Senior Localization Manager – Product Operations, Global Expansion

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🔥 19 hours ago

🇰🇷 South Korea – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚡️ Product Operations

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TransPerfect

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5001 - 10000 employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

TransPerfect is a global language and technology company that provides translation, localization, interpretation, and content services combined with software and AI-powered tools such as the GlobalLink translation management platform. It offers multilingual marketing, legal and life‑sciences regulatory support, contact center/BPO services, multimedia localization, and solutions for website, software and app globalization. TransPerfect serves large enterprise and Fortune 500 clients across dozens of industries and supports content in 200+ languages.

📋 Description

• Define and execute the end-to-end localization strategy for the Japanese market • Establish internationalization and localization best practices, guidelines, and quality standards across Engineering and Product teams • Manage localization schedules, budgets, resource planning, and launch readiness across multiple geographic regions • Oversee localization for hardware interfaces, including font, layout, screen constraint, and character set compatibility on POS devices and payment hardware • Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate Localization Management Systems and Translation Management Systems into CI/CD pipelines for continuous, automated translation deployment • Ensure accurate translation and adaptation of complex financial workflows, including multi-currency transactions, tax calculations, localized invoicing formats, and payment regulatory disclosures • Oversee linguistic quality assurance and testing across physical hardware devices and digital platforms • Work with Legal, Compliance, and Risk teams to ensure localized content complies with regional financial regulations, data privacy laws, and local payment industry standards • Maintain style guides, terminology glossaries, and translation memories specific to financial technology, SaaS operations, and hardware user interfaces • Select, onboard, and manage external Language Service Providers, freelance translators, and LQA testers • Track LSP performance and establish KPIs around translation accuracy, turnaround time, and cost efficiency • Collaborate with Marketing and regional go-to-market teams to deliver localized marketing materials, merchant support documentation, and onboarding flows

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience managing end-to-end localization programs for software and digital products across multiple markets • Experience localizing products for the Japanese market • Native or near-native Japanese fluency is a plus • Experience in fintech, payments, financial services, or other regulated industries is strongly preferred • Strong understanding of internationalization (i18n), localization (l10n), linguistic quality assurance (LQA), and localization best practices • Hands-on experience with CAT tools or translation management systems, such as Smartling • Experience with project-tracking tools such as Jira • Practical experience using LLMs and AI-assisted translation workflows • Experience working cross-functionally with Product, Design, Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and external localization vendors • Strong vendor management skills, including overseeing language service providers, quality metrics, timelines, and budgets • Ability to manage multiple projects, communicate technical requirements, and deliver high-quality localization within tight deadlines • Experience localizing hardware interfaces, mobile applications, web dashboards, or payment-related workflows is highly desirable • Availability to work full-time for an initial 3–6-month interim assignment, with the possibility of extension

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time interim position for an initial period of 3–6 months, with the possibility of extension