Operations Manager

Job Description

Title: Operations Manager

Company Name: Acme AI Ltd.

Vacancy: 1

Job Location: Dhaka (Mirpur)

Employment Status: Full-time

Educational Requirements:
∎ Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor in Engineering (BEngg)
∎ Demonstrated experience managing medium-to-large educated workforces
∎ Demonstrated experience in project management
∎ Deep passion for working in the global artificial intelligence space
∎ Excellent communicator with a good command of English both in comprehension and writing
∎ 2+ years of management experience; we will give preference to people who have worked in the image labelling space before.
∎ Skills Required: ERP Systems, MS Word/ Excel/ PowerPoint/ OneNote

Experience Requirements:
∎ At least 2 year(s)
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following area(s): Business Development, Computer skill, Data Analysis, Distribution/ Supply Chain Management
∎ The applicants should have experience in the following business area(s): Software Company

Job Context:
∎ To lead the Production and QA cell of Acme AI for managing projects, and personnel, and delivering professional quality image labelling outputs.
∎ Acme AI is an on-demand image annotation service provider operating from Bangladesh. We support development of artificial intelligence systems in the space of retail automation, autonomous vehicles, healthcare, geospatial imagery among many more with a focus on computer vision-based labelling operations. We serve clients positioned globally from commercial outfits to academia bodies. As image annotation and labelling company serving clients from different time zones, we stay live nearly for a 24-hour period.
∎ Production and QA serve as the nerve centre of Acme AI`s operations and thus is a critical business function. As part of the cell, we expect you to lead annotation projects, deliver quality annotation works, report to supervisory stakeholders, and offer business support as required. Likewise, as a start-up, we are continuously evolving our workflow to understand effective utilization of business processes where you will play a pivotal role.

Job Responsibilities:
∎ As an Operations Manager, you are responsible for spearheading operational functions and maintain 'quality' outputs as per project benchmark as required. General, KPI-based responsibilities during peak business season include:
∎ Project management
∎ Lead assigned projects as a focal point for all information and communication, inclusive of preparing project documentation
∎ Devise project timeline, inception reports, and completion reports for internal and external stakeholders along with managing man-hour forecast and resources to deliver each project 'perfectly'
∎ Ensure 'timely' outputs every day so that projects are on-track
∎ Report daily output, flag issues, and develop countermeasures to combat those risks
∎ Oversee and approve payment sheet content of contractual workers before sending it for supervisory approval
∎ Cell leader
∎ Work directly in a supervisory capacity to manage both annotators and QAs
∎ Develop benchmarks of both 'quality' and 'agility' for each individual projects
∎ Be the resident expert on the platform we use to work
∎ Ensure labelling works conform to preset quality standards and client expectations
∎ Develop clear policies, processes, metrics, and performance indicators to measure annotation performance and quality
∎ Commission new annotator requisition to human resources for incoming projects and develop project-specific organograms
∎ Deploy counselling sessions for workforces whenever discrepancies present itself
∎ Strategic interventions
∎ Lead incoming pilot projects by testing quality and speed of annotation in those projects
∎ Service as the responsible supervisor of each individual annotator and QAs
∎ Oversee recruitment operations and campaigns of both permanent and contractual workers
∎ Collaborate with MD and COO and other business support SBUs to build on new ideas
∎ Technical Competencies
∎ To achieve the above responsibilities, you are expected to have the below skills, along with a hunger to go beyond expectations in each of these spaces:
∎ Platform Expertise
∎ Positioned as a top annotator and QA in Acme AI with competitive skills that rivals that of the best annotators in different labelling types. Platform documentation and familiarity will have to be second nature for the incumbent particularly in our preferred platform(s) in order to exert better quality control for annotation projects and outputs.
∎ Managing People
∎ Provides full line management to a team where all members are working in a similar area of expertise or business. Scope includes planning, setting objectives, role modelling, an inclusive culture, recruitment, and development and performance management.
∎ Planning and Organising
∎ Develops and reviews the implementation of annual plans for a workgroup or function, considering business and customer requirements and reconciling competing demands.
∎ Using technology
∎ Commissions and successfully implements specialist technological or digital support to meet defined business or programme objectives.
∎ Communicating and influencing
∎ Able to use a range of nonstandard and creative approaches to inform, and persuade others, extending beyond logical argument to influence decisions and actions in a way which is inclusive and engaging.
∎ Analysing data and problems
∎ Seeks out and examines a range of information to identify patterns, trends and options, to solve multifaceted and complex problems.
∎ Managing projects
∎ Examines project data and performance, reporting on progress and recommending corrective action as needed.
∎ Behavioural Competencies
∎ Along with your functional responsibilities paired with technical competencies, which makes up 70% of your KPI, you are expected to behave in a professional manner starting from communication with your peers, inclusive of other full-time workers and independent contractors, to your conduct in the office environs. As an employee of Acme AI, you are expected to uphold the values and work ethic inherent to the company's culture and work as part of an efficient, yet humane, workforce. We consider ourselves as a second family and a second home for our employees and take violations on behavioural issues very seriously. We have zero tolerance for workplace harassments, bullying, and violations of work ethic, and will take immediate actions upon detection of such events.
∎ We assess behavioural competencies on 6 fronts:
∎ Connecting with others: Actively appreciating the needs and concerns of yourself and others
∎ Working together: Ensuring that others benefit as well as you
∎ Creating shared purpose: Creating energy and clarity so that people want to work purposefully together
∎ Making it happen: Challenging yourself and others to deliver and measure better results
∎ Being accountable: Delivering your best work in order to meet your commitments
∎ Shaping the future: Looking for ways in which we can do things better
∎ Experience and qualifications
∎ Undergraduate from a business or technology background. We will also highly appreciate tertiary 'certified' courses undertaken from Coursera and edX.
∎ Demonstrated experience managing medium-to-large educated workforces
∎ Demonstrated experience in project management
∎ Deep passion for working in the global artificial intelligence space
∎ Excellent communicator with a good command over English both in comprehension and writing
∎ 2+ years of management experience; we will give preference to people who have worked in the image labelling space before.

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age at least 25 years
∎ Both males and females are allowed to apply

Salary: Negotiable

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Mobile bill, Weekly 2 holidays
∎ Festival Bonus: 2

Job Source: Bdjobs.com Online Job Posting.

Application Deadline: 15 May 2022

Company Information:
∎ 16 Apr 2022
∎ Acme AI Ltd.
∎ Address : House 385 (5th Floor), Avenue 3, Road 6, Mirpur DOHS, Dhaka.
∎ Web : https://www.acmeai.tech/
∎ Business : THE FIRST DATA LABELING OUTFIT BASED IN BANGLADESH
The image labeling arm of ACME Technologies Ltd., Acme AI addresses and takes leverage of the highly-skilled, semi-skilled, and apprentice workforces in Bangladesh comprised entirely of educated youths. Our vision is two-pronged: to build expert data annotators and to link these expert annotators to AI fields such as retail, autonomous vehicles, medical AI, and geospatial data among many more.

Category: IT/Telecommunication

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Source: bdjobs.com

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