Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works.
About IRL
Researchers at UC Berkeley have identified a “100,000-year data gap” - the gulf between what trained AI language models and what physical robots actually have to learn from. Closing that gap is the defining infrastructure challenge of the physical AI era. IRL is Instawork’s answer to it. We deploy skilled workers into real commercial and residential environments - kitchens, warehouses, hotel floors, homes - to capture the high-fidelity task data that the world’s leading Robotics labs use to train their foundation models. Read more here.
Location: Bengaluru, India
The Mission
Instawork is building the data engine for the future of physical AI. We are looking for a Global Robotics Partnership Associate to bridge the gap between world-class robotics companies, the massive scale of our labor marketplace, and the 1000s of Partners who use Instawork for skilled labor every day.
The Hustle
This is a high-octane, 60+ hour-per-week role for someone who lives to close deals. You will work directly with our CEO and Head of Robotics to hunt and secure partnerships with companies that control diverse labor forces. Your goal: integrate Instawork’s operations and tech to turn their manual labor into the high-quality training datasets needed to fuel the next generation of robotics.
Role
- Execute the Playbook: Identify and sign global partners who need Instawork’s tech to capture and structure robotic training data. Build outbound pipeline via cold calls, email, and LinkedIn. This is a full-cycle partner acquisition role, from first outreach, to collecting quality data.
- Own the Road: Expect extensive global travel to partner sites.
Who you Are: You have a "founder" mindset and Bias for Action. You don't wait for permission; you deliver results. You thrive in a high-pressure environment where the pace is fast and the expectations are higher. You are comfortable with ambiguity and fast iteration. 2+ years in Partnerships, Business Development, SDR, or inside sales, with experience owning deals beyond initial qualification.
Our Values
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Empathy, Trust & Candor
We put ourselves in the shoes of our colleagues and customers and don’t shy away from uncomfortable conversations, instead building trust through honest and direct feedback. -
Bias for Action
We practice high-velocity decision-making, clear-eyed that we often operate with incomplete information. Growing quickly means it’s OK to be wrong, so long as we learn from our mistakes and course correct! -
Always Be Learning
We’re a curious bunch, and with AI transforming our workplace we encourage everyone to learn from each other, compounding our knowledge and experience to help us change an entire industry. -
Act Like an Owner
We work long, hard, and smart, building products that delight our users and drive growth. Your ability to impact Instawork is limited only by your courage and conviction, not your job description.
About Instawork
Founded in 2015, Instawork is the nation’s leading online labor marketplace for food services, hospitality, light industry, and logistics, connecting more than 7M skilled workers with local restaurants, hotels, warehouses, stadiums, and more. Our AI-powered platform serves thousands of businesses across more than 50 major markets in the United States and Canada. We're not just helping fill shifts, we're supporting local economies—and we're just getting started!
Instawork has been featured by CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the Associated Press. Forbes included us on their Next Billion Dollar Startups list; RetailTech Breakthrough named us Workforce Hiring Solution of the Year for 2025; and Inc. 5000 recognized us as one of the country's top 10% fastest-growing companies two years in a row. But what matters most is our impact. We're solving real problems for real people, and we’re doing it at scale.
Join our team to help us build something that matters! We’re looking for superstars who want to help us shape the future of work. With hubs in San Francisco, Bangalore, and Chicago, city offices in New York, Phoenix, and Singapore, we're back to working together in-person five days a week because we believe the best ideas happen when great people collaborate face-to-face. We also value diverse perspectives and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
Ready to make an impact? Learn more at www.instawork.com/about.