Values

Here are our Company Values and we’d love to have individuals who can be a culture add to our team!

What We Offer

• Permanently Remote
• Pay wired directly to your bank account
• $50 Monthly Stipend
• Annual Bonus
• Flexible PTO
• Enjoy company time off during some of the major US and PH Holidays
• Company-issued Device
• Career fast track for performers and internal mobility
• Learn from a team of Stanford, MIT, Google and Harvard alumni

Grow With Us

Workstream is looking for an Operations Manager for Global Data Operations. In this role, you will lead the most critical data-gathering initiative for Workstream’s robotics division. You will partner closely with the Recruiting and People Ops teams to drive high-volume participant acquisition, while taking direct ownership of the ongoing management and data output quality of hundreds of participants helping robots "learn" how to interact with the world. Your goal is to ensure we hit our weekly footage targets while maintaining compliance with data quality standards.

This isn't just a standard operations role; you are building the foundation for the future of robotics. You will manage a truly global operation that bridges the gap between high-volume data collection and high-level AI research.

Day in the Life

Team Management & Leadership

• Lead and mentor a large, distributed team of Video Data Contributors and potentially a small team of Team Leads or Quality Auditors.
• Lab Management: Oversee a physical Workstream Lab, managing office-based team members who utilize complex multi-camera wearable setups to capture high-fidelity data.
• Conduct weekly "Office Hours" and Q&A sessions to troubleshoot contributor issues and provide feedback on recording techniques.
• Monitor contributor engagement and retention, implementing strategies to reduce churn in a month-to-month contract environment.

High-Volume Recruitment & Onboarding

• Technical Guidance: Collaborate with the Recruiting team to provide specific technical criteria for candidates, ensuring they possess the right hardware and high attention to detail.
• Onboarding: Partner with People Ops to facilitate a seamless transition, ensuring contributors are immediately integrated into filming and data protocols.
• Equipment Verification: Coordinate with Recruiting on the verification of equipment (head-straps and camera specs) to ensure every new participant is project-ready.

Data Quality & Feedback Loop

• Quality Assurance: Lead a team of reviewers to audit footage for "usability" (hand/arm movement vs. idle activities).
• Continuous Improvement: Update the "Guidelines Presentation" and training materials based on common failure points in the footage (e.g., poor lighting or incorrect camera angles).
• Technical Troubleshooting: Act as the final escalation point for hardware compatibility issues or Google Drive upload failures.

Financial & Compliance Oversight

• Compensation: Manage the complex tiered compensation structure and bonus payouts.
• Payroll Partnership: Ensure all monthly payments via Deel are accurate and submitted within payout cycles.
• Data Privacy: Ensure strict adherence to compliance guidelines, ensuring no personal information is captured in the uploaded data.

Who You Are

• Management: 6+ years in Operations Management, specifically leading distributed or "gig" workforces.
• Technical Proficiency: You are technically savvy and comfortable managing/troubleshooting multi-camera hardware. You must be able to master and teach the technical nuances of multi-angle recording to ensure data integrity.
• Global Operations: Experience managing teams across the Philippines and the US, including understanding the cultural and logistical differences in both markets.
• Analytical Mindset: Ability to look at "Unusable Footage" data and pinpoint exactly where the training or the recruitment filter is failing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in AI Data Labeling or Computer Vision data collection.
• Experience with hardware logistics (inventorying and shipping head-straps or smartphones).
• A background in BPO Management or Marketplace Operations (e.g., Uber, DoorDash, TaskRabbit).

Help Shape the Future of Robotics, Earn Income
We’re looking for paid participants to record everyday activities in our Menlo Park lab using a multi-camera setup (head, chest, and wrist-mounted cameras). Your recordings will help train robots to better understand and interact with the real world.
No technical experience required, just your time, attention to detail and willingness to follow simple instructions. This is a part-time, office-based role requiring presence to record on a consistent schedule for up to 3 days a week at our Menlo office. 

What to Expect
    •    A typical arrangement is 3-5x a week in-office, filming for 2-4 hours at a time
    •    Each session involves recording structured, guided tasks
    •    No robotics or technical background needed
    •    Project runs month-to-month based on performance and availability
    •    Simple setup: just arrive, record and get paid

Day In the Life
You’ll record yourself performing common, everyday tasks such as:
    •    Picking up, placing, stacking, and organizing objects
    •    Sorting items by size, color, or category
    •    Using simple tools (e.g., scissors, screwdriver, utensils)
    •    Cleaning, wiping, or tidying surfaces
    •    Folding laundry or arranging items
    •    Reaching for and placing objects at different distances
    •    Sample footage： https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p2qpCFdPFIw8o1qx0cgLnp9rn4O-QL-S/view?usp=sharing

Your goal is to capture 20 hours of high-quality video per week in our office.

Compensation
    •    Compensation is $22.00/hr of quality footage produced
    •    1099 independent contractor role (no benefits or equity)

Who You Are
    •    Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and able to travel to Menlo Park
    •    Authorized to work in the US (citizen or Green Card holder). No OPT or CPT
    •    Detail-oriented and able to follow instructions carefully
    •    Comfortable performing light physical tasks (standing, reaching, handling objects)
    •    Able to move naturally and deliberately during recordings
    •    Reliable and punctual for scheduled sessions
    •    Willing to complete a background check

Who Can Apply
We welcome people from all backgrounds. If you’re reliable, comfortable on camera, and looking for flexible, hands-on work, we encourage you to apply—even if you’re not sure you meet every requirement.

As a general requirement, please complete this form: https://forms.gle/G6AcJWLDvbtM8sJh8

⚠️ CRITICAL PHONE CAMERA REQUIREMENTS

To be considered for this role, you must have a smartphone that meets the following specifications. If your device does not meet these standards, your footage cannot be used, and you will not be qualified for payment:

• Video Resolution: 1080p
• Frame Rate: 30 FPS
• Lens Setting: 0.5x or 0.6x Wide Angle lens

Project Overview

We are looking for paid participants to record videos of everyday activities while wearing a head-mounted camera. Your recordings will help robotics systems learn to perceive, understand, and interact with real-world environments.

You’ll record yourself doing tasks you already do in daily life, such as:

• Folding laundry
• Preparing or cooking food
• Cleaning, tidying, or organizing items
• Rearranging or sorting objects

Participants may or may not be assigned specific tasks, depending on project needs.

Sample footage: Click here

If you’re detail-oriented, comfortable performing everyday tasks, and want to earn additional income while contributing to cutting-edge robotics research, we’d love to work with you!

🎬 What to Expect

• Weekly footage goal: Capture at least 10 hours of clear, intentional arm, hand, and finger movements interacting with objects (e.g., folding clothes, using a screwdriver).
  Avoid low-value activities such as typing, using your phone, or sitting idle.
• Uploads & quality checks: Upload videos to Google Drive on time, perform basic quality checks, and track your daily filming progress.
• Compensation: Paid based on total usable footage
  Unusable footage includes dark videos, clips showing only fingers (not full hands/arms), idle activities, or videos capturing personal information.
• Project duration: Month-to-month, giving you flexibility

👉 Film as much high-quality, task-specific footage as you want—earn extra income while completing everyday tasks!

🏠 Day in the Life

• Wear your phone via a head strap
• Film tasks following best practices
• Ensure recordings are successful before uploading to Drive
• Get paid!

⚠️ Compliance & Participation Requirements

To ensure project success, participants are expected to:

• Use the required phone camera specifications
• Meet the required filming hours
• Follow all submission guidelines

We encourage open communication if you encounter challenges so we can support you. Repeated failure to meet requirements without a valid and communicated reason may result in termination of participation and contract.

🙋‍♂️ Who You Are

• Own a smartphone with a wide camera (0.5x zoom) capable of 1080p / 30 FPS 
• Have access to a computer/laptop and stable internet for uploads
• Able to follow detailed instructions carefully
• Comfortable performing light physical tasks
• Able to move naturally, slowly, and deliberately during recordings
• Familiar with uploading and organizing files in Google Drive

💰 Compensation

• $2 USD/hour for the first 10 hours (initial period)
• $3 USD/hour for all subsequent approved footage

Note: If you don't meet the camera resolution and orientation requirements, you are NOT qualified to participate. Your videos will NOT be approved. 

🎯 Bonuses

• $10 USD headgear reimbursement after first 10 hours (regardless of approval)
• $10 USD bonus after next 10 hours of approved footage
• $20 USD bonus after reaching 50 approved hours within the first month

📌 Payment Terms

• Paid only for approved, qualified footage
• Payments processed via Deel monthly
• Footage must be submitted and approved within the payout cycle

🌎 Who Can Apply

We welcome participants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of race, gender, age, disability, or background.

Even if you’re unsure whether you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply!

🚀 Getting Started

To begin, please review the full guidelines for detailed instructions, approved activities, and rate information and complete the screening questions below. 

Grow With Us

We are looking for a highly technical, customer-obsessed, and execution-driven Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) to bridge the gap between Workstream’s product platform and our customers’ most complex operational challenges.

In this role, you will operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer deployment—embedding deeply with strategic customers to design, build, and deploy high-impact technical solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. You will own end-to-end deployments from discovery and technical scoping through implementation, iteration, and scaled adoption.

This is a high-ownership role for engineers who thrive in ambiguity, move quickly from prototype to production, and want to solve real-world business problems rather than just build in abstraction. You will work directly with customers, internal product and engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to shape deployment strategy while identifying reusable patterns that influence Workstream’s broader platform roadmap. This structure mirrors leading forward-deployed models where engineers embed closely with customers, ship quickly, and feed field insights back into core product development.

This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring presence 3 days a week in our Menlo Park office to foster close collaboration with cross-functional teams. 

Day in the Life

• Own technical delivery across strategic customer deployments from initial discovery through production launch and long-term adoption
• Embed closely with enterprise customers to understand workflows, operational pain points, and technical requirements
• Scope, architect, and build custom solutions, integrations, workflows, and product extensions that deliver measurable customer value
• Write production-grade code across backend, frontend, APIs, integrations, or automation layers as needed to accelerate deployment
• Translate ambiguous customer problems into structured technical roadmaps and execution plans
• Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Sales, Customer Success, and Leadership to align deployments with business priorities
• Make trade-offs between speed, scope, scalability, and productization while protecting customer outcomes
• Identify repeatable deployment patterns and convert one-off customer solutions into scalable product capabilities
• Serve as a strategic technical advisor to customers, helping shape adoption, implementation strategy, and long-term success
• Surface field learnings, customer pain points, and deployment insights back to Workstream’s core product roadmap
•  

Who You Are

• 4+ years of experience in robotics, computer vision, machine learning, data science or model building
• Strong full-stack technical capability (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, APIs, SQL, integrations, or similar)
• Proven ability to own and deliver complex technical projects in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Experience working directly with customers or external stakeholders on technical implementations
• Exceptional problem-solving skills with a bias toward action and first-principles thinking
• Ability to move quickly from prototype to production while maintaining quality
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• High ownership mindset with pride in end-to-end accountability
• Comfort balancing immediate customer needs with long-term scalable product thinking

Bonus Points

• Experience in HR tech, SaaS, payroll, hiring, or workforce management platforms
• Background in forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, implementation engineering, or technical consulting
• Experience building integrations, workflow automation, or AI-powered operational tools
• Familiarity with enterprise deployments, APIs, data pipelines, or systems architecture
• Previous experience at high-growth startups, Palantir-style deployment teams, or customer-facing product engineering organizations

Why This Role Is Different

This is not traditional software engineering, sales engineering, or implementation support. Forward Deployed Engineers at Workstream act more like startup operators or technical mini-GMs for strategic deployments—owning customer outcomes, shipping production systems quickly, and shaping the future product through execution. The best candidates are engineers who want to build, deploy, and influence product direction simultaneously.

What We Offer

• A mission-driven and value-based company dedicated to empower deskless workers and local businesses
• An early employee opportunity at a Series B hyper-growth startup; work with the founding team and industry veterans to accelerate your career
• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision. We pay 95% of your premiums for our employees and 85% for dependents
• In office amenities and stocked kitchen
• 401K Plan 
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Learning/development stipend
• Flexible PTO

Salary Range

In compliance with the California Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role is between $150k to $180k base in San Francisco. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

Values

Here are our Company Values and we’d love to have individuals who can be a culture add to our team!

What We Offer

• Permanently Remote
• Pay wired directly to your bank account
• $50 Monthly Stipend
• Annual Bonus
• Performance-based bonuses
• Flexible PTO
• Enjoy company time off during some of the major US and PH Holidays
• Company-issued Device
• Career fast track for performers and internal mobility
• Learn from a team of Stanford, MIT, Google and Harvard alumni

Grow With Us

Workstream is looking for a Team Lead for our Global Data Operations. As a Team Lead, you are the critical link between the front-line contributors and our business operations. You will manage the entire lifecycle of a Video Data Contributor: identifying high-potential candidates, guiding them through onboarding, managing their daily output, and ensuring their hours are verified for payment.

Day in the Life

Real-Time Communication & Support

• Communication Management: Serve as the primary moderator and responder for the team’s group chats and 1-on-1 chats.
• Rapid Troubleshooting: Address contributor inquiries regarding equipment setup, filming guidelines, and technical blockers in real-time to minimize downtime.
• Engagement: Broadcast project updates, celebrate top performers, and maintain a high-touch, supportive team culture.

Quality Assurance & Daily Ops

• Footage Auditing: Perform daily spot checks on video submissions to ensure they meet strict AI training requirements (lighting, 1080p/30FPS, 0.5x zoom).
• Feedback Loops: Deliver direct, constructive feedback to contributors whose footage is rejected to ensure future success.

Recruitment & People Ops Collaboration

• Candidate Screening: collaborate with Recruiting team in hiring new team members.
• Onboarding & Follow-up: guide new hires through the onboarding funnel, ensuring NDAs are signed, head-mounted cameras are configured correctly, and first-time uploads are successful.
• Retention: Identify "at-risk" contributors who are falling behind on hours and intervene to get them back on track.

Payroll & Finance Coordination

• Hours Verification: Audit weekly timesheets against Google Drive video uploads to ensure accuracy
• Finance Submission: Consolidate and submit "Ready-to-Pay" reports to the Finance department, ensuring contributors are paid accurately and on time.
• Payment Support: Resolve any pay-related discrepancies or inquiries from the team with transparency and speed.

Who You Are

• Experience: 3+ years leading remote or BPO teams, ideally in marketplace ops, "gig economy" management, or data labeling.
• Master Communicator: You are a "WhatsApp power user" who can manage high-volume messaging without losing track of details.
• Tech-Savvy: Highly proficient with Google Workspace (Sheets/Drive), Greenhouse (or similar ATS), and smartphone camera settings.
• People-First: You enjoy coaching others and are comfortable having firm conversations about quality and deadlines.
• Reliable: You understand that for a remote team, the Lead is the "glue" that keeps the operation from falling apart.
• Must be available to work during US business hours as needed.
• Exceptional English (written and verbal).
• Reliable high-speed internet and a quiet workspace for video calls.

Grow With Us

We are looking for a highly driven, analytical, and execution-focused Strategic Projects Lead (SPL) to own and deliver high-impact, cross-functional initiatives across Workstream. In this role, you will act as a force multiplier for the business—leading complex, ambiguous projects that directly impact revenue growth, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes. You will work closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams across product, sales, operations, and customer success to drive initiatives from concept through execution. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys solving complex problems with incomplete information, and takes full ownership of outcomes. You will be expected to move quickly, make high-quality decisions, and drive measurable business impact at scale.

This is a full-time, hybrid role requiring presence 5 days per week in our San Francisco or Menlo Park office.

What You’ll Do

• Managing a network of hundreds to thousands of people to collect video data and to engage and motivate workforce
• Own the end-to-end development of video data platform, from initial concept through scaled execution
• Design and build systems for collecting, organizing, labeling, and managing thousands of hours of video data
• Lead large-scale operational initiatives, including process design, implementation, and optimization across teams
• Partner closely with senior leadership to identify strategic opportunities and translate them into actionable plans
• Drive alignment across product, engineering, sales, and operations to ensure successful delivery of key initiatives
• Analyze data to identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and inform decision-making
• Build and refine scalable systems, processes, and playbooks to support company growth
• Manage timelines, resources, and stakeholders to deliver projects on schedule and at a high level of quality
• Communicate progress, insights, and recommendations clearly to executive stakeholders
• Step into ambiguous problem spaces and define structure, goals, and execution plans

Who You Are

• ​​4-8 years of experience in operations, strategy, product, consulting, finance, or a high-growth startup environment
• Proven track record of owning and executing complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business impact
• Strong systems thinking and ability to design scalable processes from scratch
• Ability to move quickly and make decisions with incomplete or evolving information
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to drive decisions
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including working with senior external partners
• High ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability
• Curiosity and ability to quickly ramp in technical domains such as AI, data platforms, or robotics
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and building in a 0→1 environment
• Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, cross-functional initiatives with measurable business outcomes

Nice to Have (Not Required)

• Experience managing large, distributed workforces or marketplaces 
• Exposure to AI data, model evaluation, or technical services delivery
• Background in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting

What We Offer

• A mission-driven and value-based company dedicated to empower deskless workers and local businesses
• An early employee opportunity at a Series B hyper-growth startup; work with the founding team and industry veterans to accelerate your career
• Competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision. We pay 95% of your premiums for our employees and 85% for dependents
• 401K Plan
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Learning/development stipend
• Flexible PTO

Salary Range

In compliance with the California Pay Transparency Law, the base salary range for this role is between $90k to $180k base in San Francisco. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data.

Help Shape the Future of Robotics, Earn Income

We are looking for paid participants to record videos of everyday activities at your home wearing a head-mounted camera. These videos will be used to help robotics to learn how to perceive, understand and interact with real-world environments. You will record yourself doing things you already do in your daily life such as folding laundry, making or preparing food, cleaning/tidying up and sorting items, rearranging items etc. If you’re detail-oriented, comfortable performing everyday tasks and earning additional income to contribute to cutting-edge robotics research, we’d love to work with you!

What to Expect

• Your main goal is to capture 20-40 hours of footage weekly that shows clear and intentional arm, hand and finger movements interacting with objects and your environment (e.g., folding clothes or using a screwdriver), rather than low-value activities like typing, using your phone, or sitting idle.
• On a weekly-basis, you will be required to upload your footage to a Google Drive on a timely basis, perform basic quality checks on recordings, and track your own day-to-day filming progress. 
• You will be compensated based off the total number of usable footage provided a monthly-basis.
• Examples of unusable footage: footage captured in the dark, footage showing only fingers and not your full hands and arms, footage of idle activities (sitting around, driving, using your phone, watching TV etc.), footage that captures personal information, etc. 
• Project duration will be assessed on a month-to-month basis
• You are free to film as much task-specific, high quality, usable footage as you want, making this a great way to earn some extra income whilst completing your already day-to-day tasks.

Day In the Life

• Wear your phone via a head strap
• Film tasks according to filming best practices
• Ensure successful recordings, before uploading the files to a drive for submission
• Get paid!

Example Tasks and Video

• Picking up, placing, and organizing objects
• Sorting items by size, color, or category
• Using simple tools (e.g., screwdriver, cloth, utensils)
• Cleaning or wiping surfaces
• Assembling or disassembling simple objects
• Reaching and placing objects at varying distances

Sample footage link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p2qpCFdPFIw8o1qx0cgLnp9rn4O-QL-S/view?usp=sharing

Compensation

• This is a 1099 independent contractor role compensated at $17.00 per hour of approved, usable video footage of you simply filming your already-everyday tasks.
• Usable footage constitutes footage clearly showing hand and arm movement, filmed in a well-lit environment completing activities relevant for robotics training.
• This role is not eligible for employee benefits or equity.

Who You Are

• You must be a US citizen, or Green Card holder
• Must be located in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Must have a smartphone with a wide camera (0.5x zoom) that films in 1080p minimum, 30 FPS, a computer + internet connection to upload videos
• Ability to follow detailed instructions carefully
• Comfort performing light physical tasks (standing, reaching, grasping objects)
• Ability to move naturally, slowly, and deliberately during recordings
• Reliability and punctuality for scheduled sessions
• Willing to go to our office once for a 1-time, 30-minute training 
• Open to go through a background check

Who Can Apply

We value participation from individuals of all backgrounds. All qualified participants will be considered regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or veteran status. Even if you’re unsure whether you meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply.