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Odyssey

Head of Data Operations

Odyssey

Senior data operations leader at Odyssey, pioneering AI world models. Responsible for data acquisition strategy, partnerships, and building a scalable organization.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define data acquisition strategy across multimodal sources - video, audio, egocentric capture, simulation, robotic sensor data.
  • Close and manage data partnerships including evaluation, negotiation and relationship management.
  • Own data mix and composition, working closely with research and product teams.
  • Identify data gaps preemptively and design systems for analysis and feedback.
  • Build and scale the data organization to fit company needs from a team to potentially hundreds of people.
  • Own and manage a data operations budget in the tens of millions.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Deep hands-on experience with multimodal data - audio, video, egocentric data capture, robotic sensor data.
  • Experience closing data deals - commercial negotiation experience with vendors, suppliers, or partners.
  • Have a track record of leading data operations or a closely adjacent function at a frontier AI lab, a robotics company, or another technically demanding environment.
  • Proven ability to design systems that help identify gaps in data acquisition before they impact model performance.
  • Experience writing or contributing to research papers, with a deep understanding of world models and reinforcement learning.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools
data acquisition strategymultimodal dataaudio datavideo dataegocentric data capturerobotic sensor datadata operationssystem designmodel performancereinforcement learning
Soft Skills
relationship managementnegotiationleadershipevaluationcommunication