French Localisation Specialist

TL;DR

French Localisation Specialist: Ensuring a French-native experience across all platforms, aligning content with the brand's tone of voice across channels and guidelines. Focus on quality control, on-demand translation, linguistic lead functions, and coordinating translators to ensure high standards within deadlines.

Location: Remote (Spain / Greece / France / Romania)

Company

hirify.global delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages.

What you will do

• Build and manage the localisation pipeline in close collaboration with country-level stakeholders and the global localisation team.
• Manage localisation and translation projects end-to-end, setting stakeholder expectations while ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality content.
• Support the onboarding of global recommended localisation vendors and review their performance.
• Be the primary point of localisation knowledge in the country, advising on best practices, processes, and budgeting.
• Work closely with local content creation teams to create web, sales, communication, and social media content.
• Consolidate and provide linguistic feedback to the translators/translation vendors.

Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of project management experience including budget management, workflow optimization, and stakeholder management.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on localization experience working on online translation software, Computer Assisted Translation tools, and Translation management systems is a must.
• Proven advanced training in the linguistic field; (bachelor’s degree minimum).
• Proven experience in adapting content for search engine optimization, social media content production, audiovisual localization, and knowledge of machine translation software.
• Fluent in English and a native-level French (spoken and written).
• Strong computer skills with knowledge of Excel, InDesign, HTML, and other web-based tools are a must.

Nice to have

• Experience working on the localization vendor side would be a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Ability to understand the diversity of the market to add value both in the business and the functional competence dimension.
• Directs efforts to achieve long-term business objectives and outcomes