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End-to-End Ownership: Define program objectives, timelines, and deliverables for multiple data labeling projects simultaneously.
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Workflow Design: Create scalable SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and guidelines. You will decide when to use a "Consensus" model (multiple labelers per item) versus a "Single-Pass" model based on cost/quality trade-offs.
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Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify bottlenecks (e.g., ambiguity in guidelines, tool downtime) and implement "Risk Mitigation Strategies" before they impact model training schedules.
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Crowd/Team Oversight: Recruit, train, and manage a distributed team of annotators. Monitor "Throughput" (items/hour) and "Efficiency" to ensure productivity targets are met.
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Vendor Relations: Act as the primary interface for external data vendors. Negotiate timelines, track budget utilization, and hold vendors accountable to accuracy SLAs (e.g., 98% quality on Gold Sets).
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Performance Coaching: Implement data-driven feedback loops. If an annotator's quality drops, you will analyze their errors and provide targeted retraining materials.
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Gold Set Management: Maintain a "Gold Set" (master answer key) to blindly test annotators.
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Metric Analysis: Track and report on key quality metrics: Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA), Accuracy, and Precision/Recall of the human labels.
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Root Cause Analysis: When model performance dips, you will investigate the training data to determine if the issue stems from "Labeler Bias," "Guideline Drift," or "Edge Case Ambiguity."
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Platform Operations: Help set up the UI/UX and configurations for the internal platforms used for labeling and annotation.
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Reporting: Generate weekly executive dashboards using Excel/Google Sheets (Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP) to visualize "Spend vs. Output" and "Quality Trends" for stakeholders.