Offer summary

Qualifications:

University degree in Translation/Applied Languages with 3+ years of experience as a translator or reviewer., Fluent in French and English, both written and spoken, at a native level., Experience in translating for mobile apps, IT consumer products, and marketing., Excellent knowledge of terminology in IT consumer products, social media, and entertainment..

Key responsabilities:

Perform quality control, transcreation, and translation tasks on assigned projects from English to French.

Manage project-related queries and maintain language materials like glossaries and style guides.

Interact with clients on linguistic matters and develop new freelancers according to project needs.

Participate in the development of improved working processes and achieve goals set by the French Team Lead.

Job description

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

The Linguist performs quality control tasks, transcreation tasks and on-demand translation tasks on assigned accounts/projects; coordinates the activities of a group of translators (internal and/or freelancers) and ensures that the work is performed at a satisfactorily high standard within the specified deadlines and quality level; ensures that the Language Process is being followed by the project team.

MAIN DUTIES

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:

Performing quality control tasks on assigned projects (EN > FR)

Performing transcreation/translation/post-editing tasks (EN > FR)

Performing other linguistic tasks (EN > FR)

Managing project-related queries

Preparing, managing and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date

Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required

Developing and training new and existing freelancers according to the accounts’ and Welocalize’s needs

Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required

Ensuring good interaction among team members and resolving questions on terminology and language matters

Participating in the development of new and improved working processes

Achieving the goals set by the French Team Lead

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED SKILLS

University degree in Translation/Applied Languages and related experience as translator and/or reviewer of 3+ years

Fluent in French (native level), both written and spoken, fluent in English, both written and spoken

Experienced as a translator in : Mobile Apps, Search Engines, IT Consumer products, Entertainment, Marketing, Software UI, Websites

Excellent feel for language (source/target)

Excellent knowledge of terminology in the following subject matters: IT consumer products, social media, entertainment

Thorough understanding of the localization process.

Excellent user experience of standard software, such as Windows and Office applications, and standard CAT tools (e.g. SDL Studio) and issue tracking and query management tools, e.g. JIRA

Ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly.

Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to work with tight deadlines.

Ability to give clear, concise and constructive feedback. Excellent problem-solving skills.

Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, translators.

Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.

Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Ability and willingness to train/teach others and pass on knowledge.

Ability, willingness and experience in communicating positively with customers at various levels

Ability to work in a virtual team.

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