About the role
About us
Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.
Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.
The role
As a General Manager, you’ll join as a first leadership hire in the region to scale our India delivery hub: building a high-calibre team, setting the cultural standard, and creating an industry-leading project delivery capability.
You'll work closely with our business leadership, GTM, Product and Tech teams globally, with the long-term goal of scaling the India org to several hundred people. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on variety and ambiguity, understands what it takes to build a world-class operation in a new hub and cares deeply about the talent bar and the company’s image.
What you'll do
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Build the organisation. You'll shape how the team is structured, and set the standard for everything that follows — with the goal of growing to several hundred people over time.
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Turn strategy into execution. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership to break down company priorities into concrete plans, clear ownership, and the operational discipline needed to actually deliver them across the India function.
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Create the operating backbone. Establish the rhythms and routines — planning cycles, performance cadences, leadership check-ins — that keep a fast-scaling team focused, aligned, and moving without losing momentum.
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Fix what's slowing us down. Proactively identify where the organisation is getting stuck — whether that's process gaps, capacity constraints, or structural friction — and build solutions that scale as we grow.
