About the Role
Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent Sports Subject Matter Experts specialized in football with exceptional writing skills to join our localization team. You will review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt football-related content so it resonates with audiences in your market.
Responsibilities
- Review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt sports-related content, mainly football, while adhering to writing style guides and guidelines
- Conduct market-specific research on local content, product and terminology trends, and best localization practices for the target audience in your market
- Provide feedback on written content
Requirements
- BS/BA and/or 2+ years of work experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or in copy-editing
- Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football
- Experience in translation and localization of multimedia content, preferably also machine translations and evaluations
- Native-level fluency in the target language
- Excellent grammar and writing skills in the native language
- Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing skills in the native language
- Tech savvy: strong practical knowledge of computers and mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets
- Owning licensed version of MS Office apps
- Ability to work independently and remotely
Skills
- Football expertise
- Writing
- Localization
- Translation
- Quality Control
- Copy Editing
- MTPE
- Grammar
- Market research
- Multimedia content localization
- Machine translation evaluation
- Creative writing
- Proofreading
- Editing
- MS Office
- Computer proficiency
- Mobile device proficiency
- Word processing
- Spreadsheet software
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Contract
Experience Level
- 2+ years of work experience
Education Level
- BS/BA
Salary/Compensations
- $26 - $31 an hour
About the Company
- As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences.
- Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources.
- Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types.
- Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them.
Equal Opportunity
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
