Localisation Lead - Spanish Mexican Argentinian Catalan jobs at Booking in Spain, Barcelona

The Localization Lead is responsible for production, delivery and quality of localization for their market and ensures all localization requirements are delivered on time, within budget and in line with local market needs. They help ensure that our platform and channels are culturally resonant, brand-aligned and market-optimized.

The Localization Lead acts as the ambassador for localization in the market(s), proactively building relationships with key stakeholders. They will also look for opportunities for market-specific localization strategy - as well as informing central localization strategy - to deliver a more locally-relevant and customer-centric experience.

• Delivery

  • Ensure on-time delivery of localization work for their language(s)/market(s)

• Quality Monitoring:

  • Monitor quality of localized content for their market, provide feedback to quality vendors, address issues with translation vendors, take a lead role in arbitrations, and escalate recurring issues to the central Quality Team as required;

  • Oversee localization product testing for their market;

  • Manage localization assets (Localisation Style Guides, Glossaries, Translation Memories);

• Vendor Management:

  • Assess and onboard new vendors;

  • Build and foster rapport with vendor linguists;

• Localization services:

  • Provide urgent ad-hoc marketing translations as required;

  • Provide consultation on selected localisation services such as transcreation, voice-over, post-editing, etc.;

• Strategy

  • Provide local market perspective to inform central localization strategy as required;

  • Identify localization opportunities in customer journey to enhance international customer experience for their market;

  • Be ambassador for localization and establish relationships with key localization stakeholders in the market;

  • Provide cultural, linguistic, and market consultation to the business as required;

  • Facilitate research, experimentation, and A/B testing as required

• Bachelor degree and above in language, translation, localization or international studies, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years experience in a similar localization role in the online space

• Proven experience in translation, localization and language quality management

• Native level of Spanish, with fluent English

• Experience managing linguistic teams and/or multiple Language Service Providers

• Deep understanding of the end-to-end localization processes

• Good knowledge of localization technology, incl. CATs, TMSs, MT and post-editing

• Good understanding of internationalization with experience in product testing and bug reporting

• Experience in creative writing, media or online marketing industry a plus

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to influence diverse stakeholders across business and leadership levels

• Proven track of conflict resolution and mediation

• Ability to show initiative, work independently, and drive initiatives at strategic level

• Strong business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and draw conclusions to make business decisions and drive actions

Total Reward Philosophy:

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be .

Career Development Opportunities:

• Learn more about here.

• and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

The Localization Lead is responsible for production, delivery and quality of localization for their market and ensures all localization requirements are delivered on time, within budget and in line with local market needs. They help ensure that our platform and channels are culturally resonant, brand-aligned and market-optimized.

The Localization Lead acts as the ambassador for localization in the market(s), proactively building relationships with key stakeholders. They will also look for opportunities for market-specific localization strategy - as well as informing central localization strategy - to deliver a more locally-relevant and customer-centric experience.

• Delivery

  • Ensure on-time delivery of localization work for their language(s)/market(s)

• Quality Monitoring:

  • Monitor quality of localized content for their market, provide feedback to quality vendors, address issues with translation vendors, take a lead role in arbitrations, and escalate recurring issues to the central Quality Team as required;

  • Oversee localization product testing for their market;

  • Manage localization assets (Localisation Style Guides, Glossaries, Translation Memories);

• Vendor Management:

  • Assess and onboard new vendors;

  • Build and foster rapport with vendor linguists;

• Localization services:

  • Provide urgent ad-hoc marketing translations as required;

  • Provide consultation on selected localisation services such as transcreation, voice-over, post-editing, etc.;

• Strategy

  • Provide local market perspective to inform central localization strategy as required;

  • Identify localization opportunities in customer journey to enhance international customer experience for their market;

  • Be ambassador for localization and establish relationships with key localization stakeholders in the market;

  • Provide cultural, linguistic, and market consultation to the business as required;

  • Facilitate research, experimentation, and A/B testing as required

• Bachelor degree and above in language, translation, localization or international studies, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years experience in a similar localization role in the online space

• Proven experience in translation, localization and language quality management

• Native level of American English

• Experience managing linguistic teams and/or multiple Language Service Providers

• Deep understanding of the end-to-end localization processes

• Good knowledge of localization technology, incl. CATs, TMSs, MT and post-editing

• Good understanding of internationalization with experience in product testing and bug reporting

• Experience in creative writing, media or online marketing industry a plus

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to influence diverse stakeholders across business and leadership levels

• Proven track of conflict resolution and mediation

• Ability to show initiative, work independently, and drive initiatives at strategic level

• Strong business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and draw conclusions to make business decisions and drive actions

Total Reward Philosophy:

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be .

Career Development Opportunities:

• Learn more about here.

• and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

The Localization Lead is responsible for production, delivery and quality of localization for their market and ensures all localization requirements are delivered on time, within budget and in line with local market needs. They help ensure that our platform and channels are culturally resonant, brand-aligned and market-optimized.

The Localization Lead acts as the ambassador for localization in the market(s), proactively building relationships with key stakeholders. They will also look for opportunities for market-specific localization strategy - as well as informing central localization strategy - to deliver a more locally-relevant and customer-centric experience.

• Delivery

  • Ensure on-time delivery of localization work for their language(s)/market(s)

• Quality Monitoring:

  • Monitor quality of localized content for their market, provide feedback to quality vendors, address issues with translation vendors, take a lead role in arbitrations, and escalate recurring issues to the central Quality Team as required;

  • Oversee localization product testing for their market;

  • Manage localization assets (Localisation Style Guides, Glossaries, Translation Memories);

• Vendor Management:

  • Assess and onboard new vendors;

  • Build and foster rapport with vendor linguists;

• Localization services:

  • Provide urgent ad-hoc marketing translations as required;

  • Provide consultation on selected localisation services such as transcreation, voice-over, post-editing, etc.;

• Strategy

  • Provide local market perspective to inform central localization strategy as required;

  • Identify localization opportunities in customer journey to enhance international customer experience for their market;

  • Be ambassador for localization and establish relationships with key localization stakeholders in the market;

  • Provide cultural, linguistic, and market consultation to the business as required;

  • Facilitate research, experimentation, and A/B testing as required

• Bachelor degree and above in language, translation, localization or international studies, or equivalent experience

• 5+ years experience in a similar localization role in the online space

• Proven experience in translation, localization and language quality management

• Native level of French with fluent English

• Experience managing linguistic teams and/or multiple Language Service Providers

• Deep understanding of the end-to-end localization processes

• Good knowledge of localization technology, incl. CATs, TMSs, MT and post-editing

• Good understanding of internationalization with experience in product testing and bug reporting

• Experience in creative writing, media or online marketing industry a plus

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills with ability to influence diverse stakeholders across business and leadership levels

• Proven track of conflict resolution and mediation

• Ability to show initiative, work independently, and drive initiatives at strategic level

• Strong business acumen and analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and draw conclusions to make business decisions and drive actions

Total Reward Philosophy:

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be .

Career Development Opportunities:

• Learn more about here.

• and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

Role Overview

We're looking for a seasoned Product Manager to lead our enterprise Treasury product suite. This pivotal role is at the intersection of e-commerce, fintech, and corporate finance. You’ll be the key link between business needs and technical solutions, translating complex financial requirements into a compelling product vision that directly impacts our company's financial health. If you have deep expertise in corporate treasury and a passion for building robust, scalable enterprise systems, this is a unique opportunity to shape the financial future of a leading OTA brand, Booking.com.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Partner with senior leaders in Finance and Treasury to translate business objectives into a strategic product vision. Act as the subject matter expert on treasury operations, including cash management, debt, investments, and foreign exchange (FX) risk.

• Own the entire product development lifecycle from ideation to launch. Define clear product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Lead and inspire cross-functional teams to deliver on ambitious product goals and KPIs.

• Work closely with engineering, design, and other business units in an agile environment.

• Engage with other product leaders within the organization to define and drive the development priorities for your product.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 4+ years of product management experience, with a significant focus on B2B or enterprise systems.

• Proven experience working with treasury management systems (TMS), such as FIS Quantum, SAP, or similar enterprise solutions.

• Good understanding of corporate treasury operations, including cash flow forecasting, liquidity management, debt, and foreign exchange.

• Expertise in managing complex enterprise-level product integrations.
  Exceptional communication and leadership skills with a proven ability to influence stakeholders.

• Prior Experience with Finance and/or Fintech products

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive , as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave

• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)

• Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide;

• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture;

• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit

• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions

• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

Application Process:

• Let’s go places together:

• Detailed instructions on post-application requirements including any required application materials, deadlines, portfolios, coding challenges, or other assessments as defined by BU or department.

• This role does not come with relocation assistance

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.

The Senior Localisation Specialist seeks to bring the best user experience to our audience in the French market, one of the company’s key markets, through high quality localisation. The Senior Localisation Specialist will help ensure the localised and transcreated content provided into French to Booking.com and its sister companies is accurate, locally relevant and is adhering to brand and product instructions and requirements as well as internal language assets, thus supporting the success of global strategic ambitions, new product launches and various campaigns in the company’s key markets locally.

The Senior Localisation Specialist is expert in quality and language asset management, as well as translation, localisation and transcreation, they are advanced users of translation management systems and possess the knowledge and skills required to train and critically assess quality provided by internal and external linguists in French as per the applicable quality framework.

The Senior Localisation Specialist is accountable for ensuring internally applicable quality standards are met and will provide local market insights and localisation consultancy and lead initiatives such as local competitor analysis, user research and experimentation to help identify and act upon opportunities to localize deeper for the local market.

Responsible for creating and maintaining language assets and language training resources, the Senior Localisation Specialist also supports the execution of localisation projects from a quality-process perspective.

• Own and be responsible and accountable for the quality of the translations provided by internal and external linguists in French to ensure the localised content into French is accurate, adapted to the local culture and market and is adhering to brand and product instructions and requirements as well as internal language assets. thus supporting the success of global strategic ambitions in their key market locally;

• Create, manage and maintain internal language assets and French language and culture guidelines, including term bases, glossaries, translation memories, style guides to be used by internal and external linguists;

• Assess the quality of the copy transcreated as part of key-market campaigns into the local language. May get involved at any stage of the end-to-end journey from the copy/brief creation of content to the localized copy quality assessment.

• Perform regular quality assessments of the copy translated by internal and external linguists as per applicable quality framework and driving translated copy improvements based on stakeholder feedback;

• Provide quality coaching and training to internal linguists, external vendors and freelancers to maintain and/or improve quality of the content localised into French;

• Monitor quality performance metrics and output of internal and external linguists providing translations into French, identify and act upon opportunities for improvement identified by performing root cause analysis, quality deep dives and giving consistent feedback and training to internal and external linguists;

• Ensuring that existing and new quality processes, methodologies, and guidelines are followed and understood by vendor linguists and that applicable quality performance targets are met;

• Contribution to the documentation of internal localisation quality processes and knowledge base maintenances, in cooperation with the Quality Manager;

• Apply existing market and language knowledge and expertise to provide proactive localisation consultancy to the business to help ensure the localized content is locally relevant to the French market and drive market localisation opportunities collaborating with relevant stakeholders across the company;

• Work closely with key stakeholders, also at every stage of the copy/content creation process, as needed by providing local market insights and consultancy;

• Lead key market research such as competitor analysis, localisation SWOT analysis, market research and support local language copy AB testing. Apply available market insights, findings and localisation data in daily work to support company and regional localisation strategy in the French market;

• Support the Quality Management team, Localisation Program Office and Hub Manager with regional and global quality-related initiatives;

• Own checking the quality of the language test, creating training resources for internal and external linguists and sharing regular feedback on their quality as per applicable quality framework during and after external and internal linguists’ hiring;

• Cooperate with the Quality Manager and support the development and execution of quality improvement programmes;

• Optimizing existing quality processes for French, initiating and implementing new ways to improve the team’s work to support quality;

• Proactively sourcing for insights and current trends in the local market and field of localisation quality management and technologies and identifying opportunities to apply gained knowledge within the team and localisation track;

• Bachelor Degree in Language, Translation, or related field

• Min. 5 years of experience in the localisation industry

• Min. 5 years experience in translation, transcreation, audiovisual translation and/or writing localized copy for the French market and or managing the localisation quality of French

• Native level French speaker with excellent knowledge of spoken and written English

• Experience in QA testing or Linguistic QA management;

• Experience in quality management including revision, editing, giving and receiving feedback on translation quality to internal and external linguists

• Terminology management for French

• Excellent proficiency with at least 1 translation management software

• MT post-editing

• Analytical skills and ability to interpret available quality and localisation data and market insights to support and maintain quality in French

• Excellent communication and networking skills with a strong ability to influence different stakeholders (virtually and in person)

• Proactive and initiative taker, both when working independently and in collaboration with a team;

• Stakeholder and vendor management

• Ability to provide quality coaching and continuous feedback effectively and objectively

• Understanding of internationalization, SEO, e-commerce, UX and marketing techniques

• Teamwork and ability to cooperate effectively with a local and international global team

• Prior experience as a Senior Localisation Specialist, Quality Manager or related roles is a plus

• Experience with e-commerce product localisation and marketing and creative content translation and transcreation is a plus

Total Reward Philosophy:

• The benefits and perks offered by the company can be .

Career Development Opportunities:

• Learn more about here.

• and benefit from a mentoring relationship with a more experienced person to help you identify and achieve your professional and personal development goals.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.