Chief Editor at Yandex Education

Yandex Education is looking for a Chief Editor — lead AI trainer for the Russian language.

Yandex Education develops and provides educational resources and programs, actively integrating AI into its products. The neural network explains topics, selects tasks, checks answers, helps identify gaps, and plans further preparation. To ensure this work is accurate and truly useful, its quality is verified by a labeling team.

We are seeking a Chief Editor — lead AI trainer for the Russian language.

You will be responsible for AI content for students in grades 5–11. This is not about lessons, but about subject matter expertise. Most of your tasks will involve quality control of AI content and the team's work. You need to be able to review a controversial task, make a decision, explain it to a labeler, and determine if it's an isolated issue or if the instructions need clarification for the entire team.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Reviewing AI content labeling for the Russian language and identifying systemic errors: you will check tasks, explanations, model responses, and feedback provided to the student. You will need to make decisions in contentious cases where a task appears normal but is actually ambiguous, doesn't test the declared skill, or allows for multiple correct answers. You will also need to identify recurring problems and forward them to the product and ML teams. You will refine evaluation criteria when real-world examples show that existing rules are insufficient
• Monitoring the alignment of materials with the school curriculum and exam formats: one of your tasks is to ensure that materials adequately prepare students for the OGE and Unified State Exam (EGE). This includes checking the task condition, correct answer, criteria, explanation, and alignment with the skill being tested. You will work with tasks in exam format, topic-based practice tasks, rule explanations, student error analysis, and checking handwritten work from photos
• Conducting calibrator sessions for labelers and resolving discrepancies: you will help the team apply evaluation criteria consistently by analyzing disagreements between labelers and reviewers, gathering complex and edge cases, and transforming them into clear rules and examples for the instructions
• Team management: you will be responsible for workload distribution, ensuring performer competencies match assigned tasks, monitoring labeling quality and speed, and working on its improvement
• Expertise and review: you will examine materials from two perspectives: the correctness of the Russian language and its effectiveness in addressing the child's specific learning objective. You will make decisions, explain them to labelers, and influence the overall product quality

• Experience as a methodologist, teacher, or editor of educational content
• Excellent knowledge of the Russian language and the 5–11 grade school curriculum
• Understanding of the OGE and EGE formats for the Russian language
• Experience in data labeling, labeling review, or quality control
• Ability to identify ambiguity in tasks and wording
• Willingness to make decisions in contentious cases and provide justifications
• Ability to explain decisions to labelers clearly and without conflict
• Skill in identifying systemic problems and translating them into rules and instructions
• Attention to detail while maintaining a broad perspective
• Readiness to work with a large volume of content and meet deadlines

Remote Vacancy.

• Health: comprehensive medical insurance starts from the first month at Yandex. It includes dental care, annual check-ups, emergency medical assistance abroad, treatment for critical illnesses (including oncology), and accident insurance. It also covers psychotherapy (in-office or online), laser eye correction after one year of employment, maternity care and childbirth after two years of employment, and insurance for relatives on an 80/20 system (the company covers 80% of the VHI cost for children and spouses, you cover the remaining 20%)
• Growth and Development: Yandex provides everything for continuous development and learning: an internal educational platform, mentorship, and programs for junior and experienced managers. It also covers participation in industry conferences and offers a 50% discount on foreign language learning. Furthermore, Yandex has internal projects where employees share expertise, discuss complex topics, and analyze their project cases
• Sports: all major Yandex offices have gyms with all necessary equipment: exercise machines, sports gear, showers, and lockers. You can train independently or with a corporate trainer. Additionally, there are free online workouts via FITMOST, discounts at fitness clubs, swimming pools, yoga studios, climbing gyms, and other venues. Yandex has a sports club and numerous sports teams with their own leaders, chats, and training programs. Employees regularly participate in races, triathlons, obstacle course races, football, and other competitions
• Flexible schedule: no fixed start or end times for the workday – work at a time that suits you and your team
• Housing loans: preferential rates for purchasing housing and improving living conditions, depending on tenure, position, and review results. Available for employees working in Russian Yandex offices
• Discounts on services: hundreds of services are available on the internal portal. You can also get increased cashback and additional discounts when paying with a Yandex salary card
• Children's educational projects: special educational projects from Yandex services for mini-Yandex employees of different ages, both offline and online
• Plus subscription for all Yandex employees