24.2045, Jobs: English; General Ling: Manager, Google

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LINGUIST List: Vol-24-2045. Tue May 14 2013. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 24.2045, Jobs: English; General Ling: Manager, Google

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Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:55:11
From: Ara Kim [DataOpsMan at gmail.com]
Subject: English; General Linguistics: Manager, Google, California, USA

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 University or Organization: Google 
Department: Speech
Job Location: California, USA 
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics 

Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

As a Linguistic Project Manager and a native-level speaker of US English, you
will oversee and manage all work related to achieving high data quality for
speech projects in your own language.

You will be based in an office location in Mountain View, CA, managing a team
of data evaluators and working on a number of projects towards speech
research: ASR, TTS, and NLP.

This includes:
- Training, managing and overseeing the work of your team
- Creating verbalisation rules, such as expanding URLs, email addresses,
numbers
- Creating annotation conventions
- Evaluating data quality
- Providing expertise on pronunciation and phonotactics
- Working with QA tools according to given guidelines and using in-house tools

Job Requirements:
- Native-level speaker of US English (with good command of the standard
dialect)
- Must have attended elementary school in the country where the language is
spoken
- Keen ear for phonetic nuances and attention to detail; knowledge of the
language’s phonology
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an interest in
current speech, mobile and online technology
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good organizational skills
- Previous project management and people management experience
- Previous experience with speech/NLP-related projects a plus
- Advanced degree in Linguistics preferred; experience with Computational
Linguistics a plus (also a plus: proficiency with HTML, XML, and some programming language;
previous experience working in a Linux environment)

Project duration: 9-12 months. This is a contract position working though a
staffing agency and we cannot offer visa sponsorship or relocation package.

For immediate consideration, please email your CV and cover letter in English
(PDF format preferred) with "Speech Linguistic Project Manager [US English]"
in the subject line.



Application Deadline:  (Open until filled)
	  
Email Address for Applications: DataOpsMan at gmail.com 
Contact Information:
	Ara Kim 
	Email: DataOpsMan at gmail.com



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