Bengali Team Lead

SME Careers; India; Remote; INR 827,000 - 1,653,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Bengali QA Lead to oversee quality across Bengali AI training projects. The role emphasizes accuracy, tone, and cultural appropriateness, with feedback to trainers and QAs on Discord.

You will document guidelines, support onboarding, and help activate remote contributors while maintaining high standards. Strong Bengali and English skills, attention to detail, and experience leading remote teams are essential to drive quality workflows in a fast-moving AI data services

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Bengali, Linguistics, Translation, or related field.
• Native or near-native Bengali with strong reading/writing skills.
• Excellent English to follow guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years in Bengali writing, editing, translation, or QA workflows.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: spot-check Bengali items and provide feedback.
• Update trainers and QAs on guidelines, changes, and quality expectations.
• Respond clearly to Bengali wording and edge cases with context.
• Activate inactive contributors and track availability issues.
• Create and maintain Bengali project documentation and style guides.
• Coordinate onboarding and training calls with trainers and QAs.
• Ensure consistent use of Bengali guidelines across projects.
• Identify quality gaps and suggest scalable QA process improvements.

Skills

Bengali proficiency

Attention to detail

Structured communication

Remote team leadership

Quality assurance

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Bengali or related field

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Dashboards

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Bengali Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Bengali AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Bengali 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 Bengali 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 Bengali quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Bengali 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 Bengali items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalation 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 Bengali wording, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, Bangladesh vs West Bengal usage, 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 Bengali 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 Bengali-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Bengali 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 Bengali-language projects.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Bengali, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Bengali 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 Bengali writing, editing, translation, localisation, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Bengali grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, regional variation, and cultural context.
• Ability to evaluate Bengali content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, 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.