About the Role
We are looking for a structured, strict, and technically-minded Head of Quality Assurance who will build and lead one of the most critical operational units in the company.
Scope of Responsibility
- Management of a team of 30+ remote assistants
- Quality control of 5,000+ job applications/month (scaling to 10,000+)
- Direct reporting to the CEO
Context & Challenges
- 30 assistants submit job applications on behalf of clients
- Quality is inconsistent—there is no systematic control
- Many manual review processes → we need automation
- No structured onboarding for new assistants
- No clear KPIs or performance-based motivation
What Must Be Built
- Audit the current team
- Hire additional assistants
- Build a full Quality Assurance system from scratch
- Automate quality checks in collaboration with engineering
- Implement onboarding, training, and control processes
Build a Quality Assurance System (30%)
- Audit current assistants
- Evaluate work quality (accuracy, speed, compliance)
- Decide who stays, who leaves
- Create quality criteria and checklists
- Implement regular quality audits and spot‑checks
- Establish KPIs (quality, speed, customer satisfaction)
- Track quality metrics per assistant
- Identify repeating errors and remove root causes
- Review difficult cases with the team
Hiring & Onboarding (25%)
- Design the hiring funnel (screening → test task → interview)
- Hire new assistants within the first 1–2 months
- Maintain a candidate pipeline (no current churn, but may appear)
- Build a structured onboarding program (1–2 weeks)
- Teach systems, standards, and workflows
- Certify assistants before they start working with clients
- Create training materials, videos, guides
Automation & Technology (20%)
- Identify which checks can be automated
- Create clear requirements and tasks for developers
- Test and launch automation tools
- Utilize AI and scripts for monitoring
- Automatic validation of application fields
- Duplicate application detection
- Performance dashboards and speed tracking
- Quality alert system
- Real‑time monitoring tools
Team Management (15%)
- Workload distribution among assistants
- KPI tracking and performance reviews
- Escalation handling and issue resolution
- Motivation and team culture development
- Selective 1:1s
- Coaching low performers
- Promote top performers into team leads
- Create internal career paths
Continuous Improvement (10%)
- Identify bottlenecks and improve processes
- Implement best practices and standardization
- Maintain operations documentation
- Work with client complaints, root cause elimination
Requirements
Must‑Have
- 2+ years managing operational teams
- Experience managing 20+ employees
- Built processes from scratch
- Preferably BPO / outsourcing / call center / EdTech
- Strong systems thinking and discipline
- SOPs, checklists, regulations, compliance
- Precision and attention to detail
- Ability to make difficult decisions (terminations, corrective action)
- Technical competency
- Understanding of automation & quality monitoring
- Ability to write clear requirements for developers
- Experience with CRM, monitoring dashboards, etc.
Nice‑to‑Have
- SQL basics, API logic, scripting
- Analytical approach
Metrics
- Quality %, speed, productivity, error rate
- KPI systems and reporting
- Data‑driven decision‑making
- Experience in hiring & onboarding
Strong Plus
- BPO / outsourcing experience (data entry, support, back office)
- Quality automation experience
- Technical degree (engineering / CS / math)
- Six Sigma / Lean / Kaizen knowledge
- Experience scaling teams from 10 → 50+
- QA / Quality Management certifications
- Experience with distributed remote teams