# Localisation Project Manager **Company**: Wise **Location**: Tallinn **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: €3,600 – €4,700 gross monthly **Category**: Language Services **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000155416779-localisation-project-manager?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_67f0c954-99d ## Description Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money. We’re looking for a Localisation Project Manager to join our growing Localisation team in Tallinn. Our team manages localisation projects across varied content types and language sets, ensuring high-quality, scalable experiences for our global audience. You will run end-to-end localisation initiatives, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, creative teams, and external vendors while driving automation and MT/AI workflows to keep our operations fast, fail-proof, and efficient. Your Mission In this role, your primary focus will be running end-to-end localisation projects within established time, cost, and quality frameworks. You will oversee requests across key channels - including our Help Centre, Notification Service, Product UI, and Marketing campaigns - while helping refine internal operations and methodologies for scale. What You’ll Be Doing - End-to-End Project Management: Plan, manage, and execute localisation projects across any content type and language set - from initial intake and scoping to QA, release, and post-delivery review. - Stakeholder Management: Build trust and manage expectations across cross-functional teams. Communicate project status, risk logs, and quarterly pipelines, while identifying opportunities to refine workflows to optimise timelines, quality, or costs. - Localisation Best Practices: Promote optimal workflows, CAT/TMS tooling, and industry best practices across stakeholders and project teams. Drive continuous process improvement to reduce manual intervention and build scalable operations. - Budget & Cost Control: Help build quarterly spend forecasts, monitor outsource spend against actuals, and proactively predict and explain budget variances. - Vendor Operations: Lead day-to-day management of external partners (LSPs and freelancers), regularly tracking quality standards, SLAs, timeliness, rate cards, and invoicing. - Operational Collaboration: Partner with Localisation Managers to refine internal workflows, documentation, and operational standards. - Mentorship: Optionally mentor junior Localisation Coordinators to level up their understanding of complex project workflows, stakeholder management, and vendor operations. QUALIFICATIONS: About You - Localisation Experience: 2+ years of project or program management experience delivering cross-functional, end-to-end client-side localisation initiatives (in tech, fintech, or digital product environments). - Tooling & MT/AI Expertise: Solid hands-on experience using Translation Management Systems / CAT tools (e.g., Crowdin, Phrase, XTM, Smartling) and integrating MT/AI workflows with human review. - Stakeholder & Vendor Ops: Proven track record managing external vendors (LSPs, freelancers) and collaborating with cross-functional internal stakeholders (Product, Marketing, Engineering, Legal). - High-Pressure Execution: Ability to prioritize, flex, and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment with competing deadlines, changing scopes, and varied content types (UI strings, emails, marketing copy, legal text). - Autonomy & Ambiguity: Comfortable working with minimal supervision, dealing with ambiguity, and influencing decisions through clear communication and trust-building. - Cultural Sensitivity: Deep appreciation of linguistic nuances, internationalisation requirements (variables, ICU plurals, RTL), and cultural sensitivities across markets. - Right to Work in Estonia: You are currently based in Estonia and hold a valid work permit. Some Extra Hints That Would Be Great (Nice-to-Haves) - Experience managing localisation specifically for Product UI and Marketing content in a financial or tech company. - Experience with CRM integrations, Git, Figma connectors, or continuous localisation setups. - Industry certifications such as PMP, Prince2, or Agile/Scrum. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: What We Offer - Competitive Salary: €3,600 – €4,700 gross monthly (depending on your skills and experience) - Equity: New Hire Stock Grant. - Growth & Impact: High-impact role in a growing global team with opportunities to launch new languages, experiment with AI tools, and shape localisation operations. - Workplace Flexibility: Hybrid work setup from our Tallinn office ## Skills ### Required - localisation project management - Translation Management Systems - CAT tools - MT/AI workflows - stakeholder management - vendor operations ### Nice to have - CRM integrations - Git - Figma connectors - continuous localisation setups - PMP - Prince2 - Agile/Scrum --- Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000155416779-localisation-project-manager?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)