Project Manager

Appen is the global leader in data for the AI Lifecycle with more than 25 years’ experience in data sourcing, annotation, and model evaluation. Appen maintains the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform and boasts a global crowd of 1 million+ contributors worldwide, speaking 235+ languages. Our team is expanding!

Who Are You?

You are a culture ambassador, you love building relationships, and you are passionate about delivering the very best experience for hiring managers, candidates as well as your recruiting team members.  You will be successful if you develop strong working relationships with leaders at all levels, create the very best team member experience, deliver on expectations, and serve as a trusted advisor to the business.  You will do well in this role if you thrive in an environment where no two days are the same, you work well under pressure and you can effectively deal with ambiguity.  

The Project Manager is responsible for monitoring and driving contributor’s performance who perform tasks such as search, social media, eCommerce relevance ranking and content annotation. The Project Manager works collaboratively with Client Delivery to meet all client and project requirements. 

General Responsibilities: 

CrowdTeam Management: 

Build and manage a crowd team of proficient contributors to ensure they meet or exceeds quality, throughput, and productivity targets. 

Prepare and disseminate project materials based on contributor and/or client feedback to clarify guidelines. 

Communication: 

Communicate service level expectations and directions to all contributors.  Proactively provide guidance and feedback to contributors regarding metrics-driven performance issues.

 Participate in regular team meetings and communicate with all stakeholders in a timely, clear and concise manner. 

Client Relationship Management: 

Under manager guidance, communicate directly with client, using proper escalation procedures for both production-related questions and technical issues. 

Share trends and insights to help provide the client with the highest quality and quantity of data. 

Become familiar with all aspects of managing client relationships. Actively establish and grow client relationships, as assigned.

 Adapt to changing client needs and expectations.  

Guideline & Training Support: 

Develop program processes, guidelines and training material as well as annotate data for new or existing programs. 

Support the training and mentoring of new and existing Appen staff, as assigned.  

Project Management: 

Solicit and use input and feedback from client, Appen managers and contributors to help drive project/program efficiencies.  

Participate in program improvements, initiatives, and committee work as assigned. 

Analyzing projects, identifyingrisks and forming risk mitigation strategies. 

Complete all assigned tasks with accuracy using effective time management by setting priorities and consistently meeting deadlines. Where necessary, complete additional tasks as assigned.

Qualification Management:

 Participate in contributor assessments as needed. 

Ensure new contributors have access to required tools, guidelines and other related materials to meet project requirements. 

Creation of qualification and supplemental content, including self-study modules, clarification documents, practice sets, guideline walkthroughs, FAQs, guided examples, quizzes and knowledge checks. 

Communicate with diverse audiences to provide information and clarification regarding qualification programs, actions, policies, procedures and best practices. 

Supports stakeholders through performance consulting to qualify development and qualification requests. 

Analyze qualification needs and develop strategies to improve courses and documentation. 

Conducts analysis to identify needs and recommends appropriate solutions that distinguish between qualification, communication, and coaching and development opportunities. 

Productivity Management: 

Responsible for ensuring the Productivity, Rate Per Hour, and Production hour goals will be met on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to improve project profitability. 

Ensure data accuracy and timeliness in updating the productivity tracker. Report project deficiencies and organize resources to determine action plans to resolve issues. 

Report and escalate for support to the Program/Project Manager when there are forecasted delays in the delivery.

 Anticipate project/stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realizes they are required. 

Quality Management:

Execute day-to-day quality processes for the assigned projects/program. 

Analyze and evaluate quality trends and insights to proactively identify any quality issues and root causes. 

Develop and execute quality management plans.

 Drive quality improvements to help improve partner satisfaction. 

Take responsibility for delivering excellent Quality Metrics to meet the partner goals. 

Reporting Management Ensure data accuracy and timeliness of reports. 

Drive reporting efficiencies through process improvement and automation. 

Provide seamless payment experience to ICs through timely and accurate processing of invoices.

Maintain trackers and dashboards by consistently checking and cleaning data. 

Gather and analyze data to aid project teams in planning and making informed decisions.  

Requirements: 

Advanced to expert Excel skills required 

Experience in managing and prioritizing large volumes of email correspondence 

Experience with a Windows operating system and Office suite of products    

Proficient in English. Excellent oral and written communication skills  

Bi-lingual in a second language is a bonus 

Experienced in delivering exceptional customer service 

Excellent analytical skills including ability to proactively identify problems, gather information and set course of action 

Candidates must be amenable to work on a night shift schedule 

Qualifications:

BS or BA degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience preferred List out years of experience required 

Minimum 2-3years’ work experience in a metric -driven setting working in a production, operation, or call center environment is desired 

Project Management, Data Analytics/Management and/or Process Improvement is an advantage.

12 month contract

Appen is the global leader in data for the AI Lifecycle with more than 25 years’ experience in data sourcing, annotation, and model evaluation. Through our expertise, platform, and global crowd, we enable organizations to launch the world’s most innovative artificial intelligence products with speed and at scale. Appen maintains the industry’s most advanced AI-assisted data annotation platform and boasts a global crowd of more than 1 million contributors worldwide, speaking more than 235 languages. Our products and services make Appen a trusted partner to leaders in technology, automotive, finance, retail, healthcare, and government. Appen has customers and offices globally.