Founding Operations - India

Overview

Run Sieve's data collection operation in India, starting in Bengaluru, taking sites from confirmed access through to live daily deployments and building a repeatable system as sites and cities are added.

What you'll do

• Coordinate site schedules, hardware delivery and setup, operator onboarding, and the first days of collection at each new site.
• Visit sites often, resolve practical issues quickly, and make sure footage meets the quality bar every day.
• Source, onboard, schedule, and manage the operators who wear the capture rigs and the coordinators who support them.
• Coordinate required site permissions and participant consents with the team before recording begins.
• Track inventory, charging, repairs, and movement of capture rigs across sites.
• Identify factories, workshops, kitchens, warehouses, and other workplaces that fit collection needs, and reach the people who can approve access.
• Use your network, referrals, cold outreach, and door-to-door visits to meet owners and operators, explain the work, earn trust, and work with the U.S. team to turn interest into confirmed access.

What you'll need

• 2+ years running field, city, supply, or fleet operations at a marketplace, gig-work, logistics, or data collection company.
• Experience building an operation locally from scratch, or as an early hire who set up processes that didn't exist before.
• Experience winning business or partnerships: sourcing new accounts, sites, or supply, and closing access with small and mid-sized business owners.
• Experience managing a frontline or distributed workforce: hiring, training, scheduling, and quality.
• Comfortable approaching business owners directly, visiting sites, handling objections, and following through.
• Resourceful and proactive: able to find a way to reach the right person and keep work moving without a detailed playbook.
• Organized enough to manage several sites, a workforce, and deployment details at the same time.
• Clear communication in English plus Kannada, Hindi, or Tamil.
• Willingness to spend substantial time in the field and travel within India as needed.

Nice to have

• Experience with hardware deployments, wearables, or logistics.
• Experience at a company collecting egocentric, video, or AI training data, or at a gig-work platform.
• Existing relationships with business owners, industry groups, or local operators in Bengaluru or South India.

Details

• Based in India, starting in Bengaluru.
• Substantial time on the ground most days, with travel within India as needed.