European Spanish Linguist

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The Senior Spanish Linguist (European Spanish) performs quality control tasks and on-demand translation tasks, supports the coordination of the activities of a group of translators (internal and/or freelancers) for assigned projects, trains and develops freelancers, and ensures that the work is performed at a satisfactorily high standard within the specified deadlines and quality level.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:

- Perform consumer-oriented translations and reviews in various translation tools.

- Translate various types of content, including marketing, help and UIMaster or learn the tools associated with translation work.

- Follow the established translation process and raise queries when there is a need to.

- Learn the style guide and overall client’s requirements.

- Improve based on the corrections made by the internal and the client reviewers.

- Keep track of personal error statistics and work on the weak spots.

- Take part in the internal trainings and the ones organized by the client.

- Participate in the error arbitration process.

- Meet the productivity KPIs.

- Take part in the internal quality meetings and the quality calls organized by the client for the whole team.

- Constantly analyze own gaps and think of what assistance the senior members and the client can provide to help address those.

- Review the translations when ramped up and learnt ins and outs of the products..

University degree in Linguistics, Translations, Applied Modern Languages OR Bachelor’s degree in other fields plus relevant experience in translations.

Minimum 3 years of experience in translation

Experience in performing reviews

Fluent in English (both written and spoken, in a wide range of registers)

Native level in Spanish (Spain)

Experience of creating easy-to-read texts

Experience of creating content for tech-savvy readers.

Welocalize is committed to equal opportunities and in compliance with the General Law on the Rights of People with Disabilities, this vacancy is also available and we encourage to those candidates who have a disability certificate (equal to or greater than 33%) to apply.