29.105, Jobs: Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Linguistics Project Manager, Lionbridge Tampere

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Subject: 29.105, Jobs: Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Linguistics Project Manager, Lionbridge Tampere

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:31:19
From: Elena Pirttisalo [elena.pirttisalo at lionbridge.com]
Subject: Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics: Linguistics Project Manager, Lionbridge Tampere, Finland

 
University or Organization: Lionbridge Tampere 
Department: Machine Intelligence team
Job Location: Tampere, Finland 
Web Address: http://www.lionbridge.com
Job Title: Linguistic Project Manager
Job Rank: Manager

Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; NLP


Description:

Lionbridge enables more than 800 world-leading brands to increase
international market share, speed adoption of products and effectively engage
their customers in local markets worldwide. 

Job Duties:
- Engage with customers to understand customer business issues and lead teams
to execute on defined solutions across  service offerings. 
- Help support as a key interface with clients at the stage of the sales
cycle, provide. thought  solutions , craft solutions and provide support and
feedback to Sales (e.g. pre or post-sale activities, initial quote, SOW.
pricing) to ensure that the client receives the service they require. 
- Work with site management to insure customer satisfaction and implement
continual process improvement, measurement/benchmarking, and automation across
of service deliveries.  

Responsibilities:
- Develop effective and creative customer solutions with moderate supervision.
- Develop and write project plans. 
- Create and manage the global project schedule, liaising with all production
team members to ensure viability and commitment. 
- Execution of large scale projects with medium to high complexity. The
projects will mostly, but not exclusively are related to Natural Language
Processing, Data curation and labelling, Software development, Speech
recognition and synthesis, artificial intelligence and cognitive systems. 
- Provide project training and technical guidance project team members. 
- Work with site and Lionbridge teams to deploy custom and configurable
solutions. 
- Drive project timelines and budget to completion and within estimated scope
and established production. 
- Budget and provide timely and accurate forecasts of our expected revenue
with appropriate highlighting of risk. 
- Develop and maintain a high level of knowledge of company as well as
industry products and solutions.  
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor to support business development,
internal projects/initiatives and organization of the team and processes.  

Qualifications/Skills:
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts; should have an interest in
Natural Language Processing. 
- Excellent project management and organizational skills. 
- Client relationship management experience. 
- Background in Linguistics or Computational Linguistics or other related area
with experience in machine learning, semantics, syntax, morphology or
lexicography. 
- Previous experience in NLP, speech processing and/or crowdsourcing is a
plus. 
- Previous experience in programming is a plus. 
- Experience in software development and scripting is a plus. 
- Ability to build financial models to demonstrate financial ROI. 
- Knowledge of key sales processes and tools. 
- Able to analyze new and changing scenarios and adapt the workflow to the new
requirements. 
- Thorough understanding of basic financial concepts Gross Margin, Budgets,
etc.). 
- Flexible, imaginative, positive thinking, multi-tasking, proactive and
solution-oriented. 
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural global environment
 
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without
regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity,
national origin, disability or protected veteran status.



Application Deadline: 18-Feb-2018 (Open until filled)
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://goo.gl/gprPZX 
Contact Information:
	Resource coordinator Elena Pirttisalo 
	Email: elena.pirttisalo at lionbridge.com 


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