Job Description
About Smartcat
Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises.
We’re on the frontier of an entirely new category: Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high-performing hybrid workforces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren’t generic copilots. They’re fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy—ready to get to work from day one.
Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you’re launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale.
Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world—instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with 130% year-over-year growth, we’re scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us.
Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time.
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN OUR TEAM
You will join Smartcat’s GTM org as a Senior Marketplace Delivery Team Manager, owning the full marketplace onboarding experience and ensuring successful marketplace adoption across the entire customer lifecycle—from pre-sales to steady-state operations. Marketplace Delivery Managers are responsible for guiding customers through Smartcat’s marketplace model and technologies, reducing operational risks, and enabling efficient, scalable multilingual content delivery.
In this role, you will help automate internal processes and tracking systems to guarantee the success of the team’s operations. Our main team objective is to safeguard our service-level commitments for quality and on-time marketplace delivery by overseeing supplier selection for specific translation workflows, monitoring project execution, and intervening when necessary to. Your work ensures customers achieve reliable outcomes and gain confidence in Smartcat’s marketplace.
MISSION
This is an outcome-driven role that demands operational ownership, precise execution, and the ability to manage multiple complex workflows simultaneously.
You will:
Deliver full onboarding and continuous improvement coverage for new and existing customers using the Smartcat Marketplace
Leverage Smartcat’s automation technologies to reach 90% workflow automation across supported accounts
Ensure 100% SLA compliance for quality and on-time delivery, stepping in when needed
Build and maintain trusted vendor teams, enabling them with Smartcat AI tools and best practices
OUTCOMES
Customer Onboarding & Workflow Setup
Partner with GTM Account teams to scope requirements and align on goals, quality expectations, formats, and workflows
Deliver marketplace training, ensuring customers understand how to create, manage, and assign projects efficiently
Configure and automate workflow steps including freelancer assignment, vendor management, and workspace settings
Support payment workflows, including facilitating payments to freelancers, and ensuring compliance with payment guidelines.
Supplier & Resource Management
Monitor freelancer capacity, performance, and specialization to match project requirements
Utilize Smartcat AI for supplier selection, supplementing with manual sourcing for rare language pairs or niche domains
Support manual quote creation when applicable
Build and maintain pools of trusted linguists and teams
Quality Assurance & Delivery Oversight
Set up and manage language assets (TMs, glossaries, style guides) and QA automation tools
Coordinate sample reviews and independent quality checks
Monitor delivery progress, mitigate risks, and intervene to protect SLAs
Lead issue resolution and escalation management when necessary
Support for Proof-of-Concept (POC) Projects
Help define success criteria, timelines, and workflows during POCs
Ensure smooth execution and help demonstrate value to accelerate customer decisions
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Product Feedback
Work closely with CX, Product, Engineering, and Account teams to deliver customer outcomes
Submit actionable bug reports, workflow insights, and technical feedback
Identify recurring customer needs and influence product roadmap priorities
Serve as an internal and external advocate for marketplace best practices
Marketplace Promotion & Sales Collaboration
Act as a key advocate of the Smartcat Marketplace, promoting its value, scalability, and efficiency in customer engagements and internal discussions
Collaborate closely with Sales and Account teams to design competitive, scalable, and customer-centric marketplace-based business proposals
Contribute to solution design during pre-sales by validating marketplace feasibility, risks, and delivery models
Support Sales in positioning the marketplace as the optimal delivery approach, providing operational insights and best practices
Help refine commercial and delivery assumptions (pricing, resourcing, workflows) to ensure proposals are realistic, competitive, and aligned with customer needs
Provide feedback to GTM teams on recurring customer objections, opportunities, and marketplace adoption barriers.
WHAT YOU’VE ACCOMPLISHED:
- 5+ years of experience in project management, vendor management, supply chain management, or operations
- Experience with marketplace environments or large vendor/freelancer pools is a strong plus
- Certification in project management, such as PMP (Project Management Professional), is a plus.
- Proven ability to scope projects, allocate resources, manage risk, and track delivery performance.
- While not as technically focused as a developer or engineer, a Marketplace Delivery Manager should have a good understanding of technical concepts related to translation technologies being able to leverage AI tools to streamline current processes.
- Proven ability to deliver support, training, and adoption initiatives
- Entrepreneurial mindset with curiosity, problem-solving ability, and collaborative approach
- Excellent communication skills with experience presenting to different audiences
- High attention to detail and strong customer empathy.
- Ability to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
- Integrity and full commitment.
- Comfortable working with remote, multicultural teams.
- Openness to constructive feedback and the opinions and ideas of others.
- Fluent English (additional languages desirable)
- Experience working with large pools of freelancers/vendors or marketplace environments.
Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far
- Fully remote team We are a global team of 200+ enthusiastic people spread across 30+ countries. We have been fully remote since 2020, with some locations populated with more Smartcaters than others, such as Boston, Belgrade, Lisbon, Tbilisi and Yerevan.
- Be part of an AI Native Organization We are highly innovative, using AI across all areas of the organization to accelerate decision-making and free people to focus on strategy and high-impact work. We embrace new ideas and encourage all Smartcaters, regardless of level or department, to manage their own AI Agents. At Smartcat you’ll shape how AI transforms the workplace and play an integral role in ensuring Smartcat remains a leader in AI innovation.
- Innovating a $100 Billion industry Smartcat is reshaping the $100B multilingual content industry with an AI-powered platform that makes it easy for companies to create, translate, and localize global content at scale. Our platform enables enterprise teams to move away from slow, traditional outsourcing methods, and achieve fast, high-quality results, at a fraction of the cost.
- Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product-market fit and high-performing team, and plan to accelerate from here.
- Smartcat Culture : Where Diversity Meets High Performance At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual’s unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and engagement. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.
