Localization Specialist - Japanese

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Location: Remote in Czechia or Prague office

Position Overview:

The Localization team’s mission at Alteryx is to deliver products and supporting documentation that look and sound local to users worldwide. As the Japanese Localization Specialist, you will join the Product Localization team at Alteryx to support our rapidly growing global presence.

As the Japanese Localization Specialist on the Product Localization team, you will ensure that the customer and linguistic experience that we offer through our localized products is sound and well-received in the language at hand. In this role, you will work closely with product teams to learn about new features and validate the experience from an international user’s perspective. You will play a critical role in ensuring that Japanese-speaking customers are advocated for in the product development org. You will also own the Japanese linguistic style, tone, and messaging that we display to our users in our localized SKU of products. Through partnership with other language stakeholders in the company and industry research, you will develop these linguistic components and ensure that as we grow as a platform, we maintain a consistent linguistic style across our products.

What you'll do:

• Confirm that the localization of the UI and user experience for new features is seamless and consistent with what our users would expect.
• Work with product management and attend agile rituals such as planning meetings, demos, and feature kick-offs to integrate yourself into the product/dev processes.
• Participate in early product alphas to start learning about new products/features that are planned to be localized and help drive participation in product betas where localization testing/customer validation would be appropriate.
• Localize Help content that enables our Japanese-speaking customers to use and configure our products.
• Proactively engage with other Japanese-speaking Alteryx stakeholders to allow for opportunities to get in-language product feedback in preparation for localized product launches.
• Build upon linguistic and cultural standards/guidelines, and maintain quality, tone, and voice expectations across the whole localized user product experience.
• Maintain and have language assets and terminology accessible to other language stakeholders at Alteryx to ensure consistency and alignment with the teams that work with our various regions.
• Monitor the Japanese linguistic quality output using our internal string manager, quality metrics, and provide feedback and context to the LSP translation teams.
• Provide product trainings to our LSP translation teams to improve the translation quality as we grow our localized products.

Required Skills:

• You are a native speaker of Japanese and have business proficiency in English.
• You have a bachelor's degree or 3 years of professional experience in a field related to linguistics, technology, or similar fields.
• You have 2-5 years of professional experience, ideally in localization or similar fields.
• You bring knowledge of your language’s culture and nuances.
• You are able to multitask and rise to the occasion to help other team members.
• You take the initiative and enjoy working cross-functionally.
• You are a team player and a team builder. You thrive in multicultural and diverse environments.
• You are an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Valued Skills:

• You have experience with analytic software or have used Alteryx products in a previous role.
• You have experience working with Jira or similar project management products to communicate with various audiences.
• You are savvy about the analytic environment, competitive landscape, and trends in your respective region.
• You have worked with localization technology and have helped to improve localization processes at a previous company. Extra points if you are familiar with both cloud and on-premise products.

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Find yourself checking a lot of these boxes but doubting whether you should apply? At Alteryx, we support a growth mindset for our associates through all stages of their careers. If you meet some of the requirements and you share our values, we encourage you to apply. As part of our ongoing commitment to a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace, we’re invested in building teams with a wide variety of backgrounds, identities, and experiences.