Medical Linguistics Lead

Summary

Join Docplanner as a Medical Linguistic Specialist Lead and lead a team of specialists, ensuring high-quality, accurate datasets for machine learning and NLP initiatives. You will oversee task prioritization, quality assurance, and team alignment. This role requires strong leadership, linguistic, and medical expertise, along with project management skills. Ideal candidates have experience managing linguistic or data annotation teams and thrive in collaborative environments. You will contribute to improving the healthcare experience by providing accurate and consistent datasets. The role offers a competitive salary, benefits, and a supportive team environment.

Requirements

• Be proficient in English and at least one of the following: Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, or Polish
• Demonstrated experience leading and mentoring teams, ideally in linguistic or annotation projects
• A degree or strong background in linguistics, computational linguistics, or a related field
• Familiarity with medical terminology and prior experience in the healthcare domain
• Strong organizational skills with experience managing deadlines, coordinating tasks, and resolving challenges
• Proficiency in annotation tools, creating taxonomies, and text pattern development for NLP
• Exceptional ability to review, assess, and ensure data quality and consistency
• Strong interpersonal abilities to coordinate with technical teams and communicate effectively

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the MLS team to ensure accurate, consistent, and timely delivery of linguistically and medically oriented datasets
• Establish and maintain annotation guidelines and processes, ensuring clarity and alignment across projects
• Coordinate and prioritize tasks to meet project milestones while addressing blockers and challenges
• Review and verify the quality of annotated datasets, providing feedback and coaching to improve performance
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including NLP experts and machine learning engineers, to translate project needs into actionable tasks
• Drive process improvements by identifying inefficiencies in workflows and implementing solutions to increase productivity and accuracy
• Develop training materials and oversee the onboarding process for new team members

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in AI, machine learning, or data preparation projects
• Knowledge of multiple languages or dialects beyond the primary working language
• Exposure to medical coding systems (e.g., ICD, CPT) or electronic health records (EHR)
• Experience leading linguistic teams
• Experience in process optimization or workflow automation

Benefits

• Competitive salary appropriate to your experience
• Private health plan
• Share options plan after 6 months working with us
• Free English classes
• Hybrid working model
• Unlimited access to the Ifeel emotional well-being tool
• Free birthday to spend the day with your loved ones!
• Participate in our successful referral programme and get rewarded for bringing in exceptional talent like yours