Language Data Project Manager

Language Data Project Manager

Location: New York, NY/Hybrid
Duration: 6 months with possible extension up to 1 year

Description:
Role Overview:
Team handles language data collection and focusing to expand current language coverage: Management of all data we currently have in our current system, need to render usable, currently sitting in databases takes a lot of people hours to process/ingest. Using all of our tech resources to unify all the data we have language inclusivity moonshot, linear and clear reporting structures, that we are collecting, ingesting. -Help with data entry, conducting external research, working with tons of data, working with challenging data sets. Unifying various kinds of metadata.
It is a supporting role where project manager will be supporting small projects.

Project Overview:
This position is with Speech Data Operations (SDO) and team is working on one of the Speech Recognition, client’s AI Language Model which has 3 main areas 1) language metadata – what country language is spoken in how many people 2) tracking data acquisition projects, what is available externally, 3) what current technological; support we have with the language (translate, text as speech. Continuing to help out with data ingest.

Core Responsibilities:
– Track incoming datasets from open-source repos and vendor companies.
– File and track SDO data requests and follow up on queries via internal bugs.
– Analyze the format of raw datasets.
– Split data into test and train portions.
– Use/improve existing tools to convert raw data to standard formats.
– Deliver data to researchers for use in model training.
– The Language Data Project Manager will oversee and manage all work related to achieving high data quality for speech projects in target languages/locales which includes:
– Conducting external research involving the sourcing of language corpora.
– Data Entry tasks involving the managing and organizing of information to be entered into the database.
– Explore new methods of data gathering for a higher throughput.

Required Skills/ Experience:
– Basics of SQL and Python required. An ideal candidate should have mix of project management and coding (SQL or Python).
– Someone who can map out timeline and deliverables using data analysis. Updates on statuses and gaps.
– Prefer candidates coming from any large tech companies with language specialization like Microsoft, Meta, Pinterest Or relevant academic background at a postgraduate level.
– Role is focused on the data inside the program, a part of the linguistic background, less work on Machine Learning
– 5+ years of experience in project management is required.

Call notes:
Responsibilities:
– Management of large data in the system.
– Using technological sources for developing linear and closure services.
– Dive into data entry, external research, unifying tons of data in reporting structure.

Three main goals of the project:
– Managing language data.
– Tracking data collection project.
– Technology support for the language translate speech recognition.

This is more of a supporting role.

Top three skills:
– Project management experience.
– Basic proficiency with a coding language such as C++, SQL, Bash, Python
– Data entry, tracking and reporting on progress.

Nice to have:
Linguistic diversity- familiar with multiple languages/multilingual, technologies.
Familiarity with language models/Studied linguist at graduate level.
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