German Translation Specialist (EN-DE), Translation Services Operations
Job Description
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.
Basic Qualifications
* German at a native level (or minimum C2)
* Outstanding localization skills from English (minimum C1) into German - any additional source language is a plus
* Fully fluent in both oral and written English
* Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields: Translation, Communications, Linguistics, or related field (Master's degree preferred)
* Strong analytical, writing and editorial skills
* Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
* A great deal of personal initiative, decisiveness and independence
* Strong communication and exceptional collaboration skills
* Flexibility, proven ability to prioritize and work towards deadlines
* Strong working knowledge of MS Word and MS Excel, Outlook
Preferred Qualifications
* Previous experience in proofreading or post-editing of machine-translated content is a great advantage
* Experience with MT, LLM and Annotations
* Strong working knowledge of CAT tools
* Mark-up language skills, experience working with UI strings and e-learning content
* Project management and coordination experience
* Ability to make logical decisions while performing tasks even when provided information is ambiguous
* Previous experience working as part of a global team and different time zones
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