DESCRIPTION:
A Translation Specialist has exceptional linguistic and translation skills, organization and attention to detail, and excellent communication to manage relationships with colleagues, external partners and other stakeholders.
Key job responsibilities
- Conduct quality checks by proofreading/reviewing linguistic work from freelance translators, peers and other external vendors to ensure adherence to customer’s and company’s quality standards.
- Provide feedback and linguistic coaching to your peers, freelance translators and other external vendors and engage in quality improvement initiatives when needed.
- Review and improve machine-translation engines’ (MT and LLM) quality by assessing output and providing linguistic feedback.
- Monitor external vendor quality progress, investigate quality variations and develop and implement measures to drive quality improvement in collaboration with other internal teams.
- Contribute to the maintenance of existing language assets, namely Style Guides, Term Bases and Translation Memories.
- Occasionally, provide manual translation,
such as during the launch of a new language combination.
- Occasionally, post-edit machine-translated product detail pages in an efficient way to increase the product availability for the customer in their preferred language.
- Depending on the group’s needs and your own skills and inclinations, support our leadership, business and tech teams by taking an active part in training, project/program management, etc.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Mexican Spanish at a native level (or minimum C2)
- Outstanding localization skills from English (minimum C1) into Mexican Spanish - any additional source language is a plus
- Fully fluent in both oral and written English
- Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields: Translation, Linguistics, Communications, or related field (Master's degree preferred)
- Strong analytical, writing and editorial skills
- Strong attention to detail and organizational ski