French Marketing Linguist
Location
España | Spain
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.
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.
OVERVIEW
The Linguist, performs quality control tasks and on-demand translation tasks, and takes on linguistic lead functions on assigned accounts/projects; coordinates the activities of a group of translators (internal and/or freelancers) for assigned accounts/projects, trains and develops 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/account team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Perform entertainment, marketing, PR and other consumer-oriented translations and reviews in the client-owned translation tool
- Performing quality control tasks on assigned projects or accounts (EN > FR)
- Preparing, managing and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date as required by the account or project
- Managing project-related queries
- Ensuring good interaction among team members and resolving questions on terminology and language matters
- Improve based on the corrections made by the internal and the client reviewers
- Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required
- Participating in the development of new and improved working processes
- Achieving the productivity KPIs set by the French Language Team Manager
- Participate in the error arbitration process
- Master or learn the tools associated with translation work
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS - University degree in Translation/Applied Languages or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 3+ years of experience in translation/localization
- Native fluency in French. Fluent in English, both written and spoken
- Thorough understanding of the localization process.
- Good user experience of standard software, such as Windows and Office applications.
- Good user experience of standard CAT tools, e.g. XTM, SDL Studio, and issue tracking and query management tools, e.g. JIRA
- Ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly.
- Excellent knowledge of terminology used in two or more subject matters.
- Ability to give clear, concise and constructive feedback.
- 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, willingness and experience in communicating positively with customers at various levels
Other Skills - Ability to work with tight deadlines.
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability and willingness to train/teach others and pass on knowledge.
- Ability to work within a remote team.
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