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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.

11 eligible countriesUp to $30 per hour
Hiring companySME Careers by SuperAnnotate
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About the role

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.

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.

Why Work with SME Careers?

  • Be a part of a forward-thinking team and help us train AI to communicate more effectively.
  • Shape the Future of AI

    Your work directly contributes to how AI systems learn and communicate.

  • Your Schedule, Your Rules

    Set your own hours and work around your life.

  • Weekly Pay

    Receive fast, reliable payments once work is approved.

  • Community Rewards

    Get rewarded for referrals with ongoing bonus income.

Responsibilities

  • Quality monitoring: Spot-check Russian items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
  • 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.

Experience and education

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Russian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
  • 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.

Language requirements

  • 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.
  • Interview language: English.

Assessment requirements

Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.

Eligibility

Work arrangement: Fully remote

Applicant eligibility: 11 eligible countries

View all 11 eligible countries

Eligible countries: Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan

Compensation details

Up to $30 per hour.

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