Localization Project Manager (Contract)
Job Description
The Globalization team helps to bring Square products and services to the world. Our goal is to leverage our success in the US and deliver innovative, simple, unique, and fully localized experiences to our international customers. We are looking for a highly motivated project manager to join our fun and fast-paced team to help us shape the Square message with maximum local relevance, amplifying our brand and products in key markets around the globe.
You Will:
Schedule, manage, coordinate, track, and troubleshoot localization projects and tasks for multiple locales/languages
Manage external linguists and localization service providers including LQA tasks to meet our internal partners needs
Engage and build relationships with cross-functional teams and stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Marketing, Customer Success, in-country Marketing teams, etc.) to ensure localization requirements are implemented and the localization processes are well understood.
Evangelize localization best practices and ensure both external and internal partners compliance
Qualifications
You Have:
4+ years of experience in Localization project management including vendor management or equivalent
Passionate and knowledgeable about globalizing software and hardware
Familiarity with transcreation, translation and localization process and technology
Experience with CAT tools, LQA tools and machine translation post-editing tasks
Experience with standard project management methodologies and tools
Experience with content and translation management systems
Outstanding organizational skills: the ability to handle multiple projects interacting with various stakeholders simultaneously
Ability to identify requirements and prioritize critical deliverables
Experience as an excellent team player in a fast-paced multi-cultural team
Excellent communication skills with technical and non technical stakeholders
Exceptional attention to detail
Nice to Have:
Fluency in two or more languages besides English
Excellent communication skills with technical and non technical stakeholders
Proven problem solving skills
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.