Language Training Specialist - Japanese
Coordinates Japanese localization quality for customer education and partner enablement training, covering linguistic review, eLearning and LMS implementation QA, vendor collaboration, and process improvement. The role requires Japanese localization expertise, strong project management, and 20 hours per week for a six-month engagement.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own and apply Japanese localization QA standards across training content, including accuracy, clarity, tone, terminology, and cultural nuance.
- Support development of glossaries, style guides, QA checklists, review processes, and localization assets.
- Serve as a partner for translation questions involving Notion-specific concepts, product terminology, and training context.
- Support QA of technical implementation in eLearning authoring tools and LMS environments, including course files, quizzes, and answer selections.
- Coordinate across Customer Education, Partner Enablement, Localization, and vendors on priorities, timelines, translation progress, and quality expectations.
- Identify workflow risks and recommend improvements that increase translation quality and reduce time to launch.
- Document repeatable processes that make training and help center localization easier to manage over time.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of localization workflows, including vendor collaboration, review cycles, glossaries, style guides, QA rubrics, and linguistic QA.
- Experience with Japanese localization QA, ideally for SaaS, technical training, customer education, or partner enablement content.
- Ability to review translated content for quality, clarity, terminology accuracy, cultural nuance, and learner comprehension.
- Familiarity with eLearning or LMS tools.
- Comfort working with technical or product-specific terminology that may not translate directly.
- Strong attention to detail, especially in learner-facing content, quizzes, course setup, formatting, and implementation QA.
- Strong project management skills and ability to bring structure to ambiguous areas.
Nice to Have
- Experience with platforms such as Skilljar or Parta authoring tools.
- Native-level Japanese language expertise and understanding of effective education in the Japanese market.
Compensation and Availability
- 6-month, part-time role with an option to extend.
- 20 hours per week.
- Preferred location is Tokyo; remote applicants with strong Japanese market expertise and timezone overlap with Japan may be considered.
Skills
Localization Qa, Linguistic Qa, Elearning, Learning Management Systems, Skilljar, Parta, Glossaries, Style Guides, Qa Checklists, Translation Workflows, Project Management, Saas Terminology
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