# Associate Localization Program Manager, Tech COO

**Company**: Salesforce
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $80,900 - $122,300 annually
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As an Associate Localization Program Manager on our Tech COO Localization team, you will play a key role in ensuring our suite of products delivers a world-class user experience for our international customers.

You will partner with engineers, product teams, and our localization experts to drive efficient, scalable, and high-quality localization processes.

Responsibilities:

- Process Improvement: Partner with team members to enhance product localization delivery, focusing on upstream development efficiencies.

- Release Management: Support assigned product teams to ensure efficient, timely, and high-quality localization releases for international customers.

- Vendor Collaboration: Manage scalable localization handoffs and deliveries, maintaining strong communication channels to ensure vendor and project success.

- Technical Innovation: Collaborate with engineers to automate processes and integrate AI-based tooling to boost productivity.

- Project/Program Leadership: Manage end-to-end technical localization projects, including scope, scheduling, and execution.

- Quality Assurance: Lead QA processes, perform troubleshooting/bug fixing, and identify opportunities to scale testing efforts.

- Knowledge Sharing: Document workflows and best practices; maintain open communication with the team to share insights.

- Global Readiness: Educate product, engineering, and design teams on localization best practices, ensuring localization is integrated early in the development lifecycle.

Required Skills:

- 2-3 years of hands-on localization project or program management experience.

- Bachelor's degree in a field related to language, management, localization, technology, or equivalent experience.

- Strong technical understanding of localization and internationalization principles.

- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and tools rapidly.

- A strong enthusiasm for AI-based tools is required; demonstrated experience using AI-powered tooling to automate tasks is a strong plus.

- Proficiency with common file formats (e.g. XML, HTML, JSON, Markdown, XLIFF).

- Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git).

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Proven ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

- Passion for languages, high energy, and a positive, collaborative attitude.

- Experience or exposure to Translation Management Systems (TMS) and project management methodologies.

The typical base salary range for this position is $80,900 - $122,300 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $97,400 - $134,000 annually.

## Skills

### Required
- localization project management
- technical understanding of localization
- AI-based tools
- XML
- HTML
- JSON
- Markdown
- XLIFF
- Git
- Translation Management Systems
- project management methodologies

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