Localization Project Coordinator, Production (Contractor)

Lilt, Inc.; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Project Coordinator to join their dynamic Production Team. This role focuses on ensuring successful execution of projects within a global portfolio, working closely with project managers and coordinators across various time zones. You will utilize advanced tools and systems to manage tasks efficiently, while also providing essential support to maintain high performance against KPIs. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a leading AI solution for enterprise translations, making a significant impact in the localization industry. If you are passionate about project management and thrive in a collaborative environment, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in project coordination and management in a localization context.
• Strong communication skills to liaise with internal teams and linguists.

Responsibilities

• Ensure successful production execution across multiple accounts.
• Provide back-office support to enable timely production delivery.

Skills

Project Management

Communication

Data Entry

Organizational Skills

Multitasking

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

Jira

LILT Translation Editor

QA Tools

Front

Retool

Job description

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About Us

LILT is the leading AI solution for enterprise translations. Our stack made up of our Contextual AI Engine, Connector APIs, and Human Adaptive Feedback enables global organizations to adopt a true AI translation strategy, focusing on business outcomes instead of outputs. With LILT, innovative, category-defining organizations like Intel, ASICS, WalkMe, and Canva are using AI technology to deliver multilingual, digital customer experiences at scale.

While our core AI technology might share similarities with ChatGPT and Google Translate, it's what we do with it that makes LILT truly revolutionary. Our patented Contextual AI Engine goes beyond basic translations, understanding the nuance of our customer's content and target audience to deliver hyper-accurate, business-focused results. Our connector-first approach seamlessly integrates with our customer's existing workflows, and our human-adapted feedback loop ensures continuous improvement, making LILT a constantly evolving AI partner for your global ambitions.

This is a contract position based out of Argentina or India.

Authorization to work in Argentina or India is a precondition of employment.

The Production Team at LILT

LILT’s Production Team is a global workforce, operating across four continents. We are passionate about localization and making information accessible to all. The Team spans project management, program management, quality, and talent management, working with some of the world’s largest organizations.

Working in LILT’s Production Team you will have access to leading tools, collaborative teammates, and opportunities to make a real impact.

What You’ll Do

The Project Coordinator ensures successful production execution across a portfolio of accounts.

Under the supervision of a Project Manager or Senior Project Manager, the Project Coordinator provides back-office (non-customer facing) support in a specific timezone to enable 24/5 production delivery.

They will work with a team of production managers, primarily based in Europe, and a base of project coordinators who are located globally.

Key Responsibilities:

• Executes project management tasks as required by the Production Team.

• Utilizes a range of technical tools and systems to execute tasks, including Jira, LILT Translation Editor, QA tools, Front, and Retool.

• Provides the necessary status updates and handovers to their Project Managers as well as Project Coordinator peers.

• Maintain and exceed performance against KPIs.

Skills and Experience:

• Assigning linguists to projects based on predefined team lists and by applying automation.

• Setting and managing project deadlines according to customer SLAs.

• Tracking assignment status, including acceptance and rejection rates from linguists.

• Communicates well with local colleagues and internal production team members.

• Communication with linguists to confirm project status, any risks/issues impacting ability to deliver on time.

• Coordination of queries from linguists; logging queries in the appropriate format/platform, directing responses back to linguists within production timelines.

• Reassignment of projects to alternative linguists as needed to meet project deadlines or mitigate quality issues.

• Data entry and administration related to linguist performance, availability and payments.

• Sending and receiving translation quality feedback (revision reports or other format) to linguists.

• Checking status of QA checks in LILT and following up with linguists on non-completion / non-compliance.

• Delivering projects by the project deadlines.

• Ensures all system admin, including data entry, is accurate for their accounts.

• Has a clear understanding of all production workflows and processes related to their tasks and duties.

• Consistently follows correct protocols for their tasks and accounts.

• Escalates Production risks/blockers in the appropriate manner to their Production Manager or Lead as soon as they arise.

• Bachelor’s degree (Master's preferred).

• Proficient in English at a professional level.

• Past experience includes translation, project coordination/management, linguistic or other localization related activities.

• Solid organizational skills including meticulous attention to detail and multitasking skills.

• Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure.

Our Story

Our founders, Spence and John met at Google working on Google Translate. As researchers at Stanford and Berkeley, they both worked on language technology to make information accessible to everyone. They were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company and left to start a new company to address this need – LILT.

At its core, LILT has always been a machine learning company since its incorporation on March 6, 2015. At the time, machine translation didn’t meet the quality standard for enterprise translations, so LILT assembled a cutting-edge research team tasked with closing that gap. While meeting customer demand for translation services, LILT has prioritized investments in Large Language Models, believing that this foundation was imperative to the future of enterprise translation.

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