Remote Strategic Lead, Speech & Audio AI Projects

Bazeta; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Appen in the United States is seeking a Strategic Project Lead – Speech & Audio AI to own end-to-end data programs that advance frontier AI. You will manage projects from planning through delivery, coordinating with clients and internal teams to shape workflows, guidelines, and quality standards for speech, audio, and language data.

The role requires strong delivery discipline, domain expertise in speech AI, and the ability to mentor Operations Specialists.

Qualifications

• 1–2+ years of experience in AI data operations or delivery.
• Experience with at least one speech/audio/language workflow.
• Ability to coordinate projects, manage stakeholders, and communicate with clients.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery across project scope, timelines, budgets, staffing and risks.
• Manage client communication, status updates, workshops, and escalations.
• Translate client requirements into annotation guidelines, workflows, tooling, and quality standards.
• Define and monitor quality metrics, including transcription accuracy, WER, diarization, and linguistic consistency.
• Troubleshoot quality issues and resolve ambiguous requirements with clients.
• Provide domain expertise across speech and audio workflows, advising on feasibility and evaluation methods.
• Build reusable guidelines, SOPs, and QA frameworks while mentoring Operations Specialists.
• Support new project scoping, pilots, and capability development as speech and voice AI evolves.

Skills

AI data operations

Project coordination

Client communication

Quality assurance

Problem solving

Tools

ASR transcription

Speaker diarization

Job description

Appen in the United States is seeking a Strategic Project Lead – Speech & Audio AI to own end-to-end data programs that advance frontier AI. You will manage projects from planning through delivery, coordinating with clients and internal teams to shape workflows, guidelines, and quality standards for speech, audio, and language data.

The role requires strong delivery discipline, domain expertise in speech AI, and the ability to mentor Operations Specialists.