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# General Manager at Encord

- **Company:** Encord
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-10
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/encord/682b4047-2744-4a69-b756-413ed1192da5/application

> Lead the establishment and scaling of Encord's India delivery hub in Bengaluru. This executive role involves building the organizational structure, setting operational standards, and fostering a high-performance culture to support global AI data operations.

## Job description

## About us

Encord is the universal data layer for AI that helps 300+ AI teams train and run models on the right data. Our platform indexes, curates, annotates, and evaluates data across the full AI lifecycle, from development through production.

Trusted by Woven by Toyota, AXA, UiPath, Zipline, and more. We're an ambitious team of 100+ working at the frontier of AI and have raised $60M in Series C funding from Wellington Management, CRV, Next47 and Y Combinator.

## The role

As a General Manager, you’ll join as a first leadership hire in the region to scale our India delivery hub: building a high-calibre team, setting the cultural standard, and creating an industry-leading project delivery capability.

You'll work closely with our business leadership, GTM, Product and Tech teams globally, with the long-term goal of scaling the India org to several hundred people. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on variety and ambiguity, understands what it takes to build a world-class operation in a new hub and cares deeply about the talent bar and the company’s image.

## What you'll do

- Build the organisation. You'll shape how the team is structured, and set the standard for everything that follows — with the goal of growing to several hundred people over time.
- Turn strategy into execution. Work shoulder-to-shoulder with leadership to break down company priorities into concrete plans, clear ownership, and the operational discipline needed to actually deliver them across the India function.
- Create the operating backbone. Establish the rhythms and routines — planning cycles, performance cadences, leadership check-ins — that keep a fast-scaling team focused, aligned, and moving without losing momentum.
- Fix what's slowing us down. Proactively identify where the organisation is getting stuck — whether that's process gaps, capacity constraints, or structural friction — and build solutions that scale as we grow.
- Maintain an exceptionally high bar for talent. Every hire matters. You'll set the hiring standard, make the tough calls, and ensure the people joining the India team are genuinely exceptional.
- Make Encord a destination in India. Build a brand that the best people in the market actually want to join. The product you're selling is the opportunity itself; make it real.
- Build a culture worth staying for. Create an environment where people do the best work of their careers — one that reflects Encord's values and holds up as the team scales, not just when it's small.

Who we're looking for

- You operate like an owner. You don't wait for direction — you identify what needs to happen, build the plan, and execute it. Ambiguity doesn't slow you down; it's where you do your best work.
- You move people without authority. You get things done across teams and geographies through trust, clear framing, and good judgement — not by leaning on your title or escalating up the chain.
- You hold the line on quality. Whether it's a hire, a process, or a client deliverable, you have high standards and the conviction to enforce them even when it's inconvenient.
- You build for the long term. You're not here to hit a short-term target and move on — you want to build something that lasts, and you understand that culture and talent bar are the foundations everything else rests on.

## Experience requirements

- 10–15 years of general management or site leadership experience, ideally with a strong consulting foundation — ex-MBB at Project Leader, Engagement Manager, or Principal level is the benchmark
- Proven experience building teams in a high-growth or operationally complex environment
- Deep understanding of the local talent market and the ability to build a brand that competes
- A global mindset — you understand the business standards and can bring that rigour and culture to your team
- Exceptional people instincts: you know how to recruit for excellence and how to protect culture as a team scales
- Comfortable with ambiguity — we don't have all the answers yet, and you'll help shape them

## Why Encord

- Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a high-growth, Series C start-up
- Clear, accelerated growth opportunities as the company scales rapidly — this role grows with the business
- Flexible PTO and generous paid vacation days
- Annual learning & development budget to invest in your growth
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Regular travel opportunities to our London HQ and global team events
- Bi-annual company offsites, twice-weekly team lunches, and monthly socials

## About Encord

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Encord provides the data infrastructure layer for physical AI, helping teams curate, annotate, evaluate, and manage multimodal training data for systems like autonomous vehicles, robotics, and smart infrastructure.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Venture-backed, $110M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (with offices in New York, NY and London, UK)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Ulrik Stig Hansen (CEO/Co-Founder), Eric Landau (Co-Founder & President)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI infrastructure / Data annotation & curation for Physical AI (autonomous vehicles, robotics, world models, industrial automation)
- **Target customers**: Enterprise AI teams building multimodal, sensor-heavy AI systems (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission/purpose**: "Train and run AI on the right data" – solving the data quality bottleneck that prevents AI products from reaching production.

## Products & Services
- **Encord Platform**: End-to-end data management platform covering curation, annotation (native video, LiDAR, audio, text, sensor fusion), RLHF alignment, and model evaluation. API/SDK-first, zero data migration, runs on the customer’s cloud.
- **Data-as-a-Service (DaaS)**: Professional services for data collection and annotation, including in-field operators and teleoperation facilities matched to physical AI tasks.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $110.1M (as of 2026); annual revenue estimated at $5.5M (LinkedIn proxy, "Not publicly available" for official numbers)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: CRV, Y Combinator (W21 batch), and individual investors like Luc Vincent (former VP of AI at Meta). Customers include Toyota, Skydio, Maxar, and UiPath (UiPath achieved near 99% model accuracy and 10x dataset growth using Encord).
- **Growth Signals**: 139 employees (+74.3% YoY, +78 people); 300+ teams using the platform; operates in 7 countries; recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the data annotation space; strong customer retention (e.g., UiPath 4x reduction in error rate).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Built for Physical AI**: Multimodal by design from the ground up – handles synchronized LiDAR, camera, radar, depth, force/torque, audio, and text in a single workflow.
- **Enterprise‑grade trust**: Zero data migration (data stays in customer cloud), API/SDK-first integration, label lineage and quality controls for production scale.
- **Proven at scale**: Used by leading autonomous vehicle, robotics, and enterprise AI teams; validated by public case studies (UiPath, Toyota, Skydio).

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen capabilities for world models, VLA (Vision-Language-Action) models, and robotic perception.
- Expand Data-as-a-Service offerings for physical AI data collection and annotation.
- Continue scaling the customer base across industrial, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, and smart infrastructure verticals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Strong in-person culture” with hybrid/office‑first approach (San Francisco, New York, London). 45+ nationalities represented. Core values: “Builds with care + urgency” and “High agency”.
- **Compensation & Benefits**: Equity in a hyper‑growth startup; 25 days paid time off; private health insurance (UK/US); team lunch twice a week; monthly team events and bi‑annual offsites; cycle to work scheme; home & tech scheme; annual learning & development stipend; payroll giving scheme.
- **Visa Policy**: Case-by-case visa sponsorship, confirmed early in the recruiter screen.
- **Interview Process**: Typically 4–5 stages: recruiter screen, hiring manager conversation, skills‑based interview or take-home, and final panel. Recruiter walks candidates through specifics upfront.
- **Early‑career programs**: Commercial Associate program (GTM launchpad) and early‑career engineering/ML roles – no formal internship program but hires ambitious early‑career candidates.

## Sources
1. [encord.com – Careers page](https://encord.com/careers)
2. [encord.com – Homepage](https://encord.com/)
3. [encord.com – About page](https://encord.com/about-us/)
4. [linkedin.com – Encord company page](https://es.linkedin.com/company/encord-team)
5. [ycombinator.com – Encord jobs](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/encord/jobs)

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