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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Collection Manager - **Company:** Nimble Robotics - **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $180,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Uptime, Motion Capture, Operational Databases - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/data-collection-manager-nimble-brain-nimble-robotics-9647744 ## About the Role * 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., * 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. ## Description 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. 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. 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