# Localization Program Manager

**Company**: Twitch
**Location**: Irvine, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $74,200-$129,800 USD
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Twitch is seeking a Localization Program Manager to oversee the operational core of its localization program, including vendor coordination, content workflows, quality processes, and launch execution across 29 languages.

The successful candidate will join a lean team of senior professionals operating as strategic partners to Product and Engineering, focusing on delivering a native experience for global users.

Key responsibilities:

- Manage end-to-end localization into 29 languages, including launches requiring creative asset localization, terminology building, and testing

- Monitor continuous localization operations and identify opportunities for improvement

- Develop and evolve localization quality processes, including testing and LQA workflows

- Improve translation quality output by developing and maintaining linguistic assets

- Influence upstream content operations for seamless, context-rich translations

- Build localization metrics reports (turnaround, quality scores, cost per word)

Requirements:

- 5+ years of localization project/program management experience

- Experience managing stakeholders and cross-organizational dependencies

- Familiarity with enterprise localization tools and translation management platforms (e.g., Smartling, memoQ, Phrase)

- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills

- Native speaker of one additional language

Preferred qualifications:

- Analytical mindset with data visualization and decision-making skills

- Native French, German, Chinese, or Japanese speaker

- Experience designing and implementing scalable localization processes and technical automation

- Track record of building localization programs from scratch or through transformation

- Experience evaluating MT/LLM quality in production workflows

- Solid understanding of localization metrics and data manipulation

Benefits include medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance, 401(k), maternity and parental leave, flexible PTO, and Amazon employee discount.

## Skills

### Required
- localization project management
- stakeholder management
- enterprise localization tools
- translation management platforms
- linguistic assets development
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- analytical mindset
- native French
- native German
- native Chinese
- native Japanese
- scalable localization processes
- technical automation
- MT/LLM quality evaluation
- localization metrics

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