Odia (Oriya) Team Lead

SME Careers; Khordha; Remote; INR 689,000 - 1,240,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers, a fast-growing AI data services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, seeks an Odia Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly, remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across Odia AI training projects, review AI-generated Odia content, and provide precise written feedback to trainers and QAs.

You will assess accuracy, grammar, tone, and cultural context, spot issues, and help onboard and activate contributors. Strong Odia and English skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Odia or related field.
• 3+ years of Odia writing/QA experience or related language-review workflows.
• Native or near-native Odia with strong English skills.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: spot-check Odia items and provide ongoing feedback.
• Trainer and QA communication: update on guidelines and project changes.
• Question handling: respond clearly about Odia wording and cultural context.
• Activation management: DM inactive contributors and track availability.
• Documentation: create and maintain Odia project documentation.
• Onboarding and training: run onboarding calls to explain expectations and rubrics.
• Quality alignment: ensure consistent Odia guidelines across projects.
• Process improvement: identify gaps and help build scalable QA processes.

Skills

Odia proficiency

English proficiency

Attention to detail

Remote team coordination

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Odia/linguistics

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Project trackers

Job description

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Odia (Oriya) Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Odia AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Odia content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and help ensure that all contributors follow the expected 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 Odia 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 Odia quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Odia 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 Odia 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 Odia wording, register, translation fidelity, 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 Odia 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 Odia-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Odia 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 Odia-language projects.

Your Profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Odia, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Odia 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 Odia writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Odia grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, and cultural context.
• Ability to evaluate Odia 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.