Linguist Team Lead (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Linguist Team Lead (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

OUR CLIENT IS OPEN TO APPLICANTS FROM OVERSEAS

Our client is a dynamic, fast moving organization that specializes in providing services for trading in the financial markets. With 1000+ employees, they have grown fast since their formation in 2008.

They are looking to hire a Linguist Team Lead to lead and mentor local copywriters/translators ​​while integrating creativity with professionalism, being technologically savvy, and a language fluency upkeep, including but not limited to the management of linguistic quality. The Linguist Team Lead will also be the team’s go-to person when a translator has a linguistic question while working closely with localisation project managers.

Responsibilities

• Supervising, monitoring, and managing translators to ensure the quality of the translation in different languages

• Maintaining the localisation glossaries and style guides and keeping them up-to-date and audience-appropriate

• Identify team needs and provide coaching, hold training sessions to stay up to date with the latest translation techniques, and create development plans

• Manage and introduce new methods for translations tools, systems, and QA checking tools

• Collaborating with content creation and product teams to ensure that language requirements are understood and supported, both from technical and linguistic perspectives

• Evaluate the performance of team members and provide feedback; assist HOD in evaluations and update HOD about team performance

• Support HOD with the hiring process and training new team members

• Assist HOD to set goals and targets for the Local copywriter’s team

• Developing and measuring the individual skills of team members and creating a team structure that allows flexibility

• Organising the workflow according to the required targets to guarantee optimum results

• Overseeing the workflow to identify and address points of development

• Ensure quality and timeliness of the delivery and compliance with set procedures and SLAs

• Manage and oversee the resolution of product-related queries to ensure proper internationalisation of the companies’ products

• Work closely with the Vendor manager to ensure outsource linguists are following the same process and workflows for better quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in translation, linguistics, or any related field

• 3+ years of relevant experience

• Experience in localisation project management

• Experience with LQA projects is also a plus

• Fluent in English (writing and speaking)

• Familiarity with TMS and CAT tools

• Familiarity with CMS and/or Jira is an advantage