Language Quality Lead

We are looking for a Language Quality Lead (LQL) to join our team!

The Language Quality Lead position plays a key leadership role in the localization efforts of the team. This role is responsible for “owning the language”. In that sense, we mean that a strong LQL is not only an expert linguist/translator lead, but also displays excellent communication skills, technical and quality management knowledge, and attention to detail.

The LQL must be able to work both independently and with a team, arbitrate and score translations, manage translation memories and term bases, provide coaching to external language providers to improve the quality of their language, and properly justify their language choices.

Essential qualifications:

- 5+ years of experience in the localization field, ideally with more than half the years as a LQL role

- Native speaker of target language with fluency in both oral and written English

- Outstanding localization skills from US English into the target language

- Mark-up language skills, experience working with UI strings and e-learning content

- Working knowledge of the language’s translation style and overall quality by means of

initial preparation on Language Assets (Glossary / Term base research / Translation Memory / Style Guides), ensuring that linguists and translators across various networks are aligned

-Working knowledge of quality control, LQA quality assurance mechanisms and concepts, language quality models, and arbitrating quality scorecards

- Working knowledge of Post-translation Quality Control, by means of maintenance of language assets, and assessment/review of translators’ ongoing quality

- Bachelor’s degree in the target language, Translation, Communications, Linguistics, or related field (Master's degree preferred)

- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

- Working knowledge of the media industry, including subtitling and DTP

- Familiarity with training programs, particularly regarding cloud-computing

- Experience working as part of a global team and flexibility with time zones

Preferred qualifications:

- 2.5+ years of experience as a Language Lead

- Project management and coordination experience

- Affinity for technology

- Machine translation post-editing (MTPE) experience

- Experience working in an agile content development environment

- Memberships or leadership roles in language industry organizations

Language:

- English (US) to Hebrew (Israel).

This is an independent contract, part-time, and remote role for 15-20 hours weekly. The working schedule is flexible and will depend on your availability.

If interested, please send your updated resume to [email protected].