Senior Linguist, Marketing and Life Sciences, Sesotho
Welocalize
Senior Linguist – Marketing & Life Sciences, Afrikaans
Welocalize
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Freelance Senior Linguist collaborating on multiple accounts and programs for Welocalize.
- Translate, localize, and adapt marketing and life sciences content (Investigator-facing, Patient-facing, Pharmacy, Help and UI).
- Perform copy editing and linguistic QA to ensure high-quality localized content.
- Work with CAT tools and translation platforms to manage and deliver projects.
- Contribute to training data transformation for NLP (collecting, annotating, evaluating content) when required.
- Collaborate with global teams across North America, Europe, and Asia to meet client needs.
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years' experience in translating and copy editing content in Investigator-facing, Patient-facing and/or Pharmacy material, Marketing, Help and UI content.
- Professional level understanding of English (US/GB).
- Native level expertise of Afrikaans as Target Language with core understanding of cultural nuances.
- Well versed with CAT tools (XTM, Phrase, Trados, Jira, Smartling, etc.).
- Working knowledge of MS Office applications (MS Word, MS Excel).
- Desirable: Translation degree or, if other degree, 3 years of translation experience or, if no degree, 5 years of translation experience.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
translationlocalizationcopy editinglinguistic QANLPcultural nuancesmarketing contentlife sciences content
Certifications
translation degree
