SME CareersMultilingual & translation
Kannada Team Lead
up to $30/hr
About this role, in SME Careers' words
In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Kannada Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Kannada AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Kannada 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.
What you'll do
Responsibilities
- Quality monitoring: Spot-check Kannada 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 Kannada wording, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, regional variation, and edge cases.
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- 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 Kannada 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 Kannada-specific style requirements.
- Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Kannada 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 Kannada-language projects.
Candidate background
Requirements, 5 of 10 shown
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Kannada, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
- Native or near-native Kannada 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 Kannada writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
- Strong understanding of Kannada grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, regional variation, and cultural context.
The other 5 may also decide whether you qualify.
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- Ability to evaluate Kannada content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, 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.
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Full job descriptionThe original posting, in SME Careers' words
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In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Kannada Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Kannada AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Kannada 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 Kannada 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 Kannada quality leadership will directly help improve the world’s premier AI models by ensuring that Kannada training data is natural, accurate, culturally appropriate, well-documented, and aligned with client expectations.
Responsibilities
• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Kannada 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 Kannada wording, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, regional variation, 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 Kannada 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 Kannada-specific style requirements.
• Quality alignment: Ensure all trainers and QAs apply Kannada 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 Kannada-language projects.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Kannada, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Kannada 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 Kannada writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Kannada grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, tone, register, regional variation, and cultural context.
• Ability to evaluate Kannada content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as mistranslation, literal phrasing, unnatural tone, 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.
Location: Remote
How does the pay compare?Across Multilingual & translation roles, not this role alone
From our own daily reads of every open listing on the platforms we follow, not from SME Careers's posting. How we count.
Pay across the field: Multilingual & translation
Across 629 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 17 platforms, the middle half pays $20 to $50 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $35. This role's top rate, $30, is in the middle half. Of the 76 distinct rates we count, 32 are lower and 40 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial (Invisible) | 310 | $20 to $65 |
| SME Careers (this platform) | 63 | $15 to $60 · median $35 |
| RWS TrainAI | 52 | $10 to $36.45 · median $22 |
| Alignerr | 43 | $20 to $120 · median $80 |
| DataAnnotation | 40 | $40 |
Other open roles in Kannada
4 roles with a stated hourly rate in US dollars also ask for Kannada, on 4 platforms. Their top rates run from $20 to $65 an hour.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Meridial (Invisible) | 1 | $65 |
| DataAnnotation | 1 | $40 |
| AfterQuery | 1 | $30 |
| SME Careers (this platform) | 1 | $20 |
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- First seen here on 6 Oct 2026, and still on SME Careers's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by SME Careers
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- Listing ID
- 54703812-44b2-4dbc-884f-cc98ead269d4
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