Urdu QA Lead (Remote)

About the role

We are looking for an Urdu Quality Assurance Lead to manage the quality and consistency of Urdu AI training data. This remote, hourly contract position will oversee trainer performance, review AI‑generated content, and ensure that all deliverables meet strict linguistic and cultural standards.

Key responsibilities

• Review AI‑generated Urdu content and trainer/QA work against detailed project rubrics.
• Provide precise written feedback in English and Urdu to improve accuracy, fluency, grammar, spelling, tone, cultural appropriateness, and formatting.
• Identify recurring quality issues, communicate updates to trainers and QAs, and maintain documentation of guidelines.
• Support onboarding of new contributors and reactivate inconsistent participants.
• Monitor right‑to‑left formatting, Nastaliq script conventions, and regional variations (Pakistan Urdu, India Urdu).

Required profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Urdu, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, Journalism, English, Education, Quality Assurance or a related field.
• Native or near‑native proficiency in Urdu with strong reading and writing skills.
• Excellent command of English for following guidelines and providing feedback.
• 3+ years of professional experience in Urdu writing, editing, translation, localization, content QA, AI training, annotation or similar workflows.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers or QAs is strongly preferred.

Required skills

• Proficiency with remote collaboration tools such as Discord and Google Docs.
• Ability to evaluate content against detailed rubrics and detect issues such as mistranslation, unnatural tone, incorrect register, script/formatting problems, hallucinated claims, ambiguity, or inconsistent terminology.