
Job Description
We're hiring a Data Operations Intern to help us recruit, onboard, manage, and support contributors across active data collection projects. This is a hands-on role for someone who is organized, fast, and comfortable working across people, databases, tools, and messy operational details.
What You'll Do
- Recruit and onboard contributors across different languages, countries, and communities
- Help manage active data collection projects, including audio recording and transcription workflows
- Track contributor progress, quality, payments, and project completion targets
- Communicate with contributors daily to answer questions, resolve issues, and keep projects moving
- Find creative channels for sourcing contributors, including communities, referrals, job boards, and local groups
- Review operational data to identify bottlenecks, inactive contributors, quality issues, and languages that need more supply
- Help design and run incentive programs, referral campaigns, and deadline-based bonuses
- Build lightweight processes, trackers, and playbooks so successful workflows can be repeated
You Might Be a Fit If You
- Are highly organized and can keep track of many moving pieces at once
- Respond quickly and communicate clearly
- Are comfortable doing hands-on operational work, including repetitive tasks when needed
- Like working with people and can manage contributors professionally
- Care about quality and can spot when something is off
Bonus Points
- Experience recruiting, managing, or growing communities
- Experience with data labeling, transcription, audio, linguistics, research, or marketplace operations
- Ability to use AI coding tools to automate workflows
- Experience running ads, referral programs, campus outreach, or gig-worker recruiting
This is a practical operations role. You'll work directly on real client projects, help scale contributor supply, and learn how high-quality data collection systems are built from the ground up.
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Job Details
- Category
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Internship
- Location
- San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
- Posted
- Compensation
- $20 - $35 per hour
About Panels
Panels is an audio data platform that delivers high-quality speech datasets from vetted, diverse contributors to power training and evaluation of foundational voice models.
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