Language Manager, Africa
Canva
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Anywhere in Africa
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About the role
- Work with the Localisation Lead to create Canva’s voice across all parts of the Canva product in 19 African languages
- Translate key content and manage the relationship with our localisation vendor
- Develop/update style guides and glossaries
- Review and evaluate translations
- Provide cultural insights and guidance
- Identify key opportunities for localisation improvements
- Review vendor translations
- Assess and source new LSPs
- Answer linguistic questions
- Triage results of scripted testing
- Establish relationships with key stakeholders in marketing, subscriptions, content, and localisation
Requirements
- Passionate about languages and cultures
- Understand customer needs in South Africa, Kenya, and/or Nigeria
- Ideally speak South African languages & Swahili
- Entrepreneurial spirit, strong bias towards action and ownership
- Copy-writing experience
- Experience in localisation for a SaaS product
- Expert with CAT tools
- Experience with Smartling, Braze, Wordpress, Canva
- Solid understanding of organic growth (SEO)
- Some design experience or familiarity with design tools
- Tertiary education in linguistics, literature, or localisation
Benefits
- Flexible, remote-friendly ways of working
- Opportunity to contribute beyond the scope of this specific role
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
localisationtranslationcopy-writingCAT toolsSEOdesign experiencelinguisticsliterature
Soft Skills
passionate about languages and culturesentrepreneurial spiritstrong bias towards actionownershipcultural insightsrelationship management