# Localization Manager

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $207k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Localization Management, Transcreation, Cultural Adaptation, Tms, Cms, Figma, Frame.Io, Api Automation, Scripting, Project Management, AI Tools, Quality Assurance
**Posted:** 2026-07-10

> Localization Manager responsible for owning creative localization programs from brief to delivery across global markets. Requires 7+ years experience in multi-market marketing localization, transcreation, vendor management, workflow automation with APIs, and strong localization judgment for high-quality output at scale.

## Job Description

## 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.

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