Offer summary

Qualifications:

Minimum 5 years' experience in translation and review of content., Degree in linguistics, translation, or equivalent experience., Proficient in marketing, UI, website localization, and online help., Excellent communication skills in English and native fluency in Hebrew..

Key responsibilities:

Act as a backup Language Lead, handling review responsibilities when needed.

Maintain overall quality under a 97% fail rate and analyze deliverables for improvement.

Support linguists in understanding corrections and during the arbitration process.

Conduct training sessions and organize regular calls with reviewers to ensure alignment.

Job description

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

We are looking for a skilled Hebrew linguist to act as a Language Lead Backup to our main Language Lead on a key account. The role involves stepping in to handle review responsibilities whenever the main Hebrew lead is out of office (OoO) or when there's a need to share the workload.

This includes performing full linguistic review and quality assurance tasks, ensuring all content meets the expected standards and client-specific guidelines. In such instances, you would act as the primary reviewer, taking over the review scope of the main lead.

The ideal candidate should be available to work within European (CET) business hours (9:00–17:00) to align with client delivery times.

MAIN DUTIES

Act as intermediary between the client (and third party reviewers) and Welocalize linguists.

Responsible for maintaining overall quality under the 97% fail rate.

Carry out daily follow up of all LQE results, passed and failed.

Gather all LQE changes and share with all linguists in the account.

Analyze deliverables by linguists, determine where the issues are and determine and implement actions for improvement.

Support teams in the review process as/where needed in order to maintain the fail rate below 97%.

Support linguists in understanding corrections, clarify with the client where needed.

Support linguists in the arbitration process.

Support linguists in any questions they might have during production and escalate to client/Welocalize as needed.

Identify products, contents that might be a challenge as well as linguists that might be underperforming and make recommendations to reallocate products, contents, etc.

If workload issues are identified, highlight them and provide solutions to be discussed with Welocalize Language Services team.

Collect root cause analysis, corrective and preventive action plans as needed and put improvement plans together accordingly.

Put training materials together and conduct training sessions with linguists.

Organize regular calls with reviewers/LS to discuss corrections, requirements, clarify any misunderstandings/unclear corrections or requirements, etc. Document these calls and follow up with linguists to make sure everybody is aligned.

Support Welocalize in the identification and evaluation of potential new candidates.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Minimum 5 years' experience translating and reviewing content in the specified subject matter.

Proficient in all areas of expertise: marketing, UI, website localization, online help.

Well-versed in various translation & terminology tools.

Excellent communications skills in English (spoken and written).

Native fluency in the target language.

Degree in linguistics, translation or equivalent experience.

Able to follow instructions, such as character restrictions etc.

Able to communicate effectively the rationale behind their translation skills.

Able to both translate and review.

Able to do machine translation post-editing.