Project Specialist

Role Purpose

Your Impact

Coordinate assigned project workstreams - covering productivity, qualification, training, crowd communications, and QA - to ensure on-time delivery against execution standards
Deliver high-quality annotation and QA during POC and pilot phases to establish quality benchmarks and de-risk new client relationships from day one
Partner with Client Partners and Pilot Teams to validate quote assumptions, including time-per-task and quality requirements, before finalization
Analyze datasets to surface patterns, insights, and optimization opportunities that inform automation strategy and drive thought leadership content for customers
Support Project Managers and Client Partners as the AI expert point of contact across client meetings, workshops, QBRs, and status updates
Maintain version control and change communication protocols to ensure contributors are informed of guideline updates prior to launch and throughout production
Translate QA findings into targeted improvements to supporting materials, reducing recurring annotation errors and improving overall data quality
Provide data-backed findings and consultancy insight to strengthen Appen's advisory value during critical early project phases and ongoing client relationships

What You Bring

Proven experience coordinating or delivering data annotation, content evaluation, or AI training data projects in a structured delivery environment
Strong understanding of data quality principles, QA methodologies, and annotation workflows within GenAI or adjacent AI domains
Ability to create clear, accurate contributor-facing documentation including guidelines, FAQs, and cheatsheets under tight timelines
Experience supporting pilot or POC phases, including validating operational assumptions and establishing quality benchmarks
Demonstrated ability to analyse datasets, identify patterns, and translate findings into actionable insights or process improvements
Confident communicator with experience engaging cross-functional stakeholders, including client-facing participation in meetings, workshops, or reporting cycles
Disciplined approach to version control, update management, and change communication across distributed contributor teams
Comfortable operating across multiple concurrent workstreams with a high degree of ownership and attention to delivery standards

Why You’ll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models. You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.

The hourly target compensation for this full-time role ranges from $20 –$25 USD per hour. Actual compensation is determined based on role, level, location, experience and technical expertise. Appen offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, retirement plan options and paid time off.