The Portuguese Multimedia Content Reviewer at Welocalize is responsible for ensuring the highest quality of accuracy in linguistic content review, localization, translation, and adaptation. The role involves writing and reviewing content in European Portuguese, localizing multimedia products, performing regular linguistic reviews, and collaborating with a global language team. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in journalism, copywriting, or copyediting, experience in translation and localization, and be fluent in English. They should also possess excellent computer literacy skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and remotely. Welocalize is committed to equal opportunities and encourages candidates with disabilities to apply.

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 Portuguese (from Portugal) Reviewer is responsible for the overall quality of their language at an account level.

In this exciting position, the Portuguese Multimedia Content Reviewer will be writing and reviewing linguistic content in Portuguese (European) to ensure the highest quality of accuracy for customers using the world's foremost multimedia platforms.

MAIN DUTIES

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

- Localize, translate and adapt content of various categories (i.e. multimedia, legal, technical, marketing etc.) while adhering to writing style guide and guidelines

- Write new copy for a range of multimedia products such as music, TV and app store apps, video on-demand and game subscriptions services.

- Perform regular linguistic review of their own work as well as the work performed by other members of the localization team for all content types.

- Copy-edit and fact check content to ensure accuracy of content

- Perform LQA (Localization QA) testing of any content published on live platforms (music and app descriptions, marketing material and marketing campaigns).

- Conducts market-specific research on local content treatment, content, product and terminology trends and best localization practices for the target audience in their market.

- Transcribe spoken content such as lyrics

- Report on data and/or assets across a broad scope of media and content types.

- Review linguistic assessments, create training material and documents for new projects and ensure that other counterparts of the localization team are fully trained on terminology, style and best practices

- Collaborate with global language team via virtual meetings, emails on content review tasks to ensure calibrating terminology and style, understanding trends and market specific insights, translations based on the market team's needs. 

REQUIREMENTS

BS/BA and 2+ years of work experience in the field of journalism, copywriting, or copyediting media content such as music, TV and applications with proof of writing samples
Experience in translation and localization of multimedia content
Ability to quickly detect issues and inconsistencies from a massive sea of content and make sound judgement calls based on information at hand
Is in tune and has a wide range of knowledge music artists, TV and cinema, gaming and pop culture
Has ability to own language market and make confident linguistic decisions
Must be highly detail-oriented with ability to multitask, prioritize and meet deadlines
Native in European Portuguese and fluent in English
Strong computer literacy, knowledge of iOS/ macOS systems a plus
Well capable of typing in their native level language using a local (English) keyboard
Ability to work independently and remotely
Collaborative; enjoys teamwork in a multicultural environment
Ability to work within 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.

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