Project Coordinator

Cairo, Egypt

Job Description

LXT is an emerging leader in AI training data to power intelligent technology for global organizations. In partnership with an international network of contributors, LXT collects and annotates data across multiple modalities with the speed, scale and agility required by the enterprise. Our global expertise spans over 115 countries and coverage for more than 750 language locales. Founded in 2010, LXT is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with presence in the United States, UK, Egypt, Turkey and Australia. The company serves customers in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Learn more at lxt.ai.
We are hiring Project Coordinators who apply their linguistic knowledge, technical skills and attention to detail to manage projects to quality expectations, timelines, and budget. The project coordinators apply their communication skills to manage stakeholder relationships and teams of language specialists around the world.
Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage projects’ quality, time and budget to ensure effective project execution and delivery.
  • Coordinate with Operations Excellence to train a virtual team of contractors to create, evaluate or annotate data in multiple languages.
  • Help prepare guidelines, training materials and tools, aligned to client specifications.
  • Oversee the work of contractors, including task assignment, scheduling and monitoring.
  • Ensure close and regular communication with all internal project stakeholders.
  • Document and manage language resources arising from projects “data-base”.
  • Report to the responsible Project Manager when something seems off with project execution or when it appears to may lead to unplanned events/unexpected results or risks.
  • Responsible for ensuring goals are met in areas including hiring, training & onboarding for the execution environment.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

  • Outstanding communication and follow up skills is a must.
  • Experience in a language-related field, such as linguistics, computational linguistics, translation and localization, or equivalent.
  • Good technical and data management skills.
  • Good problem-solving and analytical skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in an environment characterized by constant change, and a fast, deadline-driven culture.
  • Project management experience, preferably in a language, linguistics, or software-related field.
  • Bachelor degree in Operations or Management.
  • Some experience with regular expressions, bash scripting, or programming skills is considered a big plus.
  • Native or near-native proficiency in at least one language other than English.
  • Exposure to a range of Natural Language Processing technologies is a plus.

Additional information:
LXT is an equal opportunity employer and ensures that no applicant is subject to less favorable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, color, nationality, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic, responsibilities for dependents, physical or mental disability. Any hiring decision is made on the basis of skills, qualifications, and experiences. We measure our success as a business, not only by delivering great products and services and continually increasing our assets under administration and market share but also by how we positively impact people, society, and the planet.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD1422848
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
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  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Cairo, Egypt
  • Education
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