The Company

Our client requires a Linguistic Advisor to work with their Product Information Engineering - Localization team for a six-month contract. There could be possibilities for renewals.

The Job

Localize/translate software products, demos and accompanying documentation (online help systems, user documentation) from English into German and/or Spanish. Elaborate glossaries and linguistic resources required to maintain and evolve localized content.

Your responsibilities include:

• Localize graphical user interfaces and demos into German and/or Spanish
• Test localized software for cosmetic and linguistic correctness and write resulting error/bug reports
• Translate technical documentation and help systems into German and/or Spanish
• Validate and proofread material (technical and marketing) subcontracted to translation vendors to ensure high-level of QA
• Liaise internally and externally with all localization stakeholders and esp. with the localization manager
• Create and maintain product information glossaries and terminology databases

Your Experience

You must be an EU citizen or hold a regular work permit for France. In addition we require:

• Experience of localizing/translating software products
• Native speaker of German or Spanish with translation degree and/or IT engineer degree with a taste and a talent for translation
• Fluency in writing, understanding and speaking English is essential
• Excellent writing and translation skills
• Experience using software localization tools and computer-aided translation tools (such as Trados or a similar tool)
• Experience of internationalization and localization issues
• IT knowledge and OO programming a plus

Other Skills

• Good communicator
• Open to foreign cultures (ready to work in a cross-cultural environment)
• Organized, showing initiative, and attending to details
• Flexible

What we offer

• A cutting-edge and informal environment
• The opportunity to work with a dynamic, international team
• Internal training
• The choice of working in Paris or the South of France!

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Firehead, Ltd.
email: cj@firehead.net
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