Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment - Brazil

Appen is hiring a Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment - Brazil for a remote role open to applicants in Brazil. Level rates it ; you can apply on Appen.

Level's read on this job

Uses AI ●●○○ is how Level rates this role: an ordinary role that requires AI tools.
The posting lists this role as remote.
Tools and skills the posting cites include fine tuning, AI data labeling and computer vision.
Level classifies it as a lead role.
Level lists 18 other open roles at Appen.

AI in this role

Lead a global sourcing hub focused on finding specialized talent for complex AI projects using data and automation tools.

fine-tuningai-data-labelingcomputer-visionspeechsourcingtalent-acquisitionleadershipstakeholder-managementdata-analysisautomation

About the Role

As a Strategic Sourcing Lead, you’ll lead a new global sourcing hub focused on finding the right contributors for complex AI projects that require specialized or hard-to-reach talent across a wide range of domains, from translation and localization to legal, medical, scientific, and technical fields.

This is a strategic, hands-on role within Fulfillment. You’ll define how the hub operates, develop the team, and partner with Recruitment and Delivery to build sourcing strategies ranging from complex searches to high-volume scaling. The team will work in a data-informed and AI-enabled environment, using technology to enhance research, outreach, analysis, and sourcing efficiency.

Your Impact

Design and execute creative sourcing strategies for specialized, hard-to-reach, and high-volume needs.
Partner with Recruitment and Delivery to assess requirements, sourcing feasibility, and project needs.
Build relationships with production stakeholders and communicate risks, timelines, and expectations.
Use sourcing and conversion data to identify bottlenecks, test approaches, and improve funnel performance.
Embed AI and automation into sourcing workflows to improve research, outreach, analysis, efficiency, and scalability.

What You Bring

5+ years of experience in sourcing, recruitment, talent acquisition, or a related field.
Experience leading or mentoring sourcing teams in a fast-paced environment.
Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills across teams.
Strong analytical skills and the ability to use data to guide sourcing decisions.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Nice to Haves

Experience sourcing for AI, data, or crowdsourcing projects.
Experience sourcing linguists, translators, or other language profiles across markets.
Experience working with global or distributed teams across time zones.
Flexibility to work regular U.S. hours or provide U.S. overlap when working in a different time zone.

Why You'll Love Working Here

At Appen, we foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. We value curiosity, accountability, and a commitment to delivering the highest quality AI solutions for frontier models.

You'll work on complex challenges that shape the future of AI across industries and geographies, alongside talented people in a culture that values humility over ego. You'll have the flexibility to deliver in a way that works for you and your team, supported by tools, resources, and development opportunities to continue to build your capability over time.

About Appen

Appen has been a leader in AI training data for over 30 years. We specialise in human generated data to train, fine tune, and evaluate models across generative AI, large language models, computer vision, and speech recognition. Our AI assisted data annotation platform and global crowd of more than 1 million contributors in over 200 countries support model pre training, supervised fine tuning, evaluation and benchmarking, safety and red teaming, and multilingual global expansion.

How we rate this

Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment - Brazil at Appen rates 45 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Uses AI (AI Level 2 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Uses AI. An ordinary role that requires AI tools.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Strategic Sourcing Lead – Fulfillment - Brazil is an open job at Appen.
Level rates this role AI Level 2 of 4: Uses AI.
The role is based in Remote, BR and is marked remote.
The job was posted on October 8, 2026.
Seniority: lead.
Applications are handled by Appen. Apply on Appen

Prepare for this job

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Fine-tuningAI Data LabelingComputer visionSpeechSourcingTalent AcquisitionLeadershipStakeholder Management

Questions you could be asked

Walk me through fine-tuning a model: what data did you use, and how did you check the result?
How do you keep labeling instructions consistent across a large annotation team?
Walk me through a computer vision problem you solved, from raw data to a deployed model.
What have you built with speech recognition or text-to-speech, and where did it break?
Tell me about a project where sourcing was part of your work. What did you do?

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List these exact terms on your resume: Fine-tuning, AI Data Labeling, Computer vision, Speech, and Sourcing. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
Put the AI tool in a bullet point about what you did, not just in a skills list. This role treats it as a required part of the job.

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