Sieve
Data Collection Partnerships Lead
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience in supplier development, vendor operations, data operations, outsourcing, or a related role with direct responsibility for external partner delivery.
About the job
Build and manage Sieve’s global network of data-collection vendors, taking partners from sourcing and negotiation through pilots and sustained production.
What you'll do
- Source and qualify vendors, assess their capabilities, and run sample reviews and pilots with technical teams.
- Negotiate commercial terms and agreements, then coordinate partner onboarding and production ramp-up.
- Manage ongoing vendor performance across data quality, accepted collection hours, cost, coverage, and delivery; resolve operational issues.
What they ask for
- Track record of personally sourcing, negotiating with, onboarding, and scaling suppliers or operational partners.
- Experience managing partner performance against quality, volume, timeline, and cost commitments, including resolving missed targets.
- Strong commercial and analytical judgment, including evaluating pricing, modeling unit economics, and forecasting capacity.
- Technical fluency, clear communication, organization, and willingness to travel to partner operations; based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.
Nice to have
- Experience with data collection, annotation, human-in-the-loop services, robotics, egocentric video, wearable capture systems, or AI training data.
- Experience building multi-country supplier networks, leading a small operations team, or using SQL, scripting, or automation.
Tools
SQL
AI focus
Build the external data-collection partner network that supplies training data for AI, including robotics and physical AI.
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