Localization Manager

Responsibilities

• Own a portfolio of concurrent localization programs from intake and scoping through delivery, tracking dependencies, risks, deadlines, and decisions across markets.
• Translate creative and campaign briefs into localization plans that define market coverage, asset scope, workflow, context, review rounds, owners, and acceptance criteria.
• Lead transcreation and cultural vetting across static and motion creative, video and subtitles, social copy, prompts, push notifications, and app-store content.
• Brief and coordinate language specialists, market leads, regional partners, localization vendors, creative agencies, producers, and designers; create clear instructions that enable high-quality work across time zones.
• Contribute to terminology and localizability decisions, maintain shared glossaries and guidance, and ensure localized creative assets adhere to established language and market policies.
• Lead linguistic and in-context quality review, consolidate specialist feedback, validate implementation, distinguish ship-blocking issues from preferences, and provide clear final approval or remediation guidance.
• Partner with creative and production teams to make localized work executable across many production and delivery systems.
• Continuously improve localization workflows by prototyping and maintaining API-based automations, connectors, and lightweight internal tools.
• Build AI-enabled feedback and quality systems that turn market insight into reusable guidance, validate review outputs, and surface inconsistencies while preserving human judgment.
• Establish quality controls appropriate to each market, content type, and level of risk, with automated verification to check review outputs, surface inconsistencies, and strengthen human judgment.
• Maintain clear reporting on progress, tradeoffs, launch readiness, and the business impact of the work.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience managing localization programs in fast-moving technology or consumer environments with complex creative-production needs.
• A strong record of delivering multi-market marketing localization and transcreation across several content types and production formats.
• Experience managing language specialists and vendors, including briefing, capacity management, quality calibration, feedback, and escalation.
• Excellent localization judgment: you can separate linguistic correctness, cultural resonance, brand preference, implementation defects, and genuine launch risk.
• Hands-on experience with localization and creative-production systems, including TMS, CMS, Figma, Frame.io, and project-management tools; comfort learning and connecting new systems quickly.
• Strong program-management habits, including scope definition, prioritization, dependency management, deadline control, and concise stakeholder communication.
• Ability to operate through ambiguity, changing creative, compressed timelines, and many parallel workstreams.
• Skill at influencing cross-functional partners without relying on formal authority and at building trust with regional and language experts.
• A demonstrated AI-native working style, with Codex used daily to plan and execute work, analyze information, and continuously improve workflows.
• The technical fluency to independently prototype, build, troubleshoot, and maintain lightweight automations and integrations using APIs, connectors, and scripting, with the ability to work independently across technical workflows.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with AI tools for localization and quality systems.
• Familiarity with OpenAI products and technical stack.