Manager – Localization Specialist (LATAM)

Location: San Bruno, California, United States; on-site attendance five days per week is required.

Annual salary: $104,000–$202,000 for the San Bruno location. Performance-based bonuses and stock may also be available.

Company

hirify.global Marketplace supports international seller experiences through localized product, marketing, support, legal, and operational content.

What you will do

• Translate, edit, and review English content into accurate and culturally appropriate Latin American Spanish across Seller Center, marketing communications, Marketplace Learn, and other channels.
• Manage localization projects from intake and scoping through scheduling, translation, quality assurance, launch, and closeout.
• Coordinate Product, Engineering, Marketing, Legal, Operations, International Markets, and external vendors across multiple workstreams.
• Perform in-context linguistic quality assurance and distinguish linguistic defects from product or engineering issues.
• Maintain translation memories, glossaries, style guides, quality standards, project records, and review protocols.
• Improve localization workflows, documentation, automation, integrations, and operational reporting.

Requirements

• Native-level written and spoken Latin American Spanish proficiency, including ESMX and ESCL.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• Five or more years of experience in localization, translation, language operations, or content operations, including at least two years managing cross-functional projects or workstreams.
• Experience with CAT tools, translation management systems, automated localization workflows, software or UI localization, in-context quality assurance, terminology management, style guides, and translation memories.
• Strong project management, organization, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work on-site five days per week in San Bruno, California.

Nice to have

• Experience with Airtable, Crowdin, LILT, Jira, HubSpot, and Contentstack.
• Experience supporting e-commerce, marketplace, or seller-facing digital products in Latin America.
• Experience managing localization vendors, linguist performance, quality scorecards, capacity, and SLAs.
• Experience with machine translation, artificial intelligence, or large language models in localization workflows.
• Background in Spanish copywriting, UX writing, content editing, or transcreation.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• 401(k), stock purchase opportunities, and company-paid life insurance.
• Paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty, and voting leave.
• Short- and long-term disability coverage, company discounts, military leave pay, and adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement.
• Performance-based bonuses and potential stock compensation.
• hirify.global-paid education programs covering tuition, books, and fees for eligible full-time and part-time associates.