Russian team lead (manual) in AI training

This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your Russian quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Russian training data is natural, accurate, culturally appropriate, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.

• Spot-check Russian items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, and quality expectations.
• Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around Russian wording, grammar, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, and edge cases.
• DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.
• Create and maintain Russian project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and Russian-specific style requirements.
• Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Russian language guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
• Identify recurring quality gaps, propose workflow improvements, and help build scalable QA processes for Russian-language projects.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Russian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Russian proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Russian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Russian grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, declension, aspect, gender agreement, tone, register, and cultural context.
• Comfortable handling formal, neutral, and conversational Russian, including audience adaptation and terminology consistency across domains.
• Ability to evaluate Russian content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, incorrect case usage, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology.
• Comfortable working in fast-moving remote environments using tools such as Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
• Highly detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, honeypots, and other quality documentation.
• Будет плюсом: Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred; Experience with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt/response evaluation, or rubric-based LLM QA is a strong plus

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