Image Collection Specialist (Ukraine)

About the Role Are you detail-oriented, tech-savvy, and interested in helping train the next generation of Artificial Intelligence? RWS is seeking Image Collection Specialists based in Ukraine to participate in a large-scale data collection project. In this role, you will collect and submit high-quality, real-world images of everyday items, documents, and environmental signs using our proprietary mobile tool. Your contributions will directly improve OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technologies and multimodal AI models. Job Type: Freelance Location: Ukraine (work from home) Work Schedule: Part-time - 10+ hours per week. Flexible - work whenever you want. Start Date: Immediately Duration: TBC Rate: 6 USD per hour What You’ll Do Image Collection: Locate and capture real-world, original photos across 14 predefined everyday and enterprise categories. Category Coverage: Your collection will span diverse categories, including: Commercial/Daily Life: Price tags, small menus, product labels, receipts, and warning signs (on packaging, food, etc.). Environmental: Signs, billboards, and bus stop boards. Business/Technical: Documents (reports, investor materials), forms, memos & notes, notices, graphs (pie charts, bar charts), and workflows/figures. Metadata/Annotation (Potential): Future project phases may require adding basic captions or performing simple OCR transcriptions of the captured text. What we’re looking for: Must be currently living in Ukraine . Native-level written and spoken fluency in Ukrainian . Access to a smartphone with a high-quality camera and a stable internet connection. Ability to strictly follow detailed photography and data entry guidelines Important Banking Eligibility: Due to current international banking restrictions, all candidates based in sanctioned regions must have a bank account registered in a country outside sanctioned regions to receive international payments. Vendor Type When applying, please select the option that best describes your working status. Are you a Freelancer or Private Individual? A Freelancer is someone who has a business license and may have a VAT number or EIN for tax purposes. A VAT (Value Added Tax) number is a unique identifier assigned to registered businesses in many countries; an EIN (Employer Identification Number) is a similar identifier used in the US. A Private Individual does not have a business license. If you aren’t sure, you are probably a private individual. RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. #LI-PR1505