Hybrid Director – Surgical Data Annotation & Programs

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About the role

  • Engineering Director at CODVO.AI leading surgical data annotation and programs with high throughput and quality standards. Managing complex video annotation projects and client relations in a hybrid setup.

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic and operational leadership for a portfolio of high throughput, clinically defensible, audit ready surgical video annotation programs.
  • Own scale, standardization, automation leverage, quality systems, and client trust across multiple programs—ensuring predictable delivery, regulatory readiness, and measurable ROI on human in the loop operations.
  • Own end to end delivery for multiple concurrent surgical video annotation programs across clients, procedures, and modalities.
  • Set and enforce standard operating models from intake → de identification → annotation → QA/IRR → adjudication → dataset release + evidence packs.
  • Ensure programs meet or exceed SLAs, quality thresholds, and release timelines at scale.
  • Define and institutionalize annotation operating standards: Program playbooks, SOPs, Quality gates, Evidence pack structure, Dataset versioning discipline.
  • Ensure every program is reproducible, auditable, and clinically defensible.
  • Partner with senior clinical SMEs to define and approve procedure level ontologies (phases, steps, anatomy, tools, events).
  • Ensure consistent translation into labeling guidelines, UI constraints, and QA checks.
  • Own governance mechanisms to resolve clinical ambiguity, manage guideline evolution, and prevent ontology drift across programs.
  • Set the automation vision and roadmap for surgical video labeling: Pre-labeling + verification as default, Confidence/uncertainty based task routing, Active learning feedback loops.
  • Drive continuous reduction in cost per labeled minute and human effort per release.
  • Partner with ML, platform, and data engineering leaders to productionize automation gains.
  • Design and govern enterprise grade quality systems: Multi-rater strategies by label class, IRR standards, Calibration and retraining frameworks, Acceptance thresholds by use case (R&D vs regulated).
  • Ensure every dataset ships with a complete Evidence Pack: Provenance, QA & IRR reports, Adjudication logs, Clinical and delivery sign offs.
  • Own disagreement governance across programs: Escalation paths to senior adjudicators and clinicians, Systematic tracking of ambiguity categories, Closure of recurring issues via guideline and tooling updates.
  • Proactively identify delivery, quality, compliance, and reputational risks.
  • Ensure all annotation programs comply with de-identification standards, Data access controls, Logging, retention, and audit requirements.
  • Serve as executive owner for security reviews, audits, and vendor risk assessments (SOC2 / ISO aligned environments).
  • Act as senior escalation and trusted advisor for clients.
  • Lead executive level program reviews, roadmap discussions, and expansion opportunities.
  • Ensure PoCs convert into long-term, scaled production partnerships.
  • Build and lead a multi-layered delivery organization: Program Leads, Senior annotators & adjudicators, QA auditors, Training & calibration leads.
  • Define career pathways, certification standards, and succession plans.
  • Manage enterprise level infrastructure: SOP libraries, Training academies, Calibration playbooks, Release governance checklists.

Requirements

  • 12–15+ years of hands-on experience in data operations, annotation programs, QA-led delivery, or clinical data management
  • 5+ years leading managers or owning multi-program portfolios
  • Deep, hands-on expertise with video annotation programs, including temporal segmentation, event labeling, and annotation tool workflows at scale
  • Proven track record designing and running enterprise-grade quality systems with IRR accountability
  • Strong executive program management skills: capacity planning, financial control, risk management, and stakeholder leadership
  • Demonstrated ability to operationalize clinical guidelines into enforceable, tool-based workflows
  • Experience working in regulated or high-trust environments (healthcare, life sciences, sensitive data handling)

Benefits

  • 3 days per week on-site
  • Professional development opportunities

Job title

Director – Surgical Data Annotation & Programs

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

HybridPuneIndia

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