Linguistic Data Project Manager

Key Skills

English Proficiency, Google Suite, Machine learning techniques, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python Programming, Regular expression - RegEx

Job Description

QuillBot is an AI-powered writing platform on a mission to reimagine writing. QuillBot provides over 25 million monthly active students, professionals, and educators with free online writing and research tools to help them become more effective, productive, and confident. The QuillBot team was built on the idea that learning how to write and using that knowledge is empowering. They want to automate the more time-consuming parts of writing so that users can focus on their craft. Whether you’re writing essays, social media posts, or emails, QuillBot has your back. It has an array of productivity-enhancing tools that are already changing the way the world writes.

Ideal Candidate

• 3+ years of experience working with data for machine learning model training, including generation, annotation, labeling, and evaluation.
• 1+ years of experience managing a team working on linguistic and/or machine learning data.
• 1+ years of experience in hiring for linguistic and/or machine learning data work, particularly with a contingent workforce.
• Experience with business productivity tools like GSuite, Notion, and Slack
• Native speaker of North American English (born/raised in the USA or Canada and lived there for the majority of the past 5 years)
• Bachelor's degree
• Ability to understand and apply detailed editing and data annotation guidelines
• Ability to perform repetitive tasks while paying constant attention to detail and deliver accurate and precise work
• Ability to communicate effectively with individuals of diverse backgrounds to lead tasks and projects
• Ability to work independently, including managing your schedule, attending all required meetings, and completing projects within a deadline
• Programming experience with Python, including familiarity with data structures and text processing in a commercial environment (nice to have)
• Ability to write and use regular expressions to manipulate data (nice to have)
• Master’s degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science or related field (nice to have)

Job Responsibilities

• Manage multiple linguistic data tasks and apply linguistics and project management skills.
• Ensure task deliveries while managing communication among stakeholders.
• Plan tasks and manage task leads independently according to quality, scope, and schedule; assure effective project execution and delivery.
• Report project progress, manage risk and resolve issues, and take required corrective action to guarantee project success.
• Interacting with the research team to understand highly specific annotation, style, and editing requirements.
• Writing guidelines and documentation, and training team members to follow them.
• Work cross-functionally with members of research, product, design, and other teams, to ensure that the project requirements are being met.
• Maintain frequent and close contact with all internal project stakeholders.
• Share information and demonstrate effort for process improvement
• Perform US English (en-US) writing and editing tasks.
• Annotating, reviewing, and validating datasets for natural language processing/machine learning (NLP/ML) training and evaluation
• Writing paraphrased versions of text samples in a highly specific manner according to tone, manner of speech, complexity, and many other factors
• Editing text to correct grammar and fluency/naturalness
• Train team members on complex product features, task guidelines, and processes
• Monitor and review team member performance and work quality
• Instruct team members on writing and revising documentation, and review documentation for quality and consistency
• Conduct evaluations to assess the quality of task design and the resulting data
• Perform tasks related to data annotation and generation, which may include data analysis, small coding projects based on requirements from the research team, and research

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