Catalan Team Lead

SME Careers; Gerona; Remote; EUR 34,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Catalan Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality across remote Catalan AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Catalan content, provide precise feedback, and ensure adherence to project rubrics.

The role emphasizes strong Catalan and English skills, attention to detail, and scalable QA processes. You will mentor trainers and QAs, update guidelines, and contribute to onboarding materials, style guides, and documentation.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native Catalan proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Excellent command of English to follow guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 1+ years of professional experience in Catalan-related language workflows.
• Strong understanding of Catalan grammar, spelling, punctuation, and tone.
• Experience supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, or QAs is preferred.
• Highly organized with ability to maintain style guides and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring across Catalan items, identifying issues and providing feedback.
• Update trainers and QAs on new guidelines and project changes via Discord or similar.
• Respond to questions on Catalan wording, accentuation, and localization variants.
• Activate inactive contributors and coordinate follow-ups to ensure productivity.
• Create and maintain Catalan project documentation, style guides, FAQs, and rubrics.
• Lead onboarding and training calls to explain expectations and workflows.
• Ensure consistent application of Catalan language guidelines across projects.
• Identify recurring quality gaps and propose scalable QA process improvements.

Skills

Catalan language proficiency

English language proficiency

Attention to detail

Remote collaboration

Quality assurance mindset

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Catalan, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Catalan Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Catalan AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Catalan 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 Catalan 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 Catalan quality leadership will directly help improve the world's premier AI models by ensuring that Catalan 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Catalan items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and elevate 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 Catalan wording, accentuation, weak pronouns, register, translation fidelity, Central/Valencian/Balearic variation, castellanismes, cultural context, 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 Catalan 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 Catalan-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Catalan 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 Catalan-language projects.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Catalan, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Catalan 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.
• 1+ years of professional experience in Catalan writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Catalan grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, accentuation (accent agut vs. greu, dièresi), the geminated l·l (punt volat), apostrophation, weak pronouns (pronoms febles), gender and number agreement, tone, register, and cultural context.
• Comfortable distinguishing Catalan variants where relevant — Central Catalan, Valencian, and Balearic — including vocabulary, spelling, terminology, and localization expectations, and able to apply the appropriate standard (IEC/AVL).
• Ability to evaluate Catalan content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, castellanismes (Spanish interference), missing or incorrect diacritics, incorrect pronoun usage, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology.
• Experience supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is strongly preferred.
• 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.