Localization Project Manager, Production (Contractor)

About LILT

AI is changing how the world communicates — and LILT is leading that transformation.

We're on a mission to make the world's information accessible to everyone, regardless of the language they speak. We use cutting-edge AI, machine translation, and human-in-the-loop expertise to translate content faster, more accurately, and more cost-effectively without compromising on brand, voice, or quality.

At LILT, we empower our teammates with leading tools, global collaboration, and growth opportunities to do their best work. Our company virtues—Work together, win together; Find a way or make one; Quicker than they expect; Quality is Job 1—guide everything we do. We are trusted by Intel Corporation, Canva, the United States Department of Defense, the United States Air Force, ASICS, and hundreds of global Enterprises. Backed by Sequoia, Intel Capital, and Redpoint, we’re building a category-defining company in a $50B+ global translation market being redefined by AI.

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.

Where You’ll Work

This is a contract position based out of India.

Authorization to work in India is a precondition of employment.

What You’ll Do

The Project Manager, Production ensures successful production execution across a portfolio of accounts. This role is a fundamental component of the production life cycle, ensuring projects are delivered on-time, on budget and to accepted quality standards. The Project Manager, Production will have customer facing production duties as well as internal responsibility to delegate project coordination and administrative work to teams of Production Coordinators.  

Key Responsibilities:

• Able to complete project management tasks autonomously

• Responsible for maintaining resources, core teams and pipeline to support project management work

• Responsiveness to internal and external comms within pre-defined SLAs

• Risk analysis to identify risks, potential issues, plan to and mitigate them

• Able to define and delegate admin work to PCs Interns

• Able to take responsibility for end to end project deliverables in accordance with SLAs

• Effectively balances and manages priorities across a variety of task types and customers

• Establishes deadlines /ensures deadlines are feasible and completes tasks by said deadlines

• Escalates issues or problems to manager in an effective manner, along with proposed solutions

• Asks pertinent questions to ensure full comprehension of the task in hand; Strictly follows Production SOPs and best practices. Responsible for CM, Quality and OTD KPIs.

• Manage the end to end project management workflow 

• Ensure all projects are delivered on time as per customer SLA 

• Manage quality at project level - including Review, Verification, QA, LQE

• Responds quickly and efficiently to internal and external stakeholders

• Ensure all system admin, including data entry, is accurate

• Process and approves invoicing and payments

• Perform file analysis and engages with Solutions team for support on file types

• Creates and monitors linguistic assets (TM, Style Guides, reference material)

• Demonstrates a deep understanding of all production workflows and processes related to their accounts

• Utilize systems and tools released by Production Enablement 

• Train supporting resources on key production processes and methodology 

• Develop and maintain process documentation related to their task load and the tasks delegated to other resources.

• Consistently follow correct protocols for tasks and accounts.

• Monitor and enforce adherence to correct production procedures

• Provides insight to Strategist into revenue forecasts based on production volume

• Manage quality complaints and feedback received from stakeholders

• Raise Customer Support tickets for 100% of production blockers (Jira)

• Identifies resource requirements for production work

• Performs self-sourcing in our existing vendor database and enters sourcing requests when new vendors are needed

• Completes ongoing risk assessment and mitigation for all production areas.

• Manage linguist communication for all projects 

Skills and Experience:

• A Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent; Master’s degree preferred

• 2+ years of professional experience in a field similar or related to Localization Project Management

• Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills

• 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. While together at Google, they were amazed to learn that Google Translate wasn’t used for enterprise products and services inside the company.The quality just wasn’t there. So they set out to build something better. LILT was born.

LILT has been a machine learning company since its founding in 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, human-in-the-loop systems, and now agentic AI.

With AI innovation accelerating and enterprise demand growing, the next phase of LILT’s journey is just beginning.

Our Tech

What sets our platform apart:

• Brand-aware AI that learns your voice, tone, and terminology to ensure every translation is accurate and consistent

• Agentic AI workflows that automate the entire translation process from content ingestion to quality review to publishing

• 100+ native integrations with systems like Adobe Experience Manager, Webflow, Salesforce, GitHub, and Google Drive to simplify content translation

• Human-in-the-loop reviews via our global network of professional linguists, for high-impact content that requires expert review

LILT in the News

• Featured in The Software Report’s Top 100 Software Companies!

• LILT makes it onto the Inc. 5000 List.

• LILT’s continues to be an intellectual powerhouse, holding numerous patents that help power the most efficient and sophisticated AI and language models in the industry.

• Check out all our news on our website.

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Compensation

• $5.00 – $10.00 per hour

Starting pay is determined by various factors, including but not limited to: relevant experience, skill set, qualifications, and other business and organizational needs. Please note that compensation ranges may differ for candidates in other locations.