About Appen:
Appen is a global market leader in data for the AI Lifecycle. With over 30 years of experience in data sourcing, data annotation, and model evaluation by humans, we enable organizations to launch the world's most innovative artificial intelligence systems.
Our expertise includes a global crowd of more than 1 million skilled contractors who speak over 500 languages, in over 200 countries, as well as our advanced AI data platform. Our products and services give leaders in technology, automotive, financial services, retail, healthcare, and governments the confidence to launch world-class AI products. Founded in 1996, Appen has customers and offices globally.
Key Responsibilities:
Project lifecycle management:
- Lead the entire process of data collection projects, including requirements & cost assessment, solution design, implementation to acceptance and delivery, and develop clear project plans.
- Ensure that projects are completed on time, with quality, and within budget.
Requirements Interaction and Solution Design:
- Deeply understand customer needs, break down data collection objectives.
- Design suitable collection solutions (such as resource types, hardware and software collaboration, on-site processes, etc.), and output solution documents (including technology selection, architecture diagrams, feasibility analysis, etc.).
Team Management and Collaboration:
- Lead the data acquisition team in carrying out daily work
- Clarify the responsibilities and goals of members, organize technical training (such as the use of data collection tools)
- Coordinate cross-departmental resources (such as the technical department, legal department, and business department)
- Solve collaboration problems in project progress.
Risk and Quality Control:
- Identify project risks (such as data quality issues, resource execution issues, and data compliance issues) and develop contingency plans in advance.
- Establish a data collection quality verification mechanism (such as data integrity, accuracy, and timeliness checks), regular output quality reports
- Optimize the collection process.
Compliance and Security Assurance:
- Work with the legal department to ensure that the data collection process complies with national laws and regulations (such as the Data Security Law and the Personal Information Protection Law) and industry standards, and avoid risks such as data leakage and illegal collection
- Take the lead in signing compliance agreements with data source providers to clarify the scope of data use and responsibilities.
Project Review and Optimization:
- After project delivery, organize a review to summarize lessons learned (such as process bottlenecks and technical obstacles), and output a review report
- Promote the optimization of data collection tools and automated processes to improve teamwork efficiency and project delivery capabilities.
Requirements:
- Completed a bachelor's degree or above.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in project management, preferreddata collection/standardization project management, including at least 1 year of team management experience (leading a team of 3 or more to complete a full project).
- At least B2 English level and proficiency in Chinese (especially in Speaking) is required.
- Strong project management skills.
- Preferred Proficient in common data collection types in different industries, such as LLM, image, audio, text, multimodal etc.
- Results-oriented with the goal of improving project delivery quality and efficiency, proactively advance tasks and do not shirk responsibility.
- Learning ability to quickly master new data collection technologies and industry knowledge.
- Able to cope with the pressure of multiple projects running in parallel, urgent needs (such as temporarily adding data collection dimensions), and technical bottlenecks, and maintain work efficiency.
