Contractual Team Lead - Robotics Labs

Position: Contractual || Team Lead - Robotics Labs
Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.

About the Role
We are seeking a Team Lead to oversee the day-to-day operations of a Robotic AI project focused on physical and cognitive task completion—such as sorting, assembling, matching, and other hands-on activities. The ideal candidate will be experienced in leading operational teams, managing quality assurance, and ensuring timely delivery of tasks while coordinating with internal stakeholders.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you will be responsible for ensuring operational excellence, managing a team of AI task agents/operators, and being the key link between execution and strategic oversight.

Working Days - Monday to Saturday
Location - Hyderabad
In this role, you’ll:
Hiring new agents and build the team
Mentor and manage a team of agents/operators performing task-based physical and data-driven workflows
Oversee day-to-day operations related to AI task execution, including sorting, assembling, matching, and other process-driven activities
Maintain high QA standards by creating SOP’s, defining and enforcing quality control processes
Review completed work regularly to ensure compliance with requirements and provide corrective feedback where needed.
Act as the main point of contact between the operations team and project stakeholders
Extremely adept at using AI tools to solve problems - most important is chat

GPT to come up with task ideas for agents.

Required Qualifications
3+ years of experience in team leadership roles, preferably in operations, BPO, or technology-driven task environments.
Demonstrated experience managing task-driven teams in fast-paced, dynamic environments.
Why Join Us
Play a key leadership role in an innovative AI-powered data capture initiative.
Lead a hands-on project with tangible outcomes and a dynamic environment.
Competitive compensation, perks like commute, food

Our Values
Empathy, Trust & Candor
We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback.
Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct!
Always Be Learning
We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry.
Act Like an Owner
We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.