Team lead Russian-language projects

Описание:
In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Russian Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Russian AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Russian content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.

• Quality monitoring:
  Spot-check Russian items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and esc…?
• Trainer and QA communication:
  Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, and quality expectations.
• Question handling:
  Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around Russian wording, grammar, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, and edge cases.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.
• Documentation:
  Create and maintain Russian project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Onboarding and training:
  Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and Russian-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment:
  Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Russian language guidelines consistently and understand updates as projects evolve.
• Process improvement:
  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

Условия: hourly, remote contractor role