# Linguistic Project Manager

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

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## Description

This role involves managing translation and copy-editing tasks, ensuring high-quality linguistic deliverables for assigned projects or accounts.

Responsibilities include coordinating with freelancers and agencies, maintaining language resources, resolving terminology queries, and collaborating with clients and internal teams to enhance workflow efficiency.

Key responsibilities:

- Performing copy-edit tasks on assigned projects or accounts

- Performing on-demand translation tasks

- Performing lead support on assigned projects or accounts

- Managing and maintaining language materials, including glossaries, Style Guides, and work instructions

- Managing project-related queries

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

- Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required

- Developing and training internal linguists and external partners

- Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required

- Participating in the development of new and improved working processes

- Meeting or exceeding KPIs in terms of productivity, on-time delivery, and quality

- Achieving goals set by the team manager

Requirements:

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

- Native fluency in target language

- Fluency in English, both written and spoken

- 4+ years of experience in translation, localization, editing, or content writing

- 2+ years of review experience

- Thorough understanding of the localization process

- Good user experience with standard software, such as Windows and Office applications

- Good user experience with 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 interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills

- Excellent knowledge of terminology used in two or more subject matters

- Ability to work with tight deadlines

- Ability to give clear, concise, and constructive feedback

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

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

## Skills

### Required
- Translation
- Localization
- Editing
- Content Writing
- Project Management
- CAT tools
- JIRA
- Windows
- Office applications

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