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.
Role Overview
We are building one of India's largest commercial video data collection networks. As a Zonal Data Captain, you will own the business pipeline for your assigned zone. Your primary responsibility is to find businesses, convert them for on-site video data collection, and keep the recording engine in your territory active every single day. You will spend your days in the field meeting business owners, converting them, and expanding into new towns mapped to your zone.
Core Compensation & Target
Fixed Salary: ₹25,000 / month
Performance Incentives: Up to ₹95,000 / week*
Core Target: 8 business conversions / day
*Incentive Note: Incentives are performance-based and linked to verified conversions, recorded hours generated from your converted businesses, and quality/consistency of execution. All conversions and hours are subject to verification before payout. A detailed slab structure will be shared at the offer stage.
What You'll Do
1. Business Pipeline Building (Your Core Job)
Daily Target: Convert a minimum of 8 new businesses every day for commercial video data collection.
Target Segments: Prioritize multi-worker and 2-shift environments: factories, manufacturing units, workshops, service centers, commercial kitchens, warehouses, printing & packaging units, and facility management operations.
Data Integrity: Complete the business conversion form accurately and fully for every single conversion on the same day.
Verification: Every conversion is verified. A converted business means a real, reachable business that is scheduled and ready for recording.
⚠️ CRITICAL PERFORMANCE STANDARD: Any week with fewer than 50 converted businesses (~8/day) is a failure to execute the core requirement of this role and will result in termination.