Account Manager - Speech & AI Technologies

**About Side** -------------- Side is a global video game development and services provider, offering technical and creative solutions to many of the largest developers and studios around the world. Founded in 2009 and drawing on 30+ years' experience from our parent company in Japan, Side has since grown to become a global force with 15+ studios in over a dozen countries across North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. Our industry-leading services include game development, art production, audio production, quality assurance, localization, localization QA, player support, community management, and datasets. We're seeking an Account Manager who will lead high-profile relationships within the speech and AI ecosystem. This role combines technical fluency, partnership management, legal and commercial awareness. The successful candidate will act as a trusted interface between client technical teams and internal delivery teams, ensuring alignment, solution clarity, and long-term partnership stability. This is not a pure sales role. It requires strong technical credibility and a customer-first mindset. **What You’ll Do** ------------------ * Serve as the primary relationship lead for a major enterprise technology partner within the speech and AI domain. * Engage directly with client stakeholders across Product, Engineering, ML, Data Science, and Speech teams. * Translate complex technical requirements into clear internal delivery plans and execution roadmaps. * Ensure alignment between client expectations and operational capabilities across data, engineering, and production teams. * Demonstrate domain fluency across TTS, ASR, transcription workflows, data collection, annotation, and model training support. * Contribute technical insight during solution design discussions, including conversations around model accuracy, constraints, scaling, and evaluation methodologies. * Protect and stabilize existing revenue streams while supporting responsible expansion aligned with the client’s technical roadmap. * Participate in RFP/RFI responses and commercial discussions with awareness of scope, margin, and delivery risk. * Partner closely with delivery, data operations, engineering, and product teams to ensure seamless transition from scoping to execution. * Identify risks early, escalate appropriately, and maintain transparency across stakeholders. * Build long-term trust through responsiveness, clarity, and professionalism in complex enterprise environments. **Requirements** * 5+ years of experience within speech technology, AI/ML services, data annotation, data collection, or language technologies. * Experience working with large technology platforms or enterprise AI customers. * Technical fluency in deep learning-based TTS and ASR systems, voice technologies, NLP fundamentals, and model training pipelines. * Strong understanding of annotation workflows, dataset management, and model evaluation concepts. * Comfort engaging directly with engineering, ML, and product stakeholders. * Strong communication skills with the ability to bridge technical and operational teams. * Commercial awareness and structured account management discipline within enterprise environments. **Benefits** * Competitive base salary  * Flexible working arrangements * annual leave plus public holidays * Private healthcare options * Life assurance and income protection coverage * Professional development support and learning opportunities * International exposure across global teams and clients * A collaborative, people-first culture within a growing global organization #LI-CD1