Localization Project Manager

Are you looking for a role on a team of fun, creative and passionate people who love their jobs and enjoy the freedom to innovate in the workplace?

Summa Linguae Technologies is a language and technology company that provides localization and data solutions. We help global companies make their products and services available in more languages, countries, and cultures across the globe. We have a diverse team of over 250 full-time team members working remotely or from one of our seven global locations—Canada, the USA, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, India, and our company headquarters in Poland.

The Role:
**Responsibilities**:

- Manage globalization/localization projects, including kick-off meetings, design review, translations, linguistic QA, bug scrub, validation, and post mortem.
- Consult on digital product requirements and UX designs by representing, implementing, and educating on localization/ globalization digital content best practices.
- Discover new project scope, gather requirements, create plan and schedule, identify risks.
- Coordinate schedules, LQA activities, including in-context UI testing, validation, bug resolution.
- Manage multiple simultaneous localization and translation-related projects for Commerce in the Cloud and Commerce Web Experiences, Digital App’s, and related digital assets.
- Maintain projects using industry best practices including, strategic implementation of TMS leverage, glossary maintenance, etc.
- Liaison with partners in Global markets to continually support an international team of linguists, language specialists, and brand partners.
- Manage Kanban board and project management workflow using JIRA.
- Qualifications_
- You have 3+ years localization experience in project management. Bonus if you have internationalization experience
- Good communicator in written and spoken English - you are able to clearly present the localization life-cycle to the client
- Able to successfully lead projects or individual tasks to completion without supervision
- Able to meet deadlines, work under pressure, and navigate ambiguity
- Able and equipped with necessary skills to attend discovery meetings with clients and gather all necessary information that is needed to successfully complete the project
- A strong team player in a multi-language/multi-cultural environment
- Interested in continuing learning and identifying new technologies and new tools
- Knowledge of translation and other tools (TMS, SDLX, JIRA, etc.) preferred
- Bonus Qualifications:_
- Bachelor's Degree (localization, business, linguistics, or with equivalent experience)
- Solid in-depth knowledge of internationalization and localization
- Knowledge of JIRA is a big plus

You are:

- A born leader - you have strong organizational and leadership skills
- Focused on quality work - you pay attention to details and can’t stand sloppy work
- Problem-solver - you are able to foresee potential problems ahead of time. You can figure out problems that rarely have textbook solutions. “Let me figure this out” is a sentence you use often.
- Positive — you have a “nothing is impossible attitude”. You believe that everything can be done
- Self-starter — you see a clear link between your actions and their outcomes. You don’t sit around and wait for others to tell you what to do
- Clever and fast — you understand things quickly and are not confused about simple things
- Resourceful — you have ahead with plenty of good ideas.
- Summa Linguae Technologies embraces a diverse and inclusive work environment and treats all collaborators with respect and equality. SLT’s culture seeks to create a safe and welcoming space where everyone can come to work as their authentic selves every day. We are committed to keeping diversity and inclusion top of mind in our work, which encourages every collaborator to add value to the organization._

Application Question(s):

- Are you able to work the hours of 8am-5pm PST Monday-Friday?