Russian Team Lead
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.
You will assess work for accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, meaning preservation, instruction-following, formatting, and adherence to project-specific rubrics. You will spot recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help activate contributors who are not working consistently. This role requires strong Russian and English skills, excellent attention to detail, structured communication, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote teams.
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.
Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.
Important: There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.
Requirements: - 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. - Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred. - 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. - Experience with AI training, data annotation, large language models, prompt/response evaluation, or rubric-based LLM QA is a strong plus.