Content & Localization Manager
Lion People Global
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Set the strategic vision for localisation and content management, defining best practices that balance quality, speed, and scalability.
- Act as the key communication bridge between internal teams (product, marketing, operations, engineering) and external vendors, ensuring alignment, transparency, and stakeholder buy-in.
- Manage and optimise localisation workflows — from project scoping to delivery — across all content types and languages.
- Oversee translation management systems (we use XTM) and related tools (Rigi) to streamline and improve the localisation process.
- Handle large volumes of data from internal multilingual content systems, reporting on performance, efficiency, and quality metrics.
- Develop and maintain linguistic assets, including glossaries, tone of voice, and style guides across markets.
- Lead and mentor internal and external localisation contributors, ensuring consistent standards and performance.
- Champion process improvement and automation, exploring opportunities for platform integrations and future system enhancements.
- Report regularly on localisation progress, tracking budgets, spend, and quality — providing actionable insights to leadership and stakeholders.
- Drive alignment and advocacy, promoting the value of localisation and content excellence across the organisation.
- Vendor management: oversee relationships with multiple localisation vendors and freelancers, ensuring quality, consistency, and efficiency; you’ll also have the opportunity to influence vendor selection, performance evaluation, and strategic partnerships as the localisation function evolves.
Requirements
- 10+ years in experience in a localisation management, program, or project leadership role.
- Strong understanding of translation management systems (TMS) — XTM experience highly desirable — and familiarity with Rigi or similar visual localisation tools.
- Demonstrated ability to set strategy and execute — comfortable both leading at the operational level and influencing at the strategic level.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills; capable of aligning diverse teams around shared goals.
- Experience handling large-scale multilingual data and maintaining financial oversight (budgets, POs, invoices).
- Deep understanding of localisation best practices, language quality management, and global content workflows.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and autonomy, self-driven, and proactive in defining new approaches.
- Experience with platform integrations and system-level thinking is a plus.
- Fluency in English required; Chinese language skills a strong bonus but not mandatory. ▪ Knowledge and fluency in other languages are always a plus.
Benefits
- You’ll be joining at a pivotal moment with the opportunity to shape the future of global content at Our Company.
- This role combines strategic influence with hands-on execution, giving you the space to innovate, build new frameworks, and leave a tangible mark on how we communicate across the world.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
localisation managementtranslation management systemsdata handlinglanguage quality managementfinancial oversightplatform integrationsproject managementstrategy executionmultilingual content systemsprocess improvement
Soft skills
communicationstakeholder managementleadershipmentoringstrategic thinkingproactiveadaptabilityteam alignmentinfluencingautonomy