Applied AI Program Lead: Multilingual ASR Data

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

LILT is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our Applied AI team to shepherd data programs that improve automatic speech recognition for low-resource languages. This four‑month fixed-term contract requires 4–6 hours per day, with potential for extension, and emphasizes end‑to‑end delivery, stakeholder alignment, and high‑ownership outcomes.

You will lead multilingual teams, ensure quality and on‑time delivery, and collaborate with engineering, language experts, and research to tackle

Qualifications

• Experience: 3+ years managing high-volume, deadline-driven service delivery in data annotation, transcription, localization, content operations, BPO or a comparable field.
• Team leadership: Demonstrated success leading distributed teams to meet demanding delivery and quality goals.
• Analytical skills: Strong ability to use data, dashboards, and forecasting to guide decisions on delivery, quality, and cost.
• Quality: Working knowledge of quality assurance for AI training data, including evaluation, sampling, and acceptance criteria.
• Communication: Excellent written English and the ability to write unambiguous instructions for multilingual contributors.
• Adaptability: Comfortable bringing structure to ambiguous requirements and leading programs in evolving environments.
• Availability: Able to commit for the full contract term.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program plans, from pilot and calibration through scaled production and final delivery.
• Monitor output against volume and timeline targets; forecast delivery and adjust capacity.
• Lead readiness reviews, quality checkpoints, and acceptance milestones with stakeholders.
• Manage delivery costs against budget and margin targets; flag scope changes and cost pressures.
• Assemble multilingual delivery teams and align capacity with program goals.
• Build reusable processes and playbooks to capture lessons and scale future launches.

Skills

Program management

Team leadership

Data analytics

Quality assurance

Communication

Adaptability

Availability

Tools

Jira

Job description

LILT is seeking a Technical Project Manager to join our Applied AI team to shepherd data programs that improve automatic speech recognition for low-resource languages. This four‑month fixed-term contract requires 4–6 hours per day, with potential for extension, and emphasizes end‑to‑end delivery, stakeholder alignment, and high‑ownership outcomes.

You will lead multilingual teams, ensure quality and on‑time delivery, and collaborate with engineering, language experts, and research to tackle