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Strategic Project Lead - Speech & Audio AI (United States)
Remote US · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 1–2+ years; no alternatives stated.
About the job
Leads speech and audio AI data projects from scoping through delivery, translating client goals into workflows and quality standards.
What you'll do
- Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, staffing, risks, and client communication.
- Develop annotation workflows, guidelines, tools, and quality measures; troubleshoot quality issues with clients.
- Advise on speech and audio project feasibility and evaluation, and build reusable QA resources while mentoring Operations Specialists.
What they ask for
- 1–2+ years of experience in AI data operations, project coordination, or delivery.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Experience with ASR transcription, speaker diarization, acoustic annotation, or TTS evaluation.
- Familiarity with voice-agent scripts, IVR, dialogue design, turn-taking, or conversational evaluation.
Tools
ASR, TTS, IVR, WER
AI focus
Runs data pilots and projects for speech and audio AI training and evaluation, including transcription, diarization, and conversational AI workflows.
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