Data Annotator and Translator, Japanese

Data Annotator and Translator, Japanese (hourly employment via Workforce Logiq)

The position is fully remote (candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship is not available. OPT for a year is acceptable.) and part-time: 20 hours a week at a minimum, maybe more by mutual agreement, up to 40 hours a week. Partially flex-time: many assignments can be done outside of our business hours.

Overview

Data annotation entails categorizing, tagging, labeling, and evaluating textual information. This role is a blend of data annotation and translation.

Below are typical tasks you would do in this role:

• Grading the quality of algorithmic responses to user queries
• Tagging salient information in user-entered text
• Identifying mentions of common software titles and other named entities in support tickets in IT and other enterprise domains
• Categorizing support tickets by user intent using a complex multi-dimensional taxonomy
• Evaluating the performance of an AI chatbot
• Giving human feedback to MT (machine translation) algorithms
• Evaluating and commenting on the accuracy of language detection machine learning algorithms
• Search relevance evaluation
• Intent categorization using a complex, taxonomy of intents
• And, of course, translation (bi-directional)!

Expert fluency in English and Japanese is required. Appreciation for language nuances borne out of bi-directional written translation experience and/or academic study is necessary for this job. We are especially interested in how you approach the level of formality in the source and the target language, as well as how attuned you are to issues surrounding the language register in translating instructions for users.

Some attributes of successful candidates are:

• Cultural awareness
• Passion for the study of languages with all its applications
• Attention to detail coupled with the ability to see the big picture
• Familiarity with the IT domain and its terminology in both English and German
• Reliable performance on repetitive tasks (we like to think of our tasks as “non-boring and repetitive”)
• An analytical mindset
• The ability to form and apply mental models consistently
• Accuracy at speed
• Motivation to meet recurrent deadlines on rolling tasks
• Ability to explain your thought process and decision making
• Willingness to put yourself in the shoes of others and empathetic understanding of the needs of users
• Proactive self-starter capable of focused independent work
• Adept at remote collaboration (Slack, ZOOM, Google suite)
• Excited to learn and improve
• Curious and creative