Economics Quality Assurance Lead (QAL)

Skills

About this role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as an Economics Quality Assurance Lead (QAL) to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across economics-focused AI training projects. You will review AI-generated economics content and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure that all contributors follow the expected quality standards.

Economics, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: Spot-check economics items, identify quality issues, provide ongoing feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
• Economics review: Evaluate AI-generated economics explanations, calculations, graphs, policy analyses, data interpretations, and step-by-step reasoning for accuracy and clarity.
• Trainer and QA communication: Update trainers and QAs on Discord about new item guidelines, project changes, workflow updates, quality expectations, and economics-specific review standards.
• Question handling: Respond to trainer/QA questions clearly and promptly, especially around economic models, assumptions, formulas, graphs, and causal claims.
• Trainer/QA activation management: DM contributors who are inactive or not working, encourage activation, track follow-ups, and flag availability issues when needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Economics, Applied Economics, Econometrics, Public Policy, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, or a closely related quantitative/social science field.
• Strong grasp of the English language to follow project guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear written feedback.
• 3+ years of experience in economics research, teaching, policy analysis, economic consulting, data analysis, econometrics, content review, or related analytical workflows.
• Strong understanding of microeconomics, macroeconomics, market structures, incentives, supply and demand, elasticity, externalities, monetary/fiscal policy, inflation, unemployment, trade, and growth.
• Ability to evaluate economics content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as incorrect assumptions, flawed causal reasoning, wrong formulas, misleading graphs, or unsupported policy claims.