Translation Coordinator

Location: South San Francisco, CA, United States

Company

hirify.global provides a role focused on coordinating professional translation and localization projects.

What you will do

• Receive and process translation requests for marketing and creative content, and prepare source and reference materials according to standardized processes.
• Coordinate communication among linguists, content owners, internal linguistic reviewers, translation vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Create and maintain schedules for several complex translation projects, allocate resources, track deadlines, and escalate resourcing or priority conflicts.
• Coordinate linguistic reviews, regulatory submissions, approvals, and delivery of translated materials.
• Collaborate with vendors and reviewers to improve translations and develop glossaries and style guides.
• Maintain project documentation, track turnaround time, quality, and vendor-performance metrics, and recommend process improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Translation, Communications, or a related field, another equivalent credential, or equivalent work experience.
• At least 4 years of professional experience managing translation projects, including coordinating timelines, resources, and deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for working with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Familiarity with managing translation quality through translation memories, glossaries or termbases, and style guides, including consistency and adherence to brand guidelines.
• 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.
• Strong organizational, prioritization, collaboration, analytical, attention-to-detail, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to adapt to changing requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Proficiency in project management tools and software for scheduling, tracking, and reporting translation projects.

Nice to have

• Experience using JIRA or other project management software to plan, track, and coordinate translation projects.
• 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

• Cross-functional collaboration with internal stakeholders, linguistic reviewers, and external vendors.
• Work focused on continuous improvement of translation efficiency and quality.
• Interaction with marketing, creative, content, regulatory, and localization functions.