Annotation Coordinator (Onsite Client Location)

TL;DR

Annotation Coordinator (AI): Overseeing an onsite team for multimodal AI data annotation and collection with an accent on quality control, workflow management, and guideline interpretation. Focus on conducting training, ensuring data accuracy, and maintaining process documentation.

Location: Onsite 5 days a week at the client location in Cambridge, USA

Company

Appen is a global leader in AI enablement, providing data sourcing, annotation, and model evaluation services to improve artificial intelligence systems for various industries.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary point of contact between internal project stakeholders and the annotation team.
• Manage daily scheduling, assignment distribution, task prioritization, and workload balancing.
• Own and enforce quality control processes, including audits, review cycles, and reporting.
• Interpret evolving annotation requirements, schemas, and task guidelines, and communicate updates to the team.
• Lead and participate in ad hoc data collection.
• Conduct staff onboarding, training, and calibration sessions to align the team on standards and expectations.

Requirements

• Prior experience in data annotation, data quality operations, or similar analytical roles.
• Proven ability to coordinate teams, manage workflows, and communicate effectively.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working with text, audio, video, or multimodal content.
• Ability to work onsite fulltime at the client location in Cambridge.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills (English B2 required).

Nice to have

• Familiarity with annotation tools, taxonomies, and structured labeling guidelines is beneficial.

Culture & Benefits

• Purpose-driven culture focused on unlocking the power of AI to build a better world.
• Learn-it-all culture that values perspective, growth, and innovation.
• Customer-obsessed, action-oriented, and celebrates winning together.
• Committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and an equal opportunity employer.

Hiring process

• Artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be used to support parts of the hiring process, assisting the recruitment team but not replacing human judgment.