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Appen

Strategic Project Lead – Speech & Audio AI

Appen

. Own end-to-end delivery across project scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, and risks .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing AI data operations and project delivery, with a focus on quality assurance and client communication. Proficient in developing annotation guidelines and workflows while mentoring team members in a fast-paced AI environment.

Highest-signal resume keywords
AI Data Operations ExperienceProject CoordinationQuality Assurance MethodsSpeech and Audio WorkflowsBilingual or Multilingual Capabilities

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Hard Skills
ASR TranscriptionSpeaker DiarizationAcoustic AnnotationTTS EvaluationAnnotation WorkflowsQuality Metrics MonitoringData Quality UnderstandingGuideline DevelopmentWorkflow TranslationProblem-Solving Skills
Soft Skills
Client CommunicationStakeholder ManagementMentoringAdaptabilityPrioritization
Tools & Technologies
Voice-Agent ScriptsIVRDialogue DesignTurn-TakingConversational Evaluation
Industry Keywords
GenAIFrontier AILocalizationCross-Locale ConsistencyCJK LanguagesLow-Resource Languages

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • 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, word error rate (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, evaluation methods, and tooling
  • 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

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 1–2+ years of experience in AI data operations, project coordination, or delivery, ideally in a GenAI or frontier AI environment
  • Hands-on familiarity with at least one speech, audio, language, or conversational AI workflow
  • Experience coordinating projects or workstreams, managing stakeholders, and communicating with clients
  • Understanding of data quality, annotation workflows, and quality assurance methods
  • Ability to turn client requirements into clear guidelines, workflows, and quality standards
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
  • Interest in current AI developments, including speech, audio, and voice-agent technologies
  • Experience with ASR transcription, speaker diarization, acoustic annotation, or TTS evaluation
  • Familiarity with voice-agent scripts, IVR, dialogue design, turn-taking, or conversational evaluation
  • Experience with localization, cross-locale consistency, CJK languages, or low-resource languages
  • Bilingual or multilingual capabilities, particularly German or a Nordic language

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Tools and resources to support work
  • Development opportunities to build capability
  • Innovation, collaboration, and excellence-focused culture