Portuguese (Europe) Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

Location: Remote, worldwide; Lisbon or Porto, Portugal

Salary: $27–$33 per hour

Company

Global language services provider delivering translation, localization, adaptation, interpretation, and multilingual content transformation across more than 250 languages.

What you will do

• Review, localize, fact-check, translate, and adapt football and other sports-related content.
• Follow writing style guides, localization guidelines, and target-market requirements.
• Research local content, product, terminology, and localization trends.
• Provide feedback on written content and support quality-control activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or at least two years of experience in linguistics, sports journalism, copywriting, or copy-editing.
• Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football.
• Experience translating and localizing multimedia content, including machine-translation evaluation.
• Native-level European Portuguese with excellent grammar, writing, proofreading, and editing skills.
• Excellent English and practical knowledge of computers, mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets.
• A licensed version of Microsoft Office is required.

Nice to have

• Published work on ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or similar platforms.
• Experience with sports media platforms, live-score applications, or sports streaming services.
• Ability to adapt voice and style for Gen Z, football-fan, and pop-culture audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote freelance opportunity supporting global localization projects.
• Work focused on multilingual content transformation and sports localization.
• Quality-control assessment covering grammar and subject-matter expertise.
• Artificial-intelligence tools may support parts of the hiring process, while final decisions remain human-led.

Hiring process

• Applications are reviewed and shortlisted candidates are contacted to complete the application process.
• The assessment covers grammar and football subject-matter expertise.