Localization Quality Manager - Polish translation

Expedia

Place of work
Prague
Contract type
full-time

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Expedia - We want to own and power the best travel brands in the world. We want our brands to be independent, innovative, fast. We want them relentlessly focused on what drives value for their customers.

We are aggressive. We will grow and take share from our competitors. Our primary growth drivers will be technology and product innovation, customer loyalty, global expansion, and channel penetration.

Together as a family our competitive advantages are:

- The best supply position in the world
- Scale in our world class technology and operations platforms.
- Unsurpassed intelligence through sharing of our smart people, insight, and best practices

Looking to combine your excellent language, editorial and project-management skills, top-notch customer service abilities, and technology interests into one great job?

We are actively searching for a polish speaking localization Quality Manager who will lead the drive of our work in the Polish language.

This role can offer you a great mix of translation and localization work in a dynamic, multi-cultural and productive environment.

Job Description:
- Be accountable for and lead the quality of content and User Interface for Expedia sites into Polish.
- Ensure their translation team follows GSO (Global Supply Operations) quality processes and necessary guidelines and instructions.
- Exhibiting strong leadership, you will build strong internal and external business relationships in support of business objectives, and lead a culture of continuous improvement and quality monitoring/ improvement.
- Responsible for liaising with the partners regarding quality issues and establishing a solid review cycle, assessing the feedback from internal clients together with Project Managers.
- Manage terminology, glossaries, reference materials and style guides for their specific language.
- Translation of locale specific content for Expedia Inc. branded websites
- Copywriting of Point of Sale specific marketing, merchandizing and promotional copy in native language.
- Translation and maintenance of Social Media content (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) as required by POS.
- Ensure all samplings and QA results are documented and reported to the necessary partners. In the event of fails at sampling level, you will need to decide on a series of actions to be taken to improve the quality.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Secondary with school-leaving examination
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Language skills

Polish - Proficiency (C2)

Personality requirements and skills

- Native level speaker of Polish
- Minimum 1 - 2 years in the ecommerce/localization industry.
- Writing/editing experience, preferably in e-commerce content development
- Degree in Translation/Linguistics/Computational linguistics desirable
- Working knowledge of Translation Memory software and translation processes

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Brief description of the company

Our mission is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.Collectively, the Expedia brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive. The Expedia portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to nearly 140,000 hotels and hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners. Please visit company website to learn more about our travel brands.
ID: 3200613  Megjelentetés dátuma: 29.9.2017