Welocalize

Localization Operations Manager

Welocalize

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇮🇳 India

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Lead and coordinate a team of linguists, ensuring alignment with project and client requirements.
  • Manage recruitment, onboarding, training, work assignments, and performance evaluations for assigned linguists.
  • Provide ongoing coaching, mentoring, and professional development support.
  • Identify training needs and design, maintain, and deliver training programs.
  • Own the linguistic quality for assigned accounts by defining and executing quality standards and KPIs.
  • Conduct translation reviews, provide actionable feedback, and ensure corrections are fully understood and implemented.
  • Collaborate with the Quality Department to monitor KPIs, conduct root cause analyses, and implement corrective actions when needed.
  • Support quality planning and oversight, including linguistic quality assurance (LQA) and arbitration.
  • Build and maintain linguistic assets (glossaries, style guides, translation memories, documentation).
  • Act as the primary linguistic liaison for terminology, style, product features, and content questions.
  • Join client calls to discuss quality, strategy, and feedback; ensure all inputs are documented, clarified, and cascaded to the linguistic team.
  • Partner with subject matter experts (SMEs) for direct reviews and quality validation.
  • Ensure client feedback is accurately implemented and followed up.
  • Perform translation, review, and LQA tasks as needed.
  • Review and evaluate test translations for new linguists.
  • Contribute to arbitration processes and provide linguistic expertise in escalations.
  • Monitor workloads, identify workflow challenges, and propose solutions.
  • Support onboarding of new teams or accounts when required.
  • Participate in and support Welocalize initiatives such as internships and talent development programs.

Requirements

  • Experienced linguist with extensive translation and review expertise across multiple content types.
  • Native Hindi proficiency with excellent command of written and spoken English.
  • Strong leadership, people management, and team coaching skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage quality in large-scale translation projects.
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to engage with clients and internal stakeholders effectively.