Heads of Data, understand their training pipeline needs, and translate that into what Stord delivers.
• Define and deliver the product: own the data product across quality tiers—from RGB egocentric video through depth‑enhanced and full multimodal capture with hand pose and annotations. Decide what gets built, in what order, based on what buyers will actually pay for. Hold the line on quality.
• Run the capture and delivery program: stand up the warehouse capture operation—camera and rig hardware selection, enrollment, edge processing, and processing pipelines that package datasets for delivery. Coordinate across warehouse operations, engineering, and customers to ship datasets on spec and on schedule.
• Build the team: hire and lead a small, senior team, expanding as the business scales. Set technical direction and quality bar; make architecture and trade‑off decisions without needing to write every line of code.

• Run a data operation or data product end to end at a robotics or AI data company, owning the full lifecycle: defining data to collect, managing capture and annotation, deploying hardware capture systems, ensuring quality, and delivering to ML teams.
• Technical expertise in computer vision and ML data formats, able to read pipeline designs and judge their soundness.
• Commercial instinct: experience selling data products to robotics or AI labs, or having purchased data and identifying what makes a dataset worth paying for.
• Execution across many moving parts, able to mediate between engineering, operations, and customers, and drive deals to close.

• A rare opportunity to build a high‑growth business from the ground up with infrastructure and resources to support.
• A structural moat that no startup can replicate.
• Direct access to the fastest‑growing buyer market in AI.
• A CTO/Co-Founder as your direct partner who will run initial buyer conversations alongside you and remove internal obstacles.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Stord participates in E‑verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I‑9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.