A Translation Services Translation Specialist has exceptional linguistic and translation skills, organization and attention to detail, and excellent communication to manage relationships with colleagues, external partners and other stakeholders.
The Translation Specialist manages quality by assessing and scoring translations (both machine-generated and human), working with language assets like style guides, translation memories and term bases, and providing comprehensive and structured feedback supported by sound knowledge of MQM’s framework. This feedback will be used to improve human linguists’ quality, train and enhance machine translation engines as well as quality prediction models. The candidate will be comfortable working in an international, fast-paced environment, where change and ambiguity are present as we constantly grow, improve, and innovate.


Key job responsibilities
* Conduct quality checks by proofreading/reviewing linguistic work from freelance translators, peers and other external vendors to ensure adherence to customer’s and company’s quality standards.
* Provide feedback and linguistic coaching to your peers, freelance translators and other external vendors and engage in quality improvement initiatives when needed.
* Review and improve machine-translation engines’ (MT and LLM) quality by assessing output and providing linguistic feedback.
* Monitor external vendor quality progress, investigate quality variations and develop and implement measures to drive quality improvement in collaboration with other internal teams.
* Contribute to the maintenance of existing language assets, namely Style Guides, Term Bases and Translation Memories.
* Occasionally, provide manual translation, such as during the launch of a new language combination.
* Occasionally, post-edit machine-translated product detail pages in an efficient way to increase the product availability for the customer in their preferred language.
* Depending on the group’s needs and your own skills and inclinations, support our leadership, business and tech teams by taking an active part in training, project/program management, etc.