Data Labeling Coordinator

AssemblyAI is a remote-first AI company building powerful deep learning models for developers, startups, and enterprises to transcribe and understand their audio data.

Our ASR models already outperform companies like Google, AWS, and Microsoft - which is why hundreds of companies and thousands of developers are using our APIs to transcribe and understand millions of videos, podcasts, phone calls, and zoom meetings every day. Our APIs power innovative products like conversational intelligence platforms, zoom meeting summarizers, content moderation, and automatic closed captioning.

AssemblyAI’s Speech-to-Text APIs are already trusted by Fortune 500s, startups, and thousands of developers around the world, with well-known customers including Spotify, Algolia, Dow Jones, Happy Scribe, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, and NBCUniversal. As part of a huge and emerging market, AssemblyAI is well on its way to becoming the leader in speech recognition and NLP.

We're growing at breakneck speed, and recently announced our Series B round. We've raised $63M in total funding, and are backed by leading investors including Insight Partners, Accel, Y Combinator, Patrick and John Collision (Founders of Stripe), Nat Friedman (Former CEO of GitHub), and Daniel Gross (Entrepreneur & Investor in companies including GitHub, Uber & SpaceX)!

Our ambition is to build an iconic AI company, making advanced deep learning technology accessible to everyday developers through a simple API, good docs, and a great developer experience.

Join our world-class, remote team and help us build an iconic deep learning company!

The Role

AssemblyAI is growing quickly, and we’re searching for a Data Labeling Coordinator to help us manage our data collection efforts. With significant investment and strong leadership to fuel our growth, it’s the perfect time to join the AssemblyAI team!

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Source data providers and the costs for the data
• Source companies that provide data labeling services
• Work with AssemblyAI’s research team to get data labeled for specific tasks
• Drive labeling workflows and projects success metrics and timeline
• Follow up with labeling providers to ensure progress is being made
• Work with a data scientists to ensure that the quality of the labeled data is high
• Ensure we can legally use data by working with AssemblyAI’s leadership team and/or legal counsel
• Hire data scientists, QA personal, and whoever else necessary to achieve department goals

You’ll love this job if…

• You’re a self-motivated & passionate about content quality
• Thrive in a highly operational & fast-paced startup environment
• You’re a creative problem solver with attention to detail

Requirements

• 3+ years of industry experience as a project manager or related experience
• 2+ years of experience managing labeling projects for machine learning, quality assurance, or similar
• Experience sourcing qualified third-party providers to fulfill project requirements
• Experience managing external partners and/or contracted workforces in a technical field
• Experience reading and writing technical documentation
• Experience in Excel and/or SQL
• Experience communicating in person and virtually with global teams
• Experience building team reports
• Experience working with and communicating with technical teams
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience

Skills

• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences as well as internal and external partnerships
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, continuously changing startup environment
• Strong technical documentation skills
• Strong prioritization & project management skills
• Self-motivated and driven with a demonstrated a commitment to taking accountability

Our Team

Our team is made up of problem solvers, innovators and top AI researchers with over 20+ years of experience in Machine Learning, NLP, and Speech Recognition from companies like DeepMind, Google Brain, Meta, Apple and Amazon. They conduct cutting edge deep learning research and develop novel algorithms & techniques to continually push the state of the art in speech recognition & NLP!

Our team is fully remote, and our culture is super collaborative, low-ego, transparent, and fast-paced. We want to win - and have a flat organization where everyone can openly share ideas (regardless of their title or position) in order to get the best idea.

As a remote company, our team members are given a lot of trust and autonomy to work where and how they want. We look for people to join our team who are ambitious, curious, and self-motivated, and we put a lot of trust and autonomy into everyone on our team. We want to empower everyone to do their best work with whatever tools, structures, or resources they need to perform at their highest potential.

How to Apply

Submit Application Here

Benefits (US)

• Competitive Salary + Bonus
• Equity
• 401k
• 100% Remote team
• Unlimited PTO
• Premium Healthcare (100% Covered for you + dependents)
• Vision & Dental Care
• $1K budget for your home office setup
• New Macbook Pro (or PC if you prefer)
• 2x/year company paid team retreat