Economics QA Lead for Remote AI Training Projects
Listing checked September 4, 2026 · pay as published by SME Careers
Overview
As an Economics QA Lead, you guide quality across economics-focused AI training initiatives delivered remotely. You will review AI-generated economics content, policy analyses, and data interpretations to ensure accuracy and clarity against project rubrics. You’ll craft precise written feedback and coordinate with a dispersed team of analysts, reviewers, and QAs through collaborative channels. Documentation, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials support scalable QA processes across projects.
What You'll Do10
- 1Quality monitoring across economics items, identifying quality issues, and delivering targeted feedback with escalation for recurring problems.
- 2Evaluate AI-generated economics explanations, calculations, graphs, and policy analyses for accuracy and clear reasoning against rubrics.
- 3Keep trainers and QAs aligned by sharing updates on new guidelines and workflow changes via project channels such as Discord.
- 4Respond to questions about economic models, assumptions, formulas, graphs, data interpretation, and rubric interpretation with clarity and speed.
- 5Activate and re-engage contributors who are inactive, track follow-ups, and surface availability gaps to maintain steady progress.
- 6Develop and maintain economics project documentation, including style guides, trackers, FAQs, quality notes, and onboarding resources.
- 7Coordinate onboarding calls to explain expectations, workflows, rubrics, quality standards, and economics-specific review requirements.
- 8Ensure consistent application of economics-review guidelines and adapt training as projects evolve.
- 9Flag overconfident, biased, or weak economic claims to maintain high-quality outputs.
- 10Identify recurring quality gaps and propose scalable QA process improvements for economics AI training projects.
Requirements10
- 1Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in economics, econometrics, public policy, finance, statistics, mathematics, or a closely related quantitative field.
- 2Strong command of English to follow guidelines and provide clear written feedback.
- 33+ years in economics research, policy analysis, economic consulting, data analysis, econometrics, content review, or related analytical workflows.
- 4Solid understanding of microeconomics, macroeconomics, market structures, elasticity, and policy topics, plus basic econometric reasoning.
- 5Ability to evaluate economics content against rubrics and spot incorrect assumptions, flawed causal reasoning, or misleading data representations.
- 6Familiarity with regression analysis, causal inference, economic modeling, and tools such as Excel, R, Python, Stata, or public datasets; academic economics writing is a plus.
- 7Experience leading or supporting remote teams of analysts, reviewers, educators, annotators, or QAs is highly preferred.
- 8Comfort working in fast-moving remote environments using Discord, Google Sheets/Docs, trackers, dashboards, and project management systems.
- 9Highly detail-oriented with the ability to maintain style guides, FAQs, trackers, onboarding materials, and calibration tasks.
- 10Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, economics QA, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.
Who Should Apply
Candidates with a master’s or PhD in economics or related fields and at least 3 years of relevant work fit well. They should thrive in a remote, fast-moving setting and communicate complex economics concepts clearly. The ideal person has designed rubrics, led QA processes, or evaluated AI outputs in economics contexts. This role may be less suitable for those lacking deep economics knowledge or experience coordinating distributed teams. Strong attention to detail and a proactive stance on process improvement are key signals of fit.
Salary Insight
Pay: $90/hr. This hourly rate reflects mid to senior-level economics QA leadership on remote contract work.
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