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Linguistic Project Manager Jobs in United States at Ascendion
Title: Linguistic Project Manager
Company: Ascendion
Location: United States
About Ascendion
Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.
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About the Role:
Hiring: Technical Program Manager – Multilingual Speech Data & Annotation Programs
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Ascendion is seeking an experiencedTechnical Program Managerto support a leading AI/cloud client developing next-generation multilingual speech recognition technologies. This role is ideal for someone with expertise inlinguistics, speech data annotation, AI/ML data operations, and technical program management.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end multilingual speech data annotation, transcription, and evaluation programs.
- Design annotation workflows, quality metrics, and evaluation pipelines.
- Create localization and transcription guidelines across multiple languages.
- Recruit, onboard, and manage multilingual linguist annotators.
- Partner with research, engineering, product, and client stakeholders to deliver high-quality speech datasets.
- Manage timelines, risks, budgets, and multiple concurrent workstreams.
- Review speech quality analyses, including SNR, Voice Activity Detection (VAD), and acoustic quality outputs.
- Drive continuous improvements in annotation quality and operational processes.
Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics(PhD preferred).
- Experience managing large-scale multilingual language data or speech annotation programs.
- Strong knowledge of ASR, speech transcription, localization, NLP, or AI data annotation.
- Experience managing annotators across multiple languages and regions.
- Hands-on Python (Pandas/NumPy) for language data processing.
- Excellent stakeholder management, technical writing, and program management skills.
Preferred Skills
- Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR)
- Code Switching & Inverse Text Normalization (ITN)
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD) & Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR)
- AWS S3, SageMaker Ground Truth, or similar annotation platforms
- Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA), Cohen's Kappa, Krippendorff's Alpha
- Low-resource languages, dialects, and speech data collection
Location: 100% Remote
Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $80,000 – $90,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [12-15 days of paid vacation time] [6-8 weeks of paid parental leave after a year of service] [9 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System] [Tuition Reimbursement Program]
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