Senior Localization Manager – Product Operations, Global Expansion

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🔥 14 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

💰 $425M Debt Financing - TransPerfect on 2025-04

Consulting • Legal • Marketing

TransPerfect is a global language services and technology company that provides translation, localization, interpretation, multilingual customer support (contact center/BPO), regulatory and labeling services, and creative/global marketing solutions. It combines human linguists with technology — notably the GlobalLink translation management platform and AI/machine‑translation capabilities — to help organizations launch and manage content, software, websites, and campaigns in multiple languages and markets. TransPerfect serves enterprise clients across industries such as life sciences, finance, legal, gaming, retail, and media.

📋 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

• Possibility of extension beyond the initial 3–6-month interim period • Full-time interim assignment