German Team Lead

SME Careers; United States; Remote; USD 55,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a German Quality Assurance Lead for an hourly, remote contractor role. You will oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across German AI training projects, reviewing AI-generated German content and evaluating outputs against project guidelines.

You will provide precise written feedback, maintain German language documentation, and help onboard and activate remote contributors.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native German with strong writing skills.
• Excellent English for feedback and guidelines.
• 3+ years in German language QA, translation, or AI training.

Responsibilities

• Oversee quality across German AI training projects.
• Provide precise written feedback to trainers and QAs.
• Coordinate remote teams via Discord and collaboration tools.
• Develop and maintain German style guides and rubrics.

Skills

German proficiency

QA leadership

Remote teamwork

Feedback writing

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in German-related field

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Trackers

Dashboards

PM tools

Job description

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

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check German 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 German wording, grammar, tone, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, and Germany/Austria/Switzerland usage differences.
• 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 German 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 German-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply German 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 German-language projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in German, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native German 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 German writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of German grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, capitalization, compounds, cases, tone, register, business writing norms, and cultural context.
• Comfortable handling Germany, Austria, and Switzerland German usage differences where relevant, including vocabulary, spelling, tone, and localization expectations.
• Ability to evaluate German content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, incorrect case usage, awkward compounds, 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.