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
Current situation
- 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
Key Responsibilities
Build a Quality Assurance system (30%)
- First 2 weeks: Audit current assistants; evaluate work quality (accuracy, speed, compliance); decide who stays, who leaves; create quality criteria and checklists
- Ongoing: 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%)
- Hiring: Design the hiring funnel (screening → test task → interview); hire new assistants within first 1–2 months; maintain a candidate pipeline (no current churn, but may appear)
- Onboarding & training: 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%)
- Work with engineering team: identify which checks can be automated; create clear requirements and tasks for developers; test and launch automation tools; utilize AI and scripts for monitoring
- Automation examples: 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
- People 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