# Lead Linguist

**Company**: Welocalize
**Location**: Saarbrücken
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Language Services

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead Linguist to manage translation and copy-editing tasks, ensuring high-quality linguistic deliverables for assigned projects or accounts.

Responsibilities:

- Performing copy-edit tasks on assigned projects or accounts

- Performing on-demand translation tasks

- Performing lead linguist role on assigned accounts

- Taking ownership of deliveries that were translated internally or by external partners for one or more accounts into their target language

- Preparing, managing and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date as required by the account or project

- Managing project-related queries

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

- Coordinating with freelancers, agencies and internal linguists on assigned projects or accounts

- Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required

- Developing and training of internal linguists/new and existing freelancers according to the accounts’ and Welocalize’s needs

- Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required

- Participating in the development of new and improved working processes. Propose process improvements.

- Meet or exceed the KPIs in terms of productivity, on time delivery, quality

- Achieving the goals set by the team manager

Requirements:

- University degree in Translation/Applied Languages/Linguistic Studies or equivalent combination of education and experience

- Fluent in English, both written and spoken

- Native fluency in TARGET language

- 8+ years of relevant experience in translation/localization/editing or content writing

- 5+ years of review experience

- Thorough understanding of the localization process

- Excellent knowledge of terminology used various subject matters

- Subject-matter expert within company for assigned content specialities, service lines and processes

- Excellent user experience of standard CAT tools, e.g. XTM, SDL Studio and issue tracking and query management tools, e.g. JIRA

- Ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly

- Excellent user experience of standard software, such as Windows and Office applications

- Ability to give clear, concise and constructive feedback

- Ability to coordinate internal and external translators

- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills

- Ability and willingness to train/teach others and pass on knowledge.

- Ability to work with tight deadlines

- Excellent problem solving skills

- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, linguists

- Ability, willingness and experience in communicating with customers at various levels

- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

- Ability to work in a virtual team

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## Skills

### Required
- Translation
- Localization
- Editing
- Content Writing
- Project Management
- Terminology Management
- CAT tools
- JIRA
- Windows
- Office applications
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Virtual Teamwork

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