Country Operations Lead, Philippines

About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.

We partner with leading AI labs and robotics companies to deliver high-quality, real-world datasets used to train, evaluate, and deploy robotic systems. Our work sits directly between research, data, and real-world execution — where model performance is dictated by data quality.

Robotics will become the largest industry in human history — larger than anything that has come before it. As intelligent machines move into the physical world, they will dramatically expand global GDP, raise the material standard of living for everyone, and ultimately help make humanity a multiplanetary civilization
. None of that happens without one thing: enormous amounts of high-quality, real-world data.

Mecka AI builds that foundation. We are the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI — the substrate that teaches machines to perceive, reason, and act in reality. Get this right, and we accelerate the most important technological transition of our time.

• Excellence as the baseline. We hold an extremely high bar and expect the best work of your career. Mediocrity isn't interesting to us.

• Highly technical. We reason from first principles
  , not by analogy. The best argument wins — regardless of title or tenure.

• Truth-seeking. We are relentlessly honest with ourselves and each other. We chase reality — measured, not assumed — and kill our own bad ideas fast.

• Maniacal urgency. The work matters and the clock is real. We move fast, ship, measure, and iterate.

• Extreme ownership. You own outcomes end-to-end — no hand-offs, no excuses, no waiting for permission.

• Hardcore. This is a high-intensity environment for people who want to do the defining work of their lives.

We're hiring a Country Operations Lead, Philippines to own and grow Mecka's on-the-ground operations in Philippines.

Philippines is one of our strategic operating geographies — where we run data collection, annotation, and robotics deployment programs that feed our global customers. We need a senior local operator to build the team, run the site, and turn Philippines into one of Mecka's strongest delivery engines.

This role reports to Mecka's Operations Lead. You will be the most senior Mecka leader in Philippines — the face of the company locally and the single owner of country-level execution.

Mecka AI works with leading AI labs, foundation model teams, and robotics companies to deliver high-quality, real-world datasets used to train and deploy the next generation of robotic systems. Our data supports visuomotor learning, imitation learning, and real-world robotic control. Quality, trust, and execution are core to our partnerships.

• End-to-End Country Ownership: Own end-to-end operations in Philippines: data collection sites, annotation operations, and robotics deployment programs.

• Country-Level Targets: Hit country-level targets across throughput, quality, cost, and on-time delivery.

• Budget & Margin: Manage the country budget, vendor spend, and operating margin.

• Executive Reporting: Report country performance to the Operations Lead and broader exec team.

• Local Team Building: Hire, develop, and lead the local team: operations managers, project leads, field operators, recruiters, and support staff.

• Org Design: Build the local org structure from the ground up where it doesn't exist, or scale it where it does.

• Manager Development: Coach and grow local managers into stronger operators.

• Execution Culture: Foster a culture of ownership, clarity, and execution.

• Customer Program Delivery: Own delivery of all customer programs running in-country.

• HQ Alignment: Partner with HQ Strategic Project Leads and Deployment teams to align local execution with global customer commitments.

• Local Operating Standards: Stand up local SOPs, playbooks, and quality frameworks that match Mecka's global standards.

• Operating Cadence: Run the daily and weekly cadence that keeps programs on track.

• Workforce Management: Build and manage Mecka's local workforce: contributors,…