# Dutch Language Manager (12 month contract)

**Company**: Canva
**Location**: Amsterdam, NH
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Language Services
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

While supporting flexible work arrangements, this role requires a hybrid capacity in Amsterdam, allowing for collaboration with teams and supporting users.

About the role: Every month, over 180 million Canva users create designs in one of 100 languages other than English. The Localisation specialty is a small team of linguists, project managers, and engineers working to deliver a hyperlocalised experience.

As a Language Manager, you'll utilise your linguistic and cultural expertise to ensure the best possible Canva experience for international users. You'll be the creative hub for all Dutch content and advise on Canva's branding in the Dutch market.

Responsibilities:

- Shape Canva's voice across all product parts in Dutch

- Translate and adapt key content for Dutch-speaking users

- Manage relationships with localisation vendors and language partners

- Develop and maintain Dutch style guides, glossaries, and localisation best practices

- Review and evaluate translation quality across product and marketing surfaces

- Identify opportunities to improve localisation quality and user experience

- Answer linguistic and cultural questions from stakeholders across Canva

- Support QA processes and triage localisation bugs and testing results

Requirements:

- Experience in localisation, internationalisation, content, or language management

- Strong understanding of the Dutch language and cultural nuances

- Experience reviewing localisation quality across different surfaces

- Familiarity with CAT tools and localisation workflows

- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills

- Comfort working with data, feedback, and user insights to improve quality

- Experience working in SaaS, product, or tech environments is highly valued

Nice to have:

- Experience as a Language Lead at an LSP or software company

- Experience with Smartling or similar CAT tools

- Copywriting or transcreation experience

- Understanding of SEO and organic growth

- Design experience or strong visual instincts

- Experience working with AI-assisted localisation workflows

- Tertiary education in linguistics, literature, localisation, or related fields

## Skills

### Required
- Dutch
- localisation
- content management
- linguistic expertise
- cultural knowledge
- CAT tools
- communication skills
- data analysis

### Nice to have
- Language Lead experience
- Smartling experience
- copywriting
- transcreation
- SEO understanding
- design experience
- AI-assisted localisation workflows
- linguistics education

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