Role Overview:
The Localisation Lead is responsible for production, delivery and quality of localisation for their market and ensures all localisation 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 Localisation Lead acts as the ambassador for localisation in the market(s), proactively building relationships with key stakeholders. They will also look for opportunities for market-specific localisation strategy - as well as informing central localisation strategy - to deliver a more locally-relevant and customer-centric experience.
Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:
Delivery
Ensure on-time delivery of localisation 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 localisation product testing for their market;
Manage localisation assets (Localisation Style Guides, Glossaries, Translation Memories);
Vendor Management:
Assess and onboard new vendors;
Build and foster rapport with vendor linguists;
Localisation 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 localisation strategy as required;
Identify localisation opportunities in customer journey to enhance international customer experience for their market;
Be ambassador for localisation and establish relationships with key localisation stakeholders in the market;
Provide cultural, linguistic, and market consultation to the business as required;
Facilitate research, experimentation, and A/B testing as required.
Qualifications & Skills:
5+ years experience in a similar localisation role in the online space
Native speaker of the target language with fluent English;
Proven experience in translation, localisation and language quality management;
Experience managing linguistic teams and/or multiple Language Service Providers;
Deep understanding of the end-to-end localisation processes;
Good knowledge of localisation 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.
Manage relationships with global vendors to ensure seamless collaboration and high-quality service delivery. Proficiency in either Indonesian / Bulgarian / Malay / Estonian / Tagalog / Lithuanian / Latvian is required to effectively oversee quality standards and support localisation initiatives for the respective language market.
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
Application Process:
Let’s go places together:
This role does not come with relocation assistance.
Pre-Employment Screening
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