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Meet Instawork

Instawork connects businesses in the United States and Canada with vetted hourly workers for individual shifts, longer assignments, and permanent jobs. Restaurants, hotels, warehouses, retailers, and event venues use the platform to cover absences, staff busy periods, and hire workers whose skills and shift performance they can review. Workers use the app to see pay rates, book local shifts, and find permanent roles. Businesses can also use Jess, Instawork’s staffing assistant, to find available workers and manage bookings. Through Instawork Robotics Lab, the company equips workers with wearable cameras to record physical tasks and provides the resulting training data to robotics developers.View more

Instawork connects businesses in the United States and Canada with vetted hourly workers for individual shifts, longer assignments, and permanent jobs. Restaurants, hotels, warehouses, retailers, and event venues use the platform to cover absences, staff busy periods, and hire workers whose skills and shift performance they can review. Workers use the app to see pay rates, book local shifts, and find permanent roles. Businesses can also use Jess, Instawork’s staffing assistant, to find available workers and manage bookings. Through Instawork Robotics Lab, the company equips workers with wearable cameras to record physical tasks and provides the resulting training data to robotics developers.

Founded
2015
Company size
501–1,000 employees
Company stage
Not known
Headquarters
San Francisco, USA

Why work here

Instawork’s teams solve problems that workers and businesses face every day, from finding a shift that fits someone’s skills and availability to filling a last-minute vacancy. Engineers work with product managers and designers and can own features from design through deployment and monitoring. The Bengaluru hub also offers work on video and data systems used to train robots on physical tasks. Its engineering postings list health insurance and parental leave and specify five days a week in the office.Read more

Instawork’s teams solve problems that workers and businesses face every day, from finding a shift that fits someone’s skills and availability to filling a last-minute vacancy. Engineers work with product managers and designers and can own features from design through deployment and monitoring. The Bengaluru hub also offers work on video and data systems used to train robots on physical tasks. Its engineering postings list health insurance and parental leave and specify five days a week in the office.

Industry
HR technology and hourly staffing
Open jobs
55 open jobs

Tech stack

Python

Programming language

Django

Backend framework

Celery

Distributed task queue

MySQL

Relational database

Redis

In-memory data store

Elasticsearch

Search engine

React

Frontend library

React Native

Mobile framework

Key people

5 people
Sumir MeghaniCo-founder and Chief Executive OfficerView bio

Meghani co-founded Instawork with Saureen Shah to help small businesses find hourly workers. He previously led email and relevance at Groupon as a vice president. He studied economics at Stanford University and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Saureen ShahCo-founderView bio

Shah co-founded Instawork and led its early engineering work as chief technology officer. A Carnegie Mellon University alumnus, he was an early engineer at YouTube and also worked at Google.

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Dan SummersChief Revenue OfficerView bio

Summers leads Instawork’s revenue team. Before joining, he led spend and expense management and enterprise supplier growth at BILL. He previously helped build Sprout Social’s commercial operations and worked in Groupon’s revenue organization.

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Aaron BrombergHead of Robotics and Physical AIView bio

Bromberg leads Instawork’s work with robotics developers, including the Instacore wearable system for collecting training data in workplaces. He previously worked on Astro, Amazon’s home robot.

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Vaibhav PandeyIndia Country Head and Senior Director of ProductView bio

Pandey leads Instawork’s India team, where the Bengaluru product and engineering hub has expanded into field operations for robotics data collection. He has worked on business and consumer marketplaces in India and the United States and studied at the Indian School of Business.

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Latest company news

4 stories

The New York Times profiles Instawork workers collecting robot training data

The New York Times

A video report followed Dallas barbers and a nail artist who wear cameras while working. They described why they take part in Instawork’s data collection program and what training robots could mean for their trades.

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Dan Summers joins Instawork as chief revenue officer

Sumir Meghani on LinkedIn

Instawork appointed Summers to lead its revenue team. He joined from BILL after earlier commercial roles at Sprout Social and Groupon.

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Instawork expands its India operations into robotics data collection

Express Computer

India country head Vaibhav Pandey described how the Bengaluru team expanded beyond engineering and product design to work with local businesses and workers on recording physical tasks for robotics developers.

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Instawork Robotics Lab introduces the Instacore wearable

Instawork via Newswire

Instacore uses five synchronized cameras worn on the head, chest, and wrists to capture hand movements and surroundings during a shift. Robotics developers can use the recordings to train models on tasks performed in kitchens, warehouses, and factories.

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Jobs at Instawork

55 open roles
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