Data Quality Partner Lead

Responsibilities

• Own Figure’s external annotation and review vendor strategy end to end, from sourcing through onboarding through ongoing performance management
• Build the vendor pipeline from zero by identifying and engaging BPOs, specialized labeling firms, crowdsourcing platforms, and emerging providers in the AI data ecosystem
• Run structured evaluations of prospective vendors, including pilots, quality benchmarking, and capacity testing, and make clear recommendations on who to scale with
• Translate the Data Quality team’s standards and methodologies into vendor specs, making sure the bar we set internally is the bar our partners deliver against
• Stand up the operating model for managing partners at scale, including scorecards, escalation paths, and the tooling

Requirements

• 5+ years in vendor management, BPO/outsourcing partnerships, strategic sourcing, or operations roles with significant external partner ownership
• Track record of building or scaling a vendor function from an early stage, ideally in a domain where quality was the primary lever
• Comfortable rapidly building and deploying apps/agents using AI coding tools to build internal tools, dashboards, and trackers (zero technical academic background necessary)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially when setting expectations with external partners
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and managing multiple concurrent partner relationships
• A low ego, team player with a can-do attitude

Bonus Qualifications

• Direct experience managing data annotation, labeling, or content review vendors
• Background at a frontier AI lab, autonomous vehicle company, or other organization where data quality at scale was a core problem
• A passion for helping scale the deployment of learning humanoid robots

Pay & Benefits

The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $120,000 – $180,000 annually.