Thai Team Lead

SME Careers; United States; A distancia; USD 41.000 - 83.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

SME Careers is seeking a Thai Quality Assurance Lead to oversee quality across Thai AI training projects. The role requires strong Thai and English skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote teams. You will review AI-generated Thai content, provide precise feedback, and support onboarding and documentation.

Selection involves an AI interview and a domain task. There is no immediate project, but qualified experts will be contacted for relevant

Formación

• Native or near-native Thai proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong command of English to follow guidelines and provide feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Thai writing, editing, translation, localization, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Thai grammar, tone, politeness markers, and cultural context.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, editors, or QAs is preferred.
• Experience with AI training, data annotation, or rubric-based QA is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Quality monitoring: spot-check Thai items and provide ongoing feedback.
• Trainer/QA communication: update trainers on guidelines and project changes via Discord.
• Question handling: respond to Thai wording, tone, and translation fidelity questions.
• Activation management: DM inactive contributors and track follow-ups.
• Documentation: create and maintain Thai project documentation and style guides.
• Onboarding and training: run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs.
• Quality alignment: ensure Thai guidelines are consistently applied as projects evolve.
• Process improvement: identify quality gaps and help build scalable QA processes.

Conocimientos

Thai proficiency

English proficiency

Remote team collaboration

Quality assurance

Detail-oriented

AI training familiarity

Educación

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Thai or related field

Herramientas

Discord

Google Sheets

Google Docs

Dashboards

Descripción del empleo

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Thai Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Thai AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Thai 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 Thai 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 Thai quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Thai 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 Thai items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escal
• 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 Thai wording, tone, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, politeness level, formatting, 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 Thai 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 Thai-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Thai 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 Thai-language projects.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Thai, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Thai 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 Thai writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Thai grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, formal/informal usage, politeness markers, and cultural context.
• Ability to evaluate Thai content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, incorrect register, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology.
• Comfortable handling Thai-specific formatting and style issues, including word spacing, sentence flow, loanwords, honorifics, and audience-appropriate phrasing.
• 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.