Russian Team Lead

SME Careers; United States; Remote; USD 34,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

SME Careers is seeking a Russian Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) for an hourly, remote contractor role. You will oversee quality across Russian AI training projects, review AI-generated content, provide precise feedback, and ensure adherence to project rubrics.

Strong Russian and English skills, plus detail orientation, are essential. You will monitor quality, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, support onboarding, and help activate contributors who are not consistently working.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native Russian proficiency with strong writing skills.
• Excellent English reading and writing to follow guidelines.
• 3+ years in Russian writing, editing, or QA roles.
• Experience leading remote teams of trainers or QAs is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring across Russian items and issue escalation.
• Communicate guidelines and updates via Discord.
• Answer questions on Russian wording, tone, and context.
• Onboard and activate remote trainers and QAs.
• Create and maintain Russian project documentation.

Skills

Russian proficiency

English proficiency

Quality assurance leadership

Remote team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Russian or Linguistics

Tools

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Job description

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

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Russian 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 Russian wording, grammar, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, 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 Russian 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 Russian-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Russian 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 Russian-language projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Russian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Russian 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 Russian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Russian grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, declension, aspect, gender agreement, tone, register, and cultural context.
• Comfortable handling formal, neutral, and conversational Russian, including audience adaptation and terminology consistency across domains.
• Ability to evaluate Russian content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, incorrect case usage, 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.