Estonian Team Lead

About this role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Estonian Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Estonian AI training projects. You will review AI-generated Estonian content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.

Localization QA, Trainer Feedback, LLM Evaluation

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check Estonian items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, and quality expectations.
• Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around Estonian wording, grammar, case endings, compounds, register, translation fidelity, and terminology.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.
• Documentation: Create and maintain Estonian project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Estonian, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native Estonian proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear feedback in English.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Estonian writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of Estonian grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, diacritics, case endings, compounds, word order, tone, register, and cultural context.