French Linguist
WelocalizePosted 4/8/2025
French Linguist
Welocalize
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Job Summary
Welocalize is a global transformation partner that accelerates international business growth through multilingual content transformation services. As a French Linguist, you will perform quality control tasks, transcreation, and translation on assigned projects, manage project-related queries, and interact with clients. You will also develop and train new freelancers, test and qualify vendors, and participate in process development. With a strong understanding of terminology and localization processes, you will work closely with the French Team Lead to achieve goals. Welocalize offers flexible remote work options, training data transformation solutions, and opportunities for growth. If you are fluent in French and English, have experience as a translator, and excellent communication skills, apply now.
Job Description
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.
MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB
The Linguist performs quality control tasks, transcreation tasks and on-demand translation tasks on assigned accounts/projects; coordinates the activities of a group of translators (internal and/or freelancers) and ensures that the work is performed at a satisfactorily high standard within the specified deadlines and quality level; ensures that the Language Process is being followed by the project team.
MAIN DUTIES
The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:
Performing quality control tasks on assigned projects (EN > FR)
Performing transcreation/translation/post-editing tasks (EN > FR)
Performing other linguistic tasks (EN > FR)
Managing project-related queries
Preparing, managing and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date
Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required
Developing and training new and existing freelancers according to the accounts’ and Welocalize’s needs
Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required
Ensuring good interaction among team members and resolving questions on terminology and language matters
Participating in the development of new and improved working processes
Achieving the goals set by the French Team Lead
QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIRED SKILLS
- University degree in Translation/Applied Languages and related experience as translator and/or reviewer of 3+ years
- Fluent in French (native level), both written and spoken, fluent in English, both written and spoken
- Experienced as a translator in : Mobile Apps, Search Engines, IT Consumer products, Entertainment, Marketing, Software UI, Websites
- Excellent feel for language (source/target)
- Excellent knowledge of terminology in the following subject matters: IT consumer products, social media, entertainment
- Thorough understanding of the localization process.
- Excellent user experience of standard software, such as Windows and Office applications, and standard CAT tools (e.g. 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.
- Ability to work with tight deadlines.
- Ability to give clear, concise and constructive feedback. Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, translators.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
- Ability and willingness to train/teach others and pass on knowledge.
- Ability, willingness and experience in communicating positively with customers at various levels
- Ability to work in a virtual team.
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 those candidates who have a disability certificate (equal to or greater than 33%) to apply.
