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 quality for 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]

About Centific

Centific is a global digital technology services company with solutions across various industries. Led by a people-first, intelligence-driven approach, Centific enables experiences that help brands thrive in a sustainable and meaningful way, working to create long-term value and loyal customers for our clients – now and in the future. With clarity of vision, technological expertise, and operational excellence, Centific is the partner of choice for those who want to run smarter - and those who want to change the race.

Our diverse team of over 3,800 people works to deliver on the promise of technology and human-centricity every day. Are you ready to start solving today’s industry-specific challenges with tomorrow’s cognitive technology? Lets talk.

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