Talent Acquisition Lead, Hiring & Performance

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.

We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies. Our datasets power models that learn from the physical world — enabling robots to understand, reason, and act in real environments.

We operate across multiple geographies and are scaling quickly — building a global team spanning operations, engineering, and research.

Robotics will become the largest industry in human history — larger than anything that has come before it. As intelligent machines move into the physical world, they will dramatically expand global GDP, raise the material standard of living for everyone, and ultimately help make humanity a multiplanetary civilization. None of that happens without one thing: enormous amounts of high-quality, real-world data.

Mecka AI builds that foundation. We are the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI — the substrate that teaches machines to perceive, reason, and act in reality. Get this right, and we accelerate the most important technological transition of our time.

• Excellence as the baseline. We hold an extremely high bar and expect the best work of your career. Mediocrity isn't interesting to us.

• Highly technical. We reason from first principles, not by analogy. The best argument wins — regardless of title or tenure.

• Truth-seeking. We are relentlessly honest with ourselves and each other. We chase reality — measured, not assumed — and kill our own bad ideas fast.

• Maniacal urgency. The work matters and the clock is real. We move fast, ship, measure, and iterate.

• Extreme ownership. You own outcomes end-to-end — no hand-offs, no excuses, no waiting for permission.

• Hardcore. This is a high-intensity environment for people who want to do the defining work of their lives.

We’re hiring a Talent Acquisition Lead, Hiring & Performance to own how we hire, evaluate, and drive performance across our global teams.

This role is responsible for scaling international hiring pipelines, managing team performance across regions, and building clear incentive structures tied to output and quality.

You will work across multiple hubs to ensure we are hiring the right people, setting clear expectations, and consistently driving high performance.

You report to Mecka’s Head of People and own the operator side of the talent system — high-volume hiring, performance, and incentives for our field, technician, labeling, and country-ops teams across geographies.

• Own hiring for operator-level roles across international hubs — field, technician, labeling, and country-ops teams. (Executive and senior technical search is owned by the Head of People.)

• Build and scale recruiting pipelines across regions (NA, LATAM, SEA, etc.)

• Partner with local leads to ensure consistent hiring quality and standards

• Design and improve interview processes, assessments, and selection criteria

• Manage recruiting partners, agencies, and internal hiring workflows

• Own performance management systems across global teams

• Define clear KPIs, output metrics, and quality benchmarks by role

• Implement processes for tracking, reviewing, and improving performance

• Work with managers to identify top performers and address underperformance

• Drive consistent performance standards across all regions and teams

• Design and manage incentive structures tied to output, quality, and reliability

• Align compensation with performance and operational goals

• Build frameworks for bonuses, variable pay, and performance-based rewards

• Continuously optimize incentives to drive throughput and quality improvements

• Work closely with regional leads to ensure teams are staffed, trained, and performing

• Monitor performance across hubs and identify gaps or inefficiencies

• Support scaling of new geographies and operational expansion

• Ensure consistency in how teams are managed and evaluated globally

• Build and maintain dashboards for hiring, performance, and retention metrics

• Track key metrics such as throughput, quality, retention, and SLA adherence

• Provide regular reporting to leadership on team performance and hiring progress

• Improve systems and tooling for tracking and managing global workforce performance

• 5+ years of experience in HR, People Ops, Talent, or Operations roles

• Experience managing high-volume hiring or global recruiting pipelines

• Experience working with distributed or international teams

• Strong understanding of performance management and operational metrics

• Experience building or managing incentive or performance-based compensation systems

• Experience in operations-heavy environments (BPO, marketplaces, data labeling, logistics, etc.)

• Experience managing teams across multiple countries or regions

• Strong analytical mindset with experience using metrics to drive performance

• Experience working closely with operations and delivery teams

• Ability to operate in fast-scaling, high-throughput environments

• Highly execution-focused and operationally strong

• Comfortable managing global teams and distributed workforces

• Strong at driving accountability and performance at scale

• Data-driven and focused on measurable outcomes

• Able to move quickly and solve problems in fast-moving environments

• Direct ownership over global hiring and team performance

• High impact on output, quality, and operational efficiency

• Work closely with leadership and regional operators

• Help scale a global workforce across multiple regions

• Build systems that directly impact company performance