German Team Lead

About this role

You will work as a German Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across German AI training projects. You will review AI-generated German 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.

German Quality Assurance, Translation QA,

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check German 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 German wording, grammar, tone, register, translation fidelity, cultural context, terminology, and Germany/Austria/Switzerland usage differences.
• Documentation: Create and maintain German project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, examples, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Onboarding and training: Schedule and run onboarding/training calls with trainers and QAs to explain project expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and German-specific style requirements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in German, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance, or a relevant domain/related field.
• Native or near-native German proficiency with strong reading and writing skills.
• 3+ years of professional experience in German writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, education, annotation, or related language-review workflows.
• Strong understanding of German grammar, spelling conventions, punctuation, capitalization, compounds, cases, tone, register, business writing norms, and cultural context.
• Comfortable handling Germany, Austria, and Switzerland German usage differences where relevant, including vocabulary, spelling, tone, and localization expectations.