About the Role
What if your native fluency in Marathi and your experience guiding others could directly shape how AI learns to understand spoken language? We're looking for a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the Mumbai metropolitan area to lead our Marathi audio transcription project. You'll oversee a distributed team of language labelers and reviewers, provide expert linguistic guidance, and drive consistent, high-quality output from start to finish.
As India's largest city and a hub of Marathi culture and media, Mumbai is an ideal location to source the experienced, detail-oriented SME this project needs.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who combines deep Marathi language knowledge with the ability to coach, audit, and communicate clearly — all from the comfort of their own home.
- Organization: Alignerr
- Type: Hourly Contract
- Location: Remote
- Commitment: Hours may vary based on project demands, team needs, and project volume
What You'll Do
- Lead and support a team of Marathi-specific labelers and reviewers throughout the project
- Serve as the primary language and project subject matter expert, providing guidance on transcription, labeling, and language-specific questions
- Ensure accuracy, consistency, and quality standards are maintained across all project work
- Monitor team performance and identify recurring quality issues, trends, or areas requiring additional guidance
- Conduct regular audits of labeling and reviewing work and provide actionable feedback
- Manage project-related communications and questions through Discord
- Host Office Hours to answer questions, clarify guidelines, and provide ongoing support to the labeling and reviewing teams
- Help identify ambiguities or gaps in project guidelines and escalate issues when necessary
- Participate in team meetings, calibration sessions, and project discussions
- Support alignment between labelers and reviewers to ensure consistent application of project guidelines
- Communicate important project updates, changes, and quality expectations to the assigned language team
- Collaborate with Project Operators and Project Managers to address quality, workflow, and performance concerns
Who You Are
- Native proficiency in Marathi with a strong ear for natural spoken usage across different contexts and registers
- Strong understanding of Marathi grammar, vocabulary, regional or dialectal variation, pronunciation, and colloquial speech
- Experience with audio transcription, data labeling, linguistic annotation, quality assurance, or AI/ML data projects preferred
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify subtle linguistic, transcription, or labeling errors
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Marathi
- Experience providing feedback, coaching, or leading teams is preferred
- Comfortable working independently and managing multiple project priorities
- Familiarity with Discord or similar online collaboration platforms
Nice to Have
- Background in Marathi media, broadcasting, journalism, or language education
- Prior experience working on AI or ML data annotation projects
- Knowledge of Marathi dialectal variation across Maharashtra's regions
- Experience with transcription tools, annotation platforms, or content review systems
Why Join Us
- Lead a team on cutting-edge AI projects alongside leading research labs
- Fully remote and flexible work
- Shape how AI understands and processes spoken Marathi for millions of people
- Build specialized leadership and quality-assurance skills in AI data pipelines
- Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch