QC Team Lead – AI Data Annotation

Job Locations: Hyderabad and Bangalore
Work Mode: Work from Office (WFO)
Experience: 4–5 Years
Job Type: Full-time

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced QC Team Lead – AI Data Annotation to lead quality control activities for AI and Machine Learning data annotation projects. The ideal candidate will have 4–5 years of relevant experience in data annotation, quality control, data validation, or annotation operations, along with experience guiding team members and maintaining high-quality deliverables.

The candidate will be responsible for auditing annotated datasets, monitoring quality metrics, identifying errors, conducting root cause analysis, and ensuring compliance with project guidelines and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Control and Assurance

- Lead quality control activities for AI and Machine Learning data annotation projects.
- Review and audit annotated datasets to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with project guidelines.
- Conduct quality checks across text, image, audio, and video annotation tasks, depending on project requirements.
- Identify annotation errors, inconsistencies, and deviations from quality standards.
- Monitor accuracy, error rates, rework, and other quality KPIs.
- Ensure project quality benchmarks and service-level agreements (SLAs) are met.

Team Leadership and Management

- Guide and support QC analysts and data annotation team members.
- Allocate quality review tasks and monitor daily productivity.
- Provide feedback and corrective guidance to improve annotation accuracy.




- Conduct training and calibration sessions on project guidelines and quality standards.
- Resolve annotation disagreements and escalate critical quality issues when necessary.

Data Annotation and Validation

- Oversee quality reviews for text classification, named entity recognition (NER), sentiment analysis, image bounding boxes, object detection, audio transcription, and video object tracking.
- Ensure consistent application of project-specific annotation guidelines.
- Review complex cases and recommend clarifications for ambiguous instructions.
- Support annotation accuracy and consistency across teams.

Reporting and Process Improvement

- Prepare daily and weekly quality and productivity reports.
- Analyze error trends and perform root cause analysis.
- Recommend corrective and preventive actions to reduce errors and rework.
- Collaborate with project managers and operations teams to meet delivery and quality targets.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows and quality assurance processes.

Compliance and Data Security

- Ensure adherence to data privacy, confidentiality, and information security requirements.
- Ensure sensitive data is handled according to project policies.
- Escalate harmful or policy-violating content in accordance with project guidelines.

Required Skills and Qualifications





- Bachelor's degree in any discipline; Computer Science, IT, or a related field is preferred.
- 4–5 years of relevant experience in data annotation, quality control, data validation, or AI data operations.
- Prior experience leading a QC team or supervising quality review activities is strongly preferred.
- Strong understanding of data annotation workflows and quality assurance processes.
- Experience reviewing annotated datasets and identifying errors across text, image, audio, or video.
- Knowledge of quality metrics, sampling methods, error analysis, and root cause analysis.
- Proficiency in MS Excel or Google Sheets.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and team management skills.
- Ability to work from the office in Hyderabad or Bangalore and meet project deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with data annotation or labeling platforms.
- Familiarity with AI and Machine Learning data preparation workflows.
- Experience conducting quality audits, team calibration, and performance feedback sessions.
- Exposure to client quality requirements, SLAs, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Work Location

Hyderabad, Telangana / Bangalore, Karnataka

Work Arrangement: Full time, Work from Office (WFO)

How to Apply

Interested candidates can apply through Indeed with an updated resume highlighting their experience in data annotation quality control, team leadership, quality metrics, and process improvement or send their cv to [email protected]

Pay: From ₹25,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person

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