Operations Manager, Robotics Data

About the role

ABOUT US

Foundry Robotics is building an AI-native robotics manufacturing company focused on deploying advanced assembly and production capability for leading robotics companies and national-security-critical hardware. Basically, we’re building robots that build robots.

We are reimagining manufacturing through advanced robotics. Our mission is to rebuild the American manufacturing industry as an AI-first, assembly-focused, dual-use contract manufacturer. We aim to empower manufacturers with intelligent, efficient, and adaptable robotic systems that redefine productivity and quality.

THE ROLE

This role is for an Operations Manager who thrives on building and running a high-performance contractor workforce, equally comfortable designing onboarding programs from first principles and walking the floor to fix what's broken in real time. You will own the people-and-process layer that turns billable contractor hours into delivered, usable data, managing 50+ operators executing UMI gripper, egocentric, and VR teleop data collection against real customer contracts. You will stand up workforce operations from scratch and drive rapid build-test-learn cycles to deliver an operation that is both rigorous and scalable.

You will partner closely with the Technical Program Manager, Robotics Data, to own rig calibration, QA spec, and the data pipeline handoff. Together you are accountable for whether the floor ships what the model teams need.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Own the end-to-end workforce lifecycle for 50+ operators, including sourcing, screening, hiring, onboarding, certification, performance management, and offboarding

- Run the daily operations cadence, including shift planning, station assignments, breaks, and coverage

- Manage shift leads (3–5 direct reports) and operate escalation paths into engineering

- Build and review operator scorecards weekly, tracking success rate, rejection rate, and throughput, surfacing and managing the 60–95% quality variance common across operators

- Design and execute a quality-first incentive structure

- Build the onboarding curriculum and certification gating, ensuring no operator captures production data until certified on the rig and task

- Run live floor QA, catching issues in real time against SOPs co-authored with the TPM

- Execute operator training, certification, and pilot batch readiness when new tasks ramp up

- Own fleet readiness on the floor, including daily rig health checks, in-shift swaps, spares staging, and ensuring every station is production-ready at shift start

- Own contractor timekeeping, the payroll vendor relationship, and floor logistics including layout, station configuration, supplies, badging, safety, EHS, and facilities

- Manage VR teleop floor logistics, including headset hygiene, motion sickness rotation policies, and controller battery and charging logistics