Norwegian Team Lead

SME Careers; Norway; Remote; NOK 964,000 - 1,378,000; Part time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Norwegian Quality Assurance Lead to oversee quality and trainer performance across Norwegian AI training projects. The role focuses on reviewing AI-generated Norwegian content, evaluating output against guidelines, and delivering precise feedback while coordinating remote teams.

You will ensure accuracy, fluency, tone, and cultural appropriateness, support onboarding, maintain documentation, and help activate inactive contributors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Norwegian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant field.
• Native or near-native Norwegian with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong English to follow guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Norwegian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong Norwegian grammar, spelling, tone, and cultural context knowledge.
• Comfortable with Bokmål and/or Nynorsk; specify which standards you support.
• Ability to evaluate content against rubrics and identify issues like mistranslation or unnatural tone.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, or QAs is preferred.
• Familiarity with Discord, Google Sheets/Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
• Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM QA is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: spot-check Norwegian items and escalate recurring issues.
• Trainer and QA communication: update teams on guidelines and changes via Discord.
• Question handling: respond to questions about Norwegian wording, tone, translation fidelity, and cultural context.
• Activation management: DM inactive contributors and track follow-ups.
• Documentation: create and maintain Norwegian project docs, style guides, FAQs, and onboarding materials.
• Onboarding and training: run sessions explaining expectations and workflows.
• Quality alignment: ensure adherence to Norwegian language guidelines across projects.
• Process improvement: identify gaps and propose scalable QA processes.

Skills

Quality assurance

Remote team leadership

Norwegian language expertise

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in Norwegian/linguistics

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Trackers

Project management systems

Job description

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

Key Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Norwegian 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 Norwegian wording, tone, register, translation fidelity, Bokmål vs Nynorsk usage, 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 Norwegian 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 Norwegian-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Norwegian 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 Norwegian-language projects.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Norwegian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near‑native Norwegian 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 Norwegian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language‑review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Norwegian grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, business writing norms, and cultural context.
• Comfortable handling Bokmål and/or Nynorsk, including spelling standards, terminology differences, and audience expectations. Candidates should specify which written standard(s) they can support.
• Ability to evaluate Norwegian content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, incorrect standard usage, 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.