Localization Manager

Location: South San Francisco, CA 94080

Company

hirify.global provides a localization-focused opportunity coordinating translation projects and vendors.

What you will do

• Receive and process translation requests for marketing and creative content and prepare source and reference materials.
• Coordinate communications among linguists, content owners, internal linguistic reviewers, and translation vendors.
• Create and maintain schedules for several complex projects, allocate resources, track deadlines, and escalate priority or resourcing conflicts.
• Coordinate translated materials for regulatory review and approval and ensure compliance with relevant guidelines.
• Collaborate with vendors and reviewers on culturally appropriate translations, glossaries, and style guides.
• Track translation turnaround time, quality metrics, and vendor performance while recommending process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Translation, Communications, a related field, or an equivalent credential or work experience.
• At least 4 years of professional experience managing translation projects, including project timelines, resources, and deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for working with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Familiarity with managing translation quality using translation memories, glossaries or termbases, and style guides.
• Experience with linguistic review processes, gathering reviewer feedback, and communicating revisions to translation vendors.
• Familiarity with translation management systems (TMS).
• Knowledge of industry-standard file formats and localization best practices for print and digital documents, multimedia, and web content.
• Demonstrated problem-solving ability and capacity to adapt to changing project requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Organizational, prioritization, analytical, detail-oriented, collaboration, and risk-mitigation skills.

Nice to have

• Experience using JIRA or other project management software.
• Experience with Adobe Suite and multimedia content translation.
• Fluency in Spanish, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese.
• Proficiency in additional languages.
• Understanding of creative content design best practices for bi-directional languages.

Culture & Benefits

• 12-month engagement based in South San Francisco.
• Cross-functional collaboration with content owners, vendors, linguists, reviewers, and other stakeholders.
• Work focused on improving translation efficiency, quality, consistency, and compliance.