Language Lead – French

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary language expert and reliable contact for French voice AI initiatives.

• Oversee annotation quality, conduct data audits, monitor product performance, investigate customer-reported concerns, and manage linguistically complex assignments.

• Collaborate with the Human Evals Manager regarding project deliverables and timelines.

• Address annotator inquiries related to guidelines, edge cases, and language-specific matters.

• Relay feedback, instructions, and updates on rubrics to annotators.

• Review audio rated by annotators and evaluate its conformity with rubrics.

• Create written quality assessments that include examples and recommendations.

• Assess the pronunciation, prosody, and naturalness of TTS in French.

• Revise and enhance annotation guidelines.

• Conduct calibration meetings and hold office hours.

• Develop onboarding resources for annotators.

• Produce QA reports detailing annotation quality and calibration results.

• Examine production audio and identify quality concerns.

• Investigate language issues reported by customers and determine root causes.

• Audit datasets for linguistic precision, completeness, and consistency.

⛳️ Requirements

• Native-level proficiency in French as spoken in France.

• Background in data annotation, transcription, or language quality assurance.

• Strong foundation in linguistics or a related discipline.

• Capability to apply phonetics, prosody, and intonation when assessing speech and writing annotation guidelines.

• Strong written proficiency in English.

• Ability to craft clear, structured instructions and provide specific, actionable feedback.

• Comfortable utilizing inter-rater agreement scores, audit spreadsheets, and structured feedback templates.

• Self-motivated with the ability to manage feedback cycles, QA reviews, and data projects independently.

• Availability of approximately 40 hours per week with scheduling flexibility.

• Willingness to attend coordination meetings and overlap schedules during US Pacific business hours.

• Must be authorized to work in your country of residence.

• Preferred: experience in writing or maintaining annotation guidelines or rubrics.

• Preferred: experience in training, mentoring, or managing annotators.

• Preferred: experience with audio evaluation, TTS, or STT.

• Preferred: conversational spoken English proficiency for meetings and calibration syncs.

• Preferred: experience working with distributed, remote teams.

• Must provide personal equipment and manage own taxes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Ongoing contractor engagement, renewable by mutual consent.

• Flexible scheduling.

• Autonomy over methods for completing assigned tasks.

• Competitive base salary along with an attractive equity package (US Employees Only benefits section).

• Comprehensive medical insurance, including dental and vision coverage for you and your family (US Employees Only).

• 9 weeks of paternity leave and 12 weeks of maternity leave (US Employees Only).

• 401(k) plan (US Employees Only).

• Monthly commuter allowance (US Employees Only).

• Flexible paid time off (PTO) (US Employees Only).

• Daily provision of lunch, dinner, and an abundance of snacks (US Employees Only).

• Your own personal Yoshi (US Employees Only).

• Visa sponsorship support evaluated on a case-by-case basis.