Translation Specialist en Madrid

The Localization Lead is a pivotal role to our Amazon Kindle Books business. We are looking for a proactive person with strong language expertise to work closely with our Localization team, Program Managers and Marketing teams. The successful candidate will be self-directed, yet equally comfortable contributing within a large team environment. Strong interpersonal skills and versatility are required.

This is a Madrid-based position.


Responsibilities:

- Assist the Localization Team in driving the Spanish (French or Italian) linguistic quality for our products, services and various communications. Perform quality assurance and produce feedback (when necessary).
- Drive the development of language assets (style guides, translation memories, terminology) independently as well as with internal stakeholders and external language vendors.
- Step in to coach translation agencies, reply to translators’ questions and coordinate re-works.

- Assist the Marketing teams in handling translations, implementing language changes, reviewing content and coining new terms. Help improve Marketing language guides.
- Support the Marketing teams in creating campaigns, landing pages or other sporadic e-commerce tasks.

- Assist the Business team in multiple endeavors, such as handling author contacts, organizing book events to managing other projects.

- Bachelor’s degree in Translation, Linguistics, Editorial, Marketing or Media and Communications.
- Native and language expert in Spanish, French or Italian.
- Writing/editing experience with CAT tools (such as memoQ or Trados) and website and software localization (HTML, XML, etc.).
- Proven experience driving communications and relations with: external vendors, suppliers, freelancers, sellers, authors or similar.
- Ability to work independently, as well as to work with multiple stakeholders across various disciplines, anticipating both business and customer needs.

- Knowledge in other languages is a plus.
- Editorial experience supporting multiple languages.
- Readiness and proactivity to offer improvements and drive implementation across teams.