Senior Localization Specialist (Italian)

Location: London, England, United Kingdom. Hybrid role requiring two days per week in the Central London (Soho) office. Candidates must have the existing right to work in the UK.

Salary: £49,000–£60,000 base pay per year, excluding bonus and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a marketplace platform connecting customers with Taskers for home services such as furniture assembly, handyman work, and moving assistance.

What you will do

• Manage global localization workflows in Smartling across international markets, with dedicated oversight of Italian content.
• Coordinate translation agencies, contractors, and internal stakeholders across departments and time zones.
• Translate, adapt, proofread, edit, and transcreate marketing, product, engineering, support, and partnership content.
• Develop and maintain glossaries, style guides, linguistic resources, and multilingual guidelines.
• Perform quality assurance checks and comprehensive localization audits across the full user journey.
• Test AI-driven workflows and lead cross-functional initiatives to improve localization efficiency and customer experience.

Requirements

• Italian localization expertise is required.
• At least five years of hands-on experience in localization, translation, linguistics, transcreation, content creation, QA, and cultural adaptation.
• Experience with CAT tools, machine translation, and AI-driven localization workflows.
• Strong project management, communication, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Understanding of the needs and nuances of marketing, product, engineering, customer support, and partnership content.
• Existing right to work in the UK and availability for a hybrid schedule in London.

Nice to have

• Experience writing original copy and contributing creatively to content development.
• Curiosity about technology and the ability to identify and solve complex workflow and content challenges.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, pragmatic, fast-paced, inclusive, and values-driven environment.
• Flexible hybrid work with regular in-person connection.
• Generous flexible time off and two company-wide closure weeks.
• Product, wellness, productivity, and education stipends.
• IKEA discounts, reproductive health support, and benefits that vary by country of employment.