Responsibilities

Partner with the Country Manager and functional leads across Marketing, Legal, Business Operations, Policy, Communications, Community, and Supply to devise market strategies aligned with company goals.
Adapt global product strategies and updates for the Italian market, and share local business insights with regional and global localization leadership.
Develop language and cultural strategies that support international growth and authentic user experiences.
Own localization of product naming and creative copy, representing local teams and supporting brand development in international markets.
Research international user needs with Consumer Insights and Research teams.
Lead localization quality improvement initiatives and own quality strategy across platforms.
Manage translation and quality-assurance vendors, review metrics and root-cause analyses, and drive improvements.
Coordinate language feedback from users and employees.
Develop and maintain linguistic and cultural standards and guidelines.
Collaborate with Creative teams on content and supervise the local copywriter.
Work with Localization Program Managers and Linguistic QA Managers to ship high-quality localized products.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in product localization, including ownership of localization strategy for international launches and management of language quality and content localization.
Fluency in English and native-level Italian knowledge.
Experience developing market strategies informed by market research and data analysis.
Strong cross-functional collaboration, partnership-building, and initiative-driving skills.
Strategic and tactical execution skills, including working independently in ambiguous environments.
Understanding of UI/UX localization, including placeholders, tags, and smart counts.
Experience with CAT tools, internationalization libraries, CLDR standards, and LLM-based machine translation.
Strong project or program management and stakeholder management experience across teams and time zones.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to manage diverse stakeholders and leadership levels.
Ability to prioritize and manage conflicting demands.