Translation Specialist-ES en Barcelona

Are you looking to work in one of the most innovative and customer-centric e-commerce businesses on earth? Does joining a multicultural team of Translation, Proofreading and Outsourcing Specialists sound appealing to you? Do you have a passion for learning and developing yourself and others? Then consider joining the Amazon Localization Team, and help us contribute to expanding product selection across international platforms. Check out this video to get to know us: https://player.vimeo.com/video/220458892.

Amazon is currently looking for a motivated and talented linguist to join our team as a:
Translation Specialist (US-ES)

The role will be join our Localization Team in Barcelona or Madrid office in Spain.

The role

As a member of the Translation Team within the Consumer Localization department, you will play a key role in ensuring that human and machine-generated translations meet the right level of quality for our customers. You will:

- Post-edit machine-translated output in an efficient way to improve the information on the detailed product pages in Spanish on the website.
- Conduct quality checks by proofreading and reviewing work from your peers and external vendors and also provide feedback and coaching when needed.
- Maintain a terminology base for Spanish.
- Control and improve the quality of machine-translation engines.
- Provide ad-hoc and varied linguistic support (translation, linguistic review, testing) for other internal customers. We are proud to say that in our team, the scope of a Translation Specialist is not limited to linguistic tasks. Depending on your skills and interests, you will have opportunities to get involved in hiring, training, mentoring, technical or business support, project and people management.

o ES native level
o Able to work from English (mandatory), Italian or German
o Educated to degree level, preferably in Language Studies, Translation, Interpreting or Communication, or related fields such as Philology, Journalism, Public Relations, etc.
o Fully-functional oral and written communication skills in English
o Highly motivated to learn, develop and grow

o Knowledge of CAT tools
o Customer and business oriented
o Curious, flexible across multiple tasks
o Some previous experience with language related tasks, such as translation, proof-reading, editing, content creation or interpreting desirable
o Ability to prioritize, work towards deadlines
o Ability to take initiative and produce results, as well as to collaborate effectively with a diverse team

We look forward to receiving your application in English.