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The ending -in is the regular marker for a female person in many German job titles and roles.
- Teamleiter = team leader (male, or grammatically masculine / generic)
- Teamleiterin = female team leader
So Teamleiterin tells you the team leader is a woman.
Grammar-wise, Teamleiterin is a feminine noun, which affects the article (die, eine, etc.) and adjective endings.
Because Teamleiterin is grammatically feminine, and in the nominative singular (the subject form), the definite article for feminine nouns is die.
Very short overview for singular nouns:
- der = masculine nominative (e.g. der Lehrer)
- die = feminine nominative (e.g. die Lehrerin)
- das = neuter nominative (e.g. das Kind)
So as the subject, Teamleiterin must take die:
Die Teamleiterin leitet …