French Linguist

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. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Linguist performs quality control tasks, transcreation tasks and on-demand translation tasks on assigned accounts/projects; coordinates the activities of a group of translators (internal and/or freelancers) and ensures that the work is performed at a satisfactorily high standard within the specified deadlines and quality level; ensures that the Language Process is being followed by the project team.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:

Performing quality control tasks on assigned projects (EN > FR)

Performing transcreation/translation/post-editing tasks (EN > FR)

Performing other linguistic tasks (EN > FR)

Managing project-related queries

Preparing, managing and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date

Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required

Developing and training new and existing freelancers according to the accounts’ and Welocalize’s needs

Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required

Ensuring good interaction among team members and resolving questions on terminology and language matters

Participating in the development of new and improved working processes

Achieving the goals set by the French Team Lead

The Linguist performs quality control tasks, transcreation tasks and on-demand translation tasks on assigned accounts/projects; coordinates the activities of a group of translators (internal and/or freelancers) and ensures that the work is performed at a satisfactorily high standard within the specified deadlines and quality level; ensures that the Language Process is being followed by the project team.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:

Performing quality control tasks on assigned projects (EN > FR)

Performing transcreation/translation/post-editing tasks (EN > FR)

Performing other linguistic tasks (EN > FR)

Managing project-related queries

Preparing, managing and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date

Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required

Developing and training new and existing freelancers according to the accounts’ and Welocalize’s needs

Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required

Ensuring good interaction among team members and resolving questions on terminology and language matters

Participating in the development of new and improved working processes

Achieving the goals set by the French Team Lead

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. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.