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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Tasks
- Review text to identify and categorize financial transactions
Project Information:
- Employment type: Fixed term project based contract
- Work location: In-office (Exeter, UK)
- Work schedule: Part-time/ flexible project hours to be confirmed
Requirements:
- Must be native-level speaker of Spanish
- Must have lived in Spain and be familiar with in country brand names, stores, venues etc.
- Must be living within the UK, preferably in or within commutable distance of Exeter
What we offer:
- Compensation: £9/hour
- Training and the opportunity to join a highly successful global business
- 28 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) within first year of service, after completion of second year of service this will increase to 30 days
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Description
Reporting to China Finance Manager and this position is base in our New Shanghai office. The position will focus on leading accounts payable team to deliver the payment process in accurate and timely manner for China legal entities. The key responsibilities will include:
1.Validating, coding, timely and accurate processing of vendor/supplier invoices and employee expense reimbursements in the accounting system conforming to standard procedures.
2. Adding, maintaining the vendor details in the accounting system.
3. Reconcile supplier accounts, troubleshoot and resolves disputes, respond to vendor and customers inquires promptly.
4. Disbursing petty cash by recording entry; verifying authorization and documentation.
5. Responsible for contract management in ERP system.
6. Participate in recommending system and process enhancements.
7. Assisting with month-end closing and annual audit.
8. Providing sufficient support on new legal entity setting up.
9. Ad hoc duties as per China Finance Manager’s request.
Key Qualifications
• 3+ years' experience in the financial accounting work
• Bachelor degree with major in Accounting, Finance or Economics.
• Experience with ERP system and proficiency in MS Word and MS Excel (Intermediate Level)
• Good interpersonal skills and experience with high transaction volumes, influencing skills and excellent team players with strong customer focus.
• Able to work independently and keen to take responsibility and to multi-task in a fast-paced, high pressure and adaptable to a changing environment
• Able to demonstrate strong analytical skills with experience of complex problem solving; with high degree of accuracy, confidentiality and attention to detail
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, Good command of English
• Ability to work effectively in a virtual environment
• Flexible, independent, calm and self-motivated
• Demonstrates a sense of urgency and ability to meet deadlines and time management skills
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Description
Reporting to China Finance Manager. The position will focus on leading transaction team and delivering accurate financial information for management and statutory reporting for China legal entities.
The key responsibilities will include:
1. Preparing the monthly account reconciliations and month end reports.
2. Submitting the monthly VAT tax return accurate and on time .
3. Maintaining the fixed asset register.
4. Laising with external auditors and assistance in preparation of statutory financial statements and half year review.
5. Assisting in the preparation of the Half Year and Annual financial reports.
6. Assisting in the preparation of the income tax return for China legal entities.
7. Assisting in monthly cash flow forecast and weekly cash balance report.
8. Providing sufficient support on new legal entity setting up.
Key Qualifications
• 5+ years' experience in the financial accounting work
• Bachelor degree with major in Accounting, Finance or Economics.
• Excellent attention to detail, ability to prioritise and work towards deadlines
• Be someone who takes initiative and recognises the needs of the role both within and outside of the job specifications and take steps to achieve the best outcome
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven culture
• Able to respond quickly and positively to new or changed initiatives
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, Good command of English
• Ability to work effectively in a virtual environment
• Flexible, independent, calm and self-motivated
• Lateral thinking and problem solving ability
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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The Project Assistant- Video Recording Supervisor will manage recording for an in car video project. The successful candidate will be a people person with a “can do” attitude.
The successful applicant will be responsible for:
- Scheduling and supervising participants on site
- Managing and mastering specialist in car video recording equipment
- Managing data flow and tracking progress
- Identifying and reporting quality issues to the project manager
- Assisting project managers in ad hoc project tasks and duties as required
- Maintaining communication with data collection teams and other stakeholders
Details:
- Duration: expected 3 months
- Casual position
- Full time availability to work in our Chatswood office Monday to Friday between the hours of 9-5 desirable
- Requires Australian working rights
- Requires Australia full driver’s license
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Ability to make quick, justifiable decisions in situations of uncertainty or ambiguity
- Ability to maintain accurate and well-ordered documentation and reporting on project tracking systems
- Highly organized, precise and details oriented
- Independent and self-motivated with a proactive "can-do" attitude
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Proven technological competency
- Data management skills, including formulas and functions on excel and google sheets
- Demonstrates a creative, independent and adaptive approach to problem solving
- Ability to deliver consistently in a fast-paced environment under strict deadlines
- Strong communications skills in English, both written and oral
- A full Australian driver’s license
Other Advantageous Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Video recording technology knowledge or work experience
- Experience working with crowd sourcing
- Experience working in customer service
- Conversational communication skills in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Arabic OR any African language
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has subsidiaries in United States, United Kingdom, Philippines, and China. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and images, etc. Appen has a pool of more than 1 million prequalified crowd resources around the world able to provide data collection and processing services in more than 180 languages. Appen’s client include global leaders in high-tech, automotive, e-commerce, etc. and governments to help them develop and improve products and technologies based on natural language understanding and machine learning. Appen is listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with stock code: APX
Staff Computer Vision Research Scientist (Must Be Commutable To Sunnyvale, CA)
Artificial Intelligence is transforming the world in almost every industry. Everyone knows only good training data can produce the best machine learning solutions. However, creating training data with high quality in a scalable way is very challenging, and very few companies can do it. The whole AI world is starving for great training data. Appen is the market lead in training data generation field for more than 22 years and generates all kinds of training data like content relevance, image & video, text & audio, as well as data capturing.
Appen Tech team is solving the AI data problem by combining the power of humans and technology. This world-class and exciting engineering position awaits a qualified candidate who will join Appen’s data science team.
We are seeking a staff research scientist with hands-on expertise in the computer vision area. You will build AI solutions to improve millions of annotators' efficiency at scale. You get the opportunity to work with our global tech team from Shanghai, Silicon Valley, and Sydney. It is a leading data company with a start-up culture. And we only want people who want to make a huge impact on the AI world instead of just a job!
Key Responsibilities
- Build AI/ML solutions to improve worker annotation efficiency, which includes image object detection & annotation, video object tracking, pixel-level semantic segmentation, 3D Lidar object detection, data augmentation, and many other annotation tasks;
- Participate in cutting edge research in artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. Follow and drive AI data innovations through publishing papers, replicate the latest research, publishing blog posts as well as speak at conferences to build Appen’s thought leadership platform;
- Provide complete solutions to business problems using machine learning and computer vision related techniques.
- Serve as subject matter expert and drive thought leadership in the areas of deep learning, machine learning, and computer vision.
- Mentoring and coaching junior staff, driving internal operational excellence, and developing the career for junior data scientists.
Requirements
- PhD degree in Computer Science or equivalent is required for this position.
- 10+ years of industrial experience in computer vision, image and video processing areas
- Solid understanding of deep learning tech
- Excellent communications skills, both verbal and written in English
- Hands-on experience in developing backend services. Familiar with Java, Python, or other programming languages.
- Have good track records of architecting and developing computer vision solutions in large scale industry setup.
- Have extensive industry experience in computer vision domain with the ability to validate ideas before implementation.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Please note that by applying to this role, you are agreeing to be considered for multiple positions. This is a general description of the qualifications and skills required for positions of this type of role.
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Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and images, etc.
We're looking for experienced Linguists to support our client’s development of NLP and conversational understanding technologies.
You know that language data is the underpinning of all current language technologies. You love practical language analysis as well as theoretical. You're quick to learn and implement new label sets with a consideration for the purpose of the data. You're willing and able to spend several hours a day focusing on your task, with consistent results and are a fluent speaker of the target language.
Successful candidate must be able to work out of either San Francisco Bay area or Seattle/Redmond area.
Key Responsibilities: The successful candidate will be engaged in general responsibilities and at least one specialized role:
General Responsibilities:
- Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
- Pilot new label sets to test their feasibility
- Determine quality standards for annotation
- Annotate language data with linguistic information
- Curate large amounts of annotated data by analyzing annotations, comparing annotations to guidelines, and building gold analyses
Specialized Roles:
- An Ontology Manager to create and revise hierarchical label sets for natural language based on the needs of the product team
- A Tools Developer to generate tools for data annotation, data storage, and quality evaluation with an eye towards long-term development
- A Data Quality Engineer to monitor data collection, compile statistics, and ensure data quality
- A Technical Writer to distill complex concepts and group consensus into accessible guidelines
- A Grammar Developer to write regular expressions and Context-Free Grammars for data validation, named entity recognition, information extraction, etc.
- A Dialog Generator to conceptualize and create systems for Natural Language Generation
- An Assistant Designer to connect linguistic analyses and system APIs to provide a smooth user experience
Qualifications:
- Degree in Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Language Technologies, or related field
- Interest and experience in various areas of linguistics, including pragmatics, semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, phonetics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and field work
- Ability to formulate, articulate, and describe concepts and hypotheses that are broad enough to capture high-level concepts and specific enough to formalize as rules
- Collaborative and solution-oriented attitude
- Eagerness to learn new skills and adapt to a changing environment
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Enthusiasm for detail work and ability to focus for significant portions of the work day
- Experience with basic programming techniques and familiarity with languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, and C++
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree and/or industry experience
- Fluency in two or more natural languages
- Experience with Python
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, and video used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems.
With expertise in more than 180 languages, a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform, Appen solutions provide the quality, security, and speed required by leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and governments worldwide. Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices around the world.
About the AI Specialist Division (APAC/US)
Appen’s AI Specialist divisions create high-quality, human-annotated training data sets for human-computer interaction technologies. We believe these technologies should be inclusive of everyone – regardless of the language, dialect or accent in which they speak and write. Appen’s AI Specialists use their language knowledge and linguistics, computational aptitudes, strong organisational skills and highly creative thinking to create quality training data and solve challenging data problems.
Position Summary
To meet the rapid pace of industry growth, we are now seeking exceptionally talented, agile and motivated graduates to join a paid three-month summer internship program in our Chatswood (Sydney) office.
Paid Interns (AI Specialist Projects) will focus on linguistic and language-related projects. You will receive training in Appen’s methodology and will apply your excellent knowledge of linguistics and/or languages, technical skills and keen attention to detail to manage training data development projects to quality expectations, timelines, and budget. You will learn to manage stakeholder relationships and will apply your excellent communication skills and technical proficiency to getting the best results from teams of linguists and language specialists around the world.
Responsibilities
Under supervision, and with appropriate training, the Paid Intern (AI Specialist Projects) will:
- Plan and manage linguistic and/or language-related AI Specialist projects to quality, time and budget to ensure effective project execution and delivery
- Onboard and train a virtual team of consultants to create, evaluate or annotate language data for training AI applications in multiple languages
- Prepare guidelines, training materials and tools, aligned to client specifications
- Oversee the work of consultants, including task assignment, scheduling and monitoring
- Ensure close and regular communication with all internal project stakeholders
- Document and manage language resources and knowledge arising from projects
- Communicate with all stakeholders in a timely, clear and concise manner
- Adapt to changing project needs and expectations
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project and participant details and other sensitive information
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor's degree or above in a relevant field (linguistics, computational linguistics, translation or languages)
- Strong understanding of linguistic and language-related concepts and terminology
- Strong technical and data management skills
Proficiencies
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy
- Proficiency in English, with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Fluency in a second language is highly regarded
- Commitment to quality (able to follow quality management processes)
- Agility and a service-oriented approach
- Able to work proactively to resolve issues
- Demonstrated time management and organisational skills with attention to detail
- Ability to thrive in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Attention to detail
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen collects and labels images, text, speech, audio, and video used to build and continuously improve the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence systems.
With expertise in more than 180 languages, a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, and the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform, Appen solutions provide the quality, security, and speed required by leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, manufacturing, and governments worldwide.
Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices around the world.
Position Summary
Appen’s Data Collection division collects language and image data to train current and new natural language processing and artificial intelligence applications. Appen’s Data Collection Specialists bring their strong organisational skills, computational aptitude, flair for data management, and highly creative thinking to bear on collecting quality training data sets and solving challenging data problems for our clients on a daily basis.
To meet the rapid pace of industry growth, we are now seeking exceptionally talented, agile and motivated graduates to join a paid three-month summer internship program in our Chatswood, Sydney office.
Paid Interns (AI Specialist Projects) will receive training in Appen’s methodology for AI Training Data Collection projects, using Appen’s data collection systems, software and equipment. Interns will apply their excellent organisational and data management skills, technical skills and keen attention to detail to manage training data collection projects to quality expectations, timelines, and budget. Interns will learn to manage stakeholder relationships and will apply their exceptional communication skills and their technical proficiency to getting the best results from data collection participants around the world.
Responsibilities
Under supervision, and with appropriate training, the Paid Intern (AI Specialist Projects) will:
- Use Appen’s crowd management and data collection tools to execute data collection projects of different types
- Maintain project trackers, monitor key project metrics and provide project reports as required
- Analyse project performance and take appropriate actions (with guidance from a Data Collection Specialist or Project Manager)
- Respond to participant queries
- Set up payments for data collection participants
- Deliver to project objectives within project scope, timeline and budget
- Follow quality management processes and take corrective measures as required
- Provide training to QA checkers and data collection participants as required
- Manage QA checker performance
- Communicate with all stakeholders in a timely, clear and concise manner
- Adapt to changing project needs and expectations
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project and participant details and other sensitive information
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary
Qualifications
- BS or BA degree from an accredited university
Proficiencies
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy
- Proficiency in English, with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Fluency in a second language is highly regarded
- Commitment to quality (able to follow quality management processes)
- Experience with audio recording equipment and software desirable
- Agility and a service-oriented approach
- Able to work proactively to resolve issues
- Demonstrated time management and organisational skills
- Ability to thrive in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Attention to detail
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is the world's leading innovative technology company, providing high-quality language and data services for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen has more than 20 years of experience in collecting and processing a variety of data, including data types such as speech, text, and images, etc.
We are seeking resumes of native level Arabic or Thai speakers with linguistics background. This is an onsite full-time Appen employee position at the client’s facility in the San Francisco Bay Area. The position is still tentative but expected to start within 4-6 weeks. Successful candidates will need to pass a screening test as well as a background check.
Key Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be engaged in general responsibilities:
- Collaboratively develop complex and consistent linguistic analyses
- Annotate language data with linguistic information
- Determine quality standards for annotation
- Curate large amounts of annotated data by analyzing annotations, comparing annotations to guidelines, and building gold analyses
- Pilot new label sets to test their feasibility
Required Knowledge, Skills, Ablities:
- Degree in Linguistics or a related field
- Native level speakers of Arabic (any dialect) or Thai
- Interest in various areas of linguistics, including pragmatics, semantics, syntax and morphology
- Ability to formulate, articulate, and describe concepts and hypotheses that are broad enough to capture high-level
- concepts and specific enough to formalize as rules
- Strong analytical language data skills
- Collaborative and solution-oriented attitude
- Eagerness to learn new skills and adapt to a changing environment
- Strong problem solving and analytical skills
- Enthusiasm for detail work and ability to focus for significant portions of the work day
- Ability to speak and write in English fluently and idiomatically
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree and/or industry experience
- Fluency in two or more natural languages
- Experience working with large ontologies and label sets
- Familiarity with version control, unit tests, and other programming best practices
- Experience with basic programming techniques
- Familiarity with languages such as Python, PHP, Perl, and C++
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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About Appen
Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Summary (Must Be Commutable To Kirkland, WA or Sunnyvale, CA)
The Data Privacy Officer/Privacy Counsel is a permanent Appen function to be based out of Kirkland, WA or Sunnyvale, CA. Appen is looking for an experienced, motivated, practical solution-oriented attorney with expertise in privacy, data protection, software/SAAS licensing and sales of technology products/services/solutions and other commercial transactions to join our Legal Department. In this role, you will work closely with Sales, Business Development, Product Management, Engineering, Information Technology, Human Resources and Information security teams, as well as with other customer-facing functions to help solve complex legal and operational problems.
Responsibilities
Reporting to VP and General Counsel, the Data Privacy Officer/Privacy Counsel will manage specific duties:
- Advise internal stakeholders and offer actionable guidance and solutions on the application, impact and implementation of all applicable global privacy and data protection laws, including GDPR, HIPAA, the California Consumer Privacy Act and other national, state and industry-specific laws, regulations and standards.
- Assist with the development, review and resolution of DPIAs/PIAs.
- Implement, support and report on Appen’s data privacy operational compliance requirements – e.g. Data privacy impact assessment process, data subject access review process – for applicable data privacy laws. Advise product management and engineering teams on a full range of issues related to new and existing products and services throughout the entire product life-cycle such as those relating to privacy and security by design and default, software licensing, intellectual property protection, open source issues and data governance and retention
- Negotiate and review commercial and sales agreements, generally but with a focus on privacy and data protection risks in licensing, OEM arrangements, partnerships, contractor and vendor agreements
- Draft and/or revise internal and external-facing privacy policies and program documents
- Collaborate with Information Security and other stakeholders to handle incident response, including the review, coordination and management of potential privacy or data security incidents and related investigations, notifications and other resolution efforts
- Create and provide relevant training and ongoing awareness to internal clients and other stakeholders
- Serve on Appen Privacy Committee and provide legal and strategic guidance on privacy activities, including cross-functional initiatives
- Review marketing materials and other communications relating to the design and operation of Appen products and services, including to assist in the communication of data use and protection
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor Degree required, JD preferred and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- IAPP certification a plus
- 3+ years of combined, relevant experience in law firms, governmental agencies, and/or in-house legal departments advising on a full range of product development matters
- Familiarity with launching global products and advising on the legal and regulatory aspects of software product development in the technology space
- Fluency in translating legal advice into actionable guidance for innovative product and business teams
- Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage projects effectively
- Sound and practical business judgment, intellectual creativity, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and oral communication and negotiation skills
- Excellent leadership skills in a high-growth environment; a track record of driving for results.
- Responsive and service-oriented attitude
- Strong work ethic with an attention to detail
- Ability to maintain strong working relationships with company executives and external clients
- Integrity
- Current on CCPA and GDPR requirements and regulations
- Proven ability to successfully manage and deliver complex Information Technology and Business projects contracts
- Demonstrated negotiation and problem-solving skills
- Robust skills in Microsoft Office software, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe, DocuSign, Visio
- Ability to work with a variety of personality types and recognise issue urgency and need
- A professional approach and a willingness to work in a high performing team that values openness and transparency
- Experience dealing with redline review process and contract admin protocol.
- Experience working with in-house legal counsel on reviewing contract agreements when needed
- Strong interpersonal skills
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
We are currently looking for onsite Transcribers who would be interested to work in-office in Weybridge, Surrey.
Tasks: Listening to recorded speech in comfortable office environment and transcribing data in line with guidelines to be provided.
Requirements:
- Native level speaker of German language
- Available to work or travel to Weybridge, Surrey
- Experience in transcription would be highly advantageous, but is not essential as full training is provided
- Ability to type at least 60 words per minute or above
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Word
- Have an eye for detail and accuracy and able to research and verify information contained within the audio
- Able to pass required security clearance
- Able to start ASAP
Key Information:
- Work Hours Required: Min. 25 hours/ week
- Project Duration: 8-10 weeks
- Work Location: Weybridge, Surrey
- Hourly Rate: £15.00/ hour
- Daily travel costs may be considered for reimbursement. To be confirmed on application, depending on location and availability for work.
Application process: Upon completed registration, candidates who passed initial screening will be contacted to take the qualification test and pass.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1 million skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.
Position Summary
Associate Data Collection Specialist is responsible for executing data collection projects using Appen’s data collection systems, software and equipment. Associate Data Collection Specialist customises participant instructions based on project-specific needs, assigns tasks to participants, communicates with participants, monitors throughput, performs and manages quality assurance, schedules payments and supervises project-specific staff if required (e.g. recording supervisor, QA checker). Associate Data Collection Specialist works collaboratively with Data Collection Specialists, Solution Architects, Project Managers and other Specialists to meet project and client requirements.
Responsibilities
- Use Appen’s crowd management and data collection tools to execute data collection projects of different types
- Maintain project trackers, monitor key project metrics and provide project reports as required
- Analyse project performance and take appropriate actions (with guidance from Data Collection Specialist or Project Manager)
- Respond to participant queries
- Set up payments for data collection participants
- Deliver to project objectives within project scope, timeline and budget
- Follow quality management processes and take corrective measures as required
- Provide training to QA checkers and data collection participants as required
- Manage QA checker performance
- Communicate with all stakeholders in a timely, clear and concise manner
- Adapt to changing project needs and expectations
- Follow strict confidentiality protocol regulating the handling of project and participant details and other sensitive information
- Be a proactive team member, contributing solutions and helping others as necessary
Qualifications and Experience
- Computer literate and able to pick up new tools and systems quickly and with accuracy
- Agility and a service orientated approach
- Being able to work independently and proactively to resolve issues
- Demonstrated time management and organizational skills with attention to details
- Ability to thrive in metric-driven, fast-paced, high-growth environments
- Attention to detail
- Commitment to quality (being able to follow quality management processes)
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office tools - Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Proficiency in English, with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience with audio recording equipment and software desirable
- BS or BA degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience preferred
- 1-2 year of project and/or quality management experience in a metric-driven setting working in a production, operation, or call center environment is desired
- Bi-lingual in a second language is a bonus
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Project Information
- We are looking for an experienced Business Development Specialist who is highly motivated, self-starter able to identify and develop new business prospects from multiple sources including online business sites, marketing leads, prospect lists, and individual research.
- The Business Development Specialists that we are looking for is responsible for prospecting, qualifying and generating new sales leads to support the US Business Development Team.
Detailed Job Responsibilities
- Engage prospects online through social media outlets.
- Navigate corporate structures to ascertain who the buyers and decision maker are.
- Work in cooperation with the US Business Development team to schedule introductory calls.
- If an opportunity is identified for another sales area, takes appropriate action to forward the lead.
- Manage, track and report daily prospecting and lead generation activities
- Produce the required number and type of qualified leads on a monthly basis
- Understand and help to drive Corporate Sales and Revenue goals.
- Develop a sound understanding of company value proposition.
REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION: Bachelor’s Degree
REQUIRED YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: 2 to 5 years
REQUIREMENTS:
• A true sales hunter with sales experience.
• Confident, assertive and goal oriented.
• A dynamic personality with an innate ability to identify relevant prospect opportunities.
• Online internet research skills and working experience with online networking sites.
• Fluent in English, with strong written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to follow a scripted process and use of templates.
• Possess temperament to accept and apply coaching.
• Ability to learn the sales process and effectively apply it.
• Ability to overcome objections and deal effectively with rejection, while remaining personable.
SKILLS:
- Lead Generation Experience
- LinkedIn
- Salesforce
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
Due the China team is currently involve in multiple healthcare data annotation opportunities, we are in very urgent need for a Senior Project Manager with healthcare technical background.
Duties and Responsibilities
- In charge of AI data services delivery in healthcare domain
- Support sales team in securing new project opportunities in healthcare AI data services by performing requirement analysis and creating solutions
- Build and grow healthcare data annotation delivery teams, ensure revenue and profit margin targets are met
- Optimize project delivery frameworks and processes, improve project management and quality control mechanisms
Experience and Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or above, major in medical or pharmaceutical fields
- Excellent written and English skills
- 5 years of working experience
- 3 years of team management experience, managed teams of 100+ staff
- 3 years working experience in either healthcare industry or an industry providing services to healthcare clients
岗位名称：
- 高级项目经理—医疗行业
岗位职责：
- 负责医疗领域的AI数据服务业务的生产交付
- 配合销售团队对医疗AI领域新业务机会进行需求分析并制定解决方案
- 组建并管理医疗AI数据标注生产交付团队，确保完成收入指标并保证合理利润率
- 健全交付管理流程与制度，完善交付过程中的项目管理和质量控制机制
岗位要求：
- 本科或以上学历，医学或药学相关专业
- 英语读写及口语流利
- 5年以上工作经验
- 3年以上团队管理经验，管理过100人以上团队
- 有3年以上医疗行业或服务于医疗行业的从业经验
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
Position Summary:
We are looking for a Transcription Supervisor to work on a casual basis on our Chatswood office.The successful candidate will supervise a Mandarin Chinese transcription project in Simplified Chinese Script, working with a team of remote transcribers, monitoring their throughput and assisting with quality control.
Location: In-office, Chatswood, Sydney
Length: Casual
Working Hours/ Day: 25-35 hours per week
Working Days/ Week: 12 weeks
- Training: Translation, localization and adaptation of transcription guidelines and other project-specific training materials
- Recruitment: Screening and recruiting new transcribers depending on project needs and/or to increase resource availability
- Crowd management: Communication with transcribers and addressing all inquiries coming from them
- Project management: Tracking and meeting project deliverables such as expected transcription throughput hours and minimum quality standards defined for the project
- Quality management: Being in close contact with quality checkers to ensure their work reflects the company and project standards
Detailed Task:
Users will listen to several audio clips about 3-15 minutes long and are tasked to transcribe and annotate the entire audio. The candidate will be working with a team of remote transcribers, monitoring their throughput and assisting with quality control.
Requirements:
- Must be a native speaker of Mandarin Chinese and
- Able to read write fluently in Simplified Chinese script.
- Excellent working knowledge of English
- Efficiency and attention to detail
- Good computer and typing skills
- Must have intermediate skills in Microsoft Office (including Excel) and Google sheets
Preferred Skills:
- Project management experience
- Translation or other language work experience
- Knowledge of the local popular culture in the target language
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. With over 20 years of experience, expertise in more than 180 languages, and access to a global crowd of over 400,000, Appen partners with leading technology companies to enhance their machine learning-based products.
PROJECT INFORMATION:
The Project Manager will work closely with the Site General Manager on providing oversight and management of site projects, pilots and smaller Client Services Projects that does not require a day to day Team Manager.
DETAILED JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Project Management:
- Oversee the completion of key project milestones
- Develop Project plans to support a project or even program end-to-end
- Take responsibility for delivering required Project Milestones for assigned programs
- Analyze and evaluate reports to proactively identify and improve team results to improve client satisfaction
- Client Relationship Management:
- Become familiar with all aspects of the client requirements
- Actively establish and grow client relationships, as needed
- Adapt to changing client needs and expectations
- Team Management:
- Build and manage a pilot meets or exceeds quality, throughput and productivity tyargets during the early stages of a project
- Participate in pilot team selection and creation as needed
- Ensure pilot tea members have access to required tools, guidelines and other related materials to meet project requirements
- Prepare, improve and develop pilot processes based on team or client feedback
- Provide regular reporting on project status, as well as more in-depth analysis
- Facilitate team meetings
- Guideline & Training Support:
- Develop program guidelines and training material as well as annotate data for new or existing programs
- Participate in program improvements, initiatives, and committee work as assigned
- Support the training and mentoring of new and existing Appen staff, as assigned
- Reporting and Communication:
- Communicate service level expectations and directions project or pilot team members.
- Provide up-to-date information that helps Appen staff and project team members to anticipate and solve problems.
- Proactively provide on-the-spot positive and constructive feedback team members regarding metrics-driven performance issues
- Under manager guidance, communicate directly with client, using proper escalation procedures for both production-related questions and technical issues
- Communicate, with all stakeholders, in a timely, clear and concise manner
- Participate in regular team meetings with program staff
- Where necessary, complete additional tasks as assigned.
REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
- BS or BA degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience preferred
REQUIRED YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
- 3-5 years leading teams even in a remote capacity
- 3-5 years working with US, EU or Aus clients / team members (virtual or otherwise)
- 1-2 year of project management experience in a metric -driven setting working in a production, operation, or call center environment is desired
REQUIREMENTS:
- PMP or equivalent is an advantage but not required
SKILLS:
- Project Management
- Process Improvement
- Excellent English Communication – written and oral
- Organizational Agility
- Problem Solving and Critical thinking
- Adaptable to utilizing new technologies and tools
REQUIRED SOFTWARE/ CODES & STANDARDS:
- Office 365 or equivalent required
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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We're looking for an experienced linguist to lead a team of annotators and help process language data for conversational understanding technologies.
You are the right candidate if you know that language data is the underpinning of all current language technologies. You love practical language analysis as well as theoretical. You're quick to learn and implement new label sets with a consideration for the purpose of the data and are a native level speaker of US English and European French.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop CFG-style grammars for different languages and NLP task-oriented applications and/or define and implement higher level grammar architecture
- Annotate corpus of data with linguistic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, phonetic, phonological, and prosodic information
- Work closely with researchers and engineers by providing linguistic expertise
- Monitor data acquisition and curation
- Handle personnel issues
- Field questions
- Take the lead on communicating announcements, feedback etc.
- Facilitate offboarding (e.g. collection of IT equipment, badges etc.) if needed
Qualifications:
- Degree in Linguistics, Speech Science or related field
- Experience/interest in linguistics, especially syntax, semantics, and pragmatics
- Native speaker of US English and European French
- Collaborative and solution oriented attitude
- Ability to adapt to changing requirements, priorities, and revisions
- Strong attention to detail
- Communicates clearly verbally and via email
- Available fulltime (40 hrs weekly)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Advanced degree and/or industry experience
- Experience with ontologies and label sets
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Appen has an opportunity for a Vendor Management Specialist to join a dynamic, global team, supporting clients in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Applications are invited from candidates with experience in global supplier management.
Responsibilities (Must be commutable daily to our Sunnyvale, CA; Kirkland, WA; Detroit, MI or Sydney, AU offices)
- Prepare Request for Quotation/Proposal documents and negotiate pricing with Appen’s subcontractors across the globe.
- Manage and maintain Appen’s vendor database, including quotations used for pricing proposals
- Assess vendor suitability through review of quotations and in-depth due diligence calls in order to make recommendations for vendor selection
- Standardize all vendor-related documentation, such as subcontracts and requests for quotation
- Compare and evaluate offers from suppliers
- Negotiate contract terms of agreement and pricing
- Liaise with other internal departments as required to resolve vendor’s issues and questions, and manage vendor escalations during project execution
- Maintain positive relationships with key vendors to ensure product is high quality and delivered on time
- Support the Sales team on proposal preparation as required including coordination of external inputs where needed.
Experience & Skills
- Relevant BA/BS degree with 3+ years’ experience in vendor management, consulting or sourcing
- Good knowledge of vendor sourcing practices (researching, evaluating and liaising with vendors)
- Solid analytical skills, with the ability to create financial reports and conduct cost analyses
- Good analytical and negotiation skills and the capability to develop creative solutions
- Confident in communicating with stakeholders across the globe in a variety of cultural contexts and good relationship building skills
- Accountable and results-driven
- A team player who is willing to work flexible hours within a global team across different timezones Confident user of MS Office tools, especially Excel and Word
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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PROJECT INFORMATION:
Reports Creation specialist that will be shared resource for the different programs (in Cavite) and any reporting-related engagement under the Client Services vertical
DETAILED JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Design and architect effective and efficient reporting solutions, primarily in Power BI, that fulfil business operational reporting requirements
• Help define and build visual representations (charts) that provide intuitive indication of operational performance over time and identify opportunities to improve performance or recognize success.
• Address report/information requests, clearly communicating commitments, issues, completion dates and status with requestors and with management.
• Participates in the development and maintenance of data warehouse, subsequent reporting enhancements, including the creation of new reporting templates and analytical reports.
• Continually research and test the most current tools applicable to improve existing reporting processes and its possible uses for data management and reporting.
REQUIRED EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION:
Graduate of Business Administration, Mathematics, Statistics, Marketing, Industrial Engineering, Computer programming-related studies or any other related courses
REQUIRED YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
• 2-3 years’ experience in reports management and data analysis
REQUIREMENTS:
• Demonstrated high level of proficiency in Power BI reporting and dashboard creation
• Demonstrated high level of proficiency in MS office (advanced Excel macro-based applications, leading to creating & managing performance dashboards)
• Working knowledge/experience on SQL & Tableau (or similar)
• Proficiency and experience in Share-point is a plus
• Experienced in doing workforce scheduling, capacity planning is a plus
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills and close attention to detail.
• Good comprehension of technology and data management tools used in the process of collecting, storing, retrieving and analyzing data.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment is a must
SKILLS:
• Demonstrated high level of proficiency in Power BI reporting and dashboard creation
• Demonstrated high level of proficiency in MS office (advanced Excel macro-based applications, leading to creating & managing performance dashboards)
• Working knowledge/experience on SQL & Tableau (or similar)
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills and close attention to detail.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Dutch Linguist
We are seeking Dutch linguists for a project that will begin as soon as possible and run through the end of December 2019.
This project involves developing a style and grammar checker for Dutch word-processing using our client’s software. We have Dev (development) and QA (quality assurance) positions available.
For both positions, we are looking for native-level Dutch speakers with strong knowledge of Dutch morphology and syntax, and high proficiency in English.
The Dev positions additionally require strong computational skills, particularly familiarity with regexes (regular expressions), an aptitude for learning to use new software, and a commitment of 25-40 hours/week.
The QA positions are less computational, and require a commitment of approximately 15 hours per week.
Project Description
- Expansion of existing grammar & style checking tool
- Corpora-based research, specification development, rule implementation using client software, test set development, performance testing, bug reporting, bug fixing
Project Details
Location: Telecommute
Hours: 25-40 for Dev position and 15 for QA position
Project length: through the end of 2019
Number of positions: 2 for Dev and 2 for QA
Requirements:
- Native-level Dutch language skills
- High proficiency in English
- Strong computational skills for the Dev role
- Familiarity with regexes for the Dev role
- Degree in linguistics or a related field
- Strong knowledge of Dutch morphology and syntax
- Aptitude for learning new software