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Data Annotation Manager

Singapore, Central, Singapore

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What you’ll work on

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  • Direct daily annotation work and set priorities to meet task completion and SLA targets

  • Set and hit team productivity, quality, and operational goals

  • Handle hiring, onboarding, and performance reviews for the team

  • Coach team members and give continuous feedback on career growth

  • Streamline annotation workflows and remove bottlenecks, including through automation

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Direct the daily activities of data annotation team members, setting priorities to ensure task completion, SLA adherence
Set and ensure the achievement of operational goals owning the productivity, quality, and effectiveness of your team
Support the full employee lifecycle independently, including hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluation.
Effectively coach and mentor team members to support their career development and provide continuous feedback.
Drive efficiency through automation, removing bottlenecks

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

  • At least 6 years in data operations, data labeling, or ML annotation workflows
  • 2 years of experience leading and supervising team members
  • Proven people management, including performance reviews and coaching
  • Degree in any related technical field
Qualification wording
At least 6 years of Domain Expertise: Experience in data operations, data labeling, computer vision dataset creation, or machine learning annotation workflows.
2 years of Leadership Experience: Proven experience supervising team members
Demonstrated proficiency in managing the full employee lifecycle, conducting performance reviews, and coaching staff
Degree in any related technical field
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12 open jobs

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Demand for Data Leadership roles

New Data Leadership postings at the employers we follow are up 7% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.

Weekly new Data Leadership postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of October 26. The fewest in a week was 789, the most 1,207, and the latest week had 838.
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About the role

We file this job under Data Leadership, by the work the posting describes.

Data leaders run data teams or design how a company's data fits together. Managers hire, set priorities and answer for whether the data work pays off; architects choose the systems and the shape of the data.

Expect years of hands-on data work, experience leading people or projects, and the ability to explain tradeoffs to executives.

Unlike a senior engineer or analyst, most of a data leader's week goes to people, planning and decisions rather than building.

US government figures for computer and information systems managers

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$175,140
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
15.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for data leaders, so these figures are for the closest group, computer and information systems managers, which includes data processing and data operations managers.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 11-3021.

Job description

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Mission Summary:

Motional is seeking a Data Annotation Manager to join our Operations team. In this role, you will lead a team of high-performing team data specialists and project managers responsible for overseeing high-quality data used by our autonomous vehicle perception and other machine learning models. As a manager, you will own team productivity and operational effectiveness, manage the team’s employee lifecycle independently, and ensure team goals are met. You will build on your expertise in human labeled data and annotation workflows while exemplifying Motional’s core values and leadership behaviors.
 
What you'll be doing:
  • Supervise Daily Operations: Direct the daily activities of data annotation team members, setting priorities to ensure task completion, SLA adherence, and seamless coordination across workstreams.
  • Drive Goals & Productivity: Set and ensure the achievement of operational goals owning the productivity, quality, and effectiveness of your team with minimal manager oversight.
  • Manage Employee Lifecycle: Support the full employee lifecycle independently, including hiring, onboarding, and performance evaluation.  Effectively coach and mentor team members to support their career development and provide continuous feedback.
  • Solve Operational Challenges: Utilize established process and data-driven insights to guide problem-solving and streamline annotation workflows.  Drive efficiency through automation, removing bottlenecks and cultivate a growth mindset within the team.

What we're looking for :

  • Degree in any related technical field 
  • At least 6 years of Domain Expertise: Experience in data operations, data labeling, computer vision dataset creation, or machine learning annotation workflows.
  • 2 years of Leadership Experience: Proven experience supervising team members, setting operational priorities, and guiding daily team output in a fast-paced technology or autonomous driving domain.
  • People Management Capabilities: Demonstrated proficiency in managing the full employee lifecycle, conducting performance reviews, and coaching staff with minimal guidance.

Bonus points:

  • Prior experience working with autonomous driving data, sensor data (LiDAR, Radar, Camera), or 3D bounding box annotation tools.
  • Vendor management experience, including defining performance metrics, building relationships with third-party suppliers, and holding them accountable to SLAs and contract standards.
  • Experience working with diverse cultures and managing projects across multiple time zones.

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Motional is a driverless technology company making autonomous vehicles a safe, reliable, and accessible reality. We’re driven by something more.

Our journey is always people first.

We aren't just developing driverless cars; we're creating safer roadways, more equitable transportation options, and making our communities better places to live, work, and connect. Our team is made up of engineers, researchers, innovators, dreamers and doers, who are creating a technology with the potential to transform the way we move.

Higher purpose, greater impact.

We’re creating first-of-its-kind technology that will transform transportation. To do so successfully, we must design for everyone in our cities and on our roads. We believe in building a great place to work through a progressive, global culture that is diverse, inclusive, and ensures people feel valued at every level of the organization. Diversity helps us to see the world differently; it’s not only good for our business, it’s the right thing to do.  

Scale up, not starting up.

Our team is behind some of the industry's largest leaps forward, including the first fully-autonomous cross-country drive in the U.S, the launch of the world's first robotaxi pilot, and operation of the world's longest-standing public robotaxi fleet. We’re driven to scale; we’re moving towards commercialization of our technology, and we need team members who are ready to embrace change and challenges.

Formed as a joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, Motional is fundamentally changing how people move through their lives. Headquartered in Boston, Motional has operations in the U.S and Asia. For more information, visit  www.Motional.com and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube.

Motional AD Inc. is an EOE. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To comply with Federal Law, we participate in E-Verify. All newly-hired employees are queried through this electronic system established by the DHS and the SSA to verify their identity and employment eligibility.

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