About the role
Liva AI is a multimodal data company. Our mission is to help build more inclusive and emotionally intelligent AI that can interact with people more naturally. We’re already a partner to frontier AI labs and voice agent companies.
We’re hiring a Founding Operations Lead to take on a full-time, high-ownership role. You’ll run data collection projects from the ground up, manage contributors and contractors, solve problems quickly, and keep projects moving without needing much direction.
This role is for someone who is extremely organized, intense, and reliable. You should be comfortable owning messy operational work end to end, figuring out what needs to happen, getting the right people in place, tracking every detail, and making sure the work gets done.
Over time, you’ll be one of the most important people helping us build the most automated operations system of any data company, turning manual workflows into scalable systems that let us move faster with less manual work.
Responsibilities
- Design data collection, QA, and annotation processes from scratch
- Work with top AI labs to understand their feedback and improve the quality of the data
- Help design workflows where humans and AI agents work together effectively
- Manage contributors, contractors, and day-to-day project execution
- Turn messy, manual workflows into clear systems that can scale across future projects
- Track project quality, speed, and blockers to make sure data is delivered on time and meets customer requirements
Requirements
- Willing to move to San Francisco
- Comfortable working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented
- Strong problem solver who can operate in uncertain situations
- Experience managing people
