Data Quality Partner Lead

Responsibilities

• Own Figure’s external annotation and review vendor strategy end to end, from sourcing and onboarding to ongoing performance management
• Build the vendor pipeline from zero by identifying and engaging BPOs, specialized labeling firms, and crowdsourcing platforms
• Run structured evaluations of prospective vendors, including pilots, quality benchmarking, and capacity testing
• Translate Data Quality team standards and methodologies into clear vendor specifications
• Establish the operating model for managing partners at scale, including scorecards, escalation paths, and internal tooling

Requirements

• 5+ years in vendor management, BPO/outsourcing partnerships, strategic sourcing, or operations roles
• Proven track record of building or scaling a vendor function from an early stage
• Ability to rapidly build and deploy apps or agents using AI coding tools to create internal dashboards and trackers
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for setting expectations with external partners
• Ability to operate with ambiguity and manage multiple concurrent partner relationships
• Low ego, team player with a can-do attitude

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience managing data annotation, labeling, or content review vendors
• Background at a frontier AI lab, autonomous vehicle company, or similar organization focused on large-scale data quality
• A passion for helping scale the deployment of learning humanoid robots

About the Company

Figure is an AI Robotics company developing a general purpose humanoid designed for corporate tasks, targeting labor shortages and jobs that are undesirable or unsafe. We are based in San Jose, CA.