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Customer Service (Call Center) Expert

SME Careers Contract Posted 1 month ago US, CA

Role details

Skills the posting asks for

  • Issue Resolution
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Customer Service
  • Escalation Management
  • AI Training
  • Voice Support
  • English
  • Complaint Handling
  • Call Center

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Customer Service Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support the creation of a custom dataset of natural, human-enacted customer service conversations used to train and improve speech-to-speech AI agents. You will participate in realistic customer service scenarios, applying your professional experience in client communication, issue resolution, support workflows, and customer relationship management to ensure conversations accurately reflect real-world interactions. You will demonstrate natural and professional communication, active listening, problem-solving, empathy, and appropriate issue-resolution techniques while following project-specific scenarios, instructions, and quality guidelines. Your contributions will help AI systems learn to handle customer interactions more naturally, accurately, and effectively.

This role is with SME Careers, a fast-growing AI Data Services company and subsidiary of SuperAnnotate, delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs.

Your profile

  • Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Business Administration, Communications, Marketing, Management, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
  • 2+ years of professional Customer Service (call center) experience, with demonstrated expertise in client communication, issue resolution, support workflows, and customer relationship management.
  • 1+ year of experience in AI training, such as data annotation, AI evaluation, model training, response evaluation, or similar AI-related work.
  • Strong knowledge of end-to-end customer support workflows, including issue identification, troubleshooting, escalation, follow-up, and resolution.
  • Excellent spoken English C1+ (US only), with clear and fluent verbal communication.
  • Hands-on experience managing customer inquiries, complaints, service requests, and escalations across a range of customer scenarios.
  • Ability to adapt communication style, tone, and approach based on the customer’s needs, situation, and level of concern.
  • Reliable, self-directed, and able to deliver consistent quality in an hourly, remote contractor environment.

Key responsibilities

  • Develop AI Training Content: Create natural, human-enacted customer service conversations across realistic support scenarios.
  • Optimize AI Performance: Evaluate and rank AI responses to enhance the model's accuracy, fluency, and contextual relevance.
  • Ensure Model Integrity: Test AI models for potential inaccuracies or biases, validating their reliability across use cases.

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  1. The link opens this role on SME Careers. Sign up and apply from there.
  2. Create an SME Careers account, then complete the application: a CV as a PDF or your education and work history, your languages and your country. The link opens the application with this role already selected.
  3. Take the AI interview for the role: a recorded video interview of about 15 minutes, in English for most roles, best on a desktop computer.
  4. If you pass, SME's team reviews your profile and may invite you to a short call. If screening succeeds you sign a contract through Deel, verify your identity and link Discord, then wait for a project invitation.
  5. Remote, but this posting limits it to Canada and United States.
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