French Translator

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6 Locations
In-Office or Remote
Mid level
Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing
The Role
Translate marketing, help, UI, and regulated content from English into French using CAT and localization tools. Follow client style guides, workflows, and quality standards while meeting productivity, quality, and delivery KPIs. Support copy editing, query management, quality reviews, error arbitration, training, and continuous improvement. Collaborate effectively with clients, reviewers, senior linguists, and virtual teams.
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Job Responsibilities:

The role focuses on delivering high-quality translations across various content types using standard CAT tools and adhering strictly to client-specific guidelines and processes. It involves continuous quality improvement through feedback, training, and collaboration, while meeting key performance indicators in productivity, quality, and timeliness.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:

  • Perform translations in various translation tools for assigned clients and projects
  • Translate various types of content, e.g. marketing, help, UI, or regulated content
  • Support the team with copy-edit tasks on selected content types
  • Master the standard CAT tools and tools associated with translation work for internal clients (e.g.  tools for creating queries or checking the live UI elements)
  • Precisely follow the established translation process, e.g. always raise queries when there is a need to
  • Precisely follow the style guide and overall client requirements
  • Improve based on the corrections made by senior team members as well as the client reviewers
  • Keep track of personal error statistics and work on the weak spots
  • Take part in the internal trainings and the ones organized by the clients
  • Participate in the error arbitration process
  • Meet the KPIs in terms of productivity, on time delivery and quality
  • Take part in the internal quality meetings and the quality calls organized by the client for the whole team
  • Constantly analyze own gaps and think of what assistance the senior members can provide to help address those
  • Meet the goals set by the team manager

Additional Job Details:

REQUIREMENTS


Education Level

  • University degree in Translation/Applied Languages/Linguistic Studies or equivalent combination of education and experience (University degree in other fields plus 2 years of full time experience in translation; OR 5 years of full time professional experience in translating)

Experience and Skills

  • Native fluency in French (France)
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken
  • 2-4 years of experience in translation/localization/editing or content writing
  • Good understanding of the localization process
  • Good user experience of standard software, such as Windows and Office applications
  • Good user experience of standard CAT tools, e.g. XTM, SDL Studio and issue tracking and query management tools, e.g. JIRA
  • Ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly
  • Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work with tight deadlines
  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, linguists
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in
  • Ability to work within a virtual team
  • Fast learner, motivated, versatile

Skills Required

  • University degree in Translation, Applied Languages, Linguistic Studies, or equivalent education and experience
  • Native fluency in French (France)
  • Fluency in written and spoken English
  • 2–4 years of experience in translation, localization, editing, or content writing
  • Good understanding of the localization process
  • Experience with Windows and Microsoft Office applications
  • Experience with CAT tools such as XTM and SDL Studio
  • Experience with issue tracking and query management tools such as JIRA
  • Ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly
  • Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to work with tight deadlines
  • Ability to present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and linguists
  • Ability to solve practical problems and work with varied concrete variables
  • Ability to work within a virtual team
  • Fast learner, motivated, and versatile
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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
2,331 Employees
Year Founded: 1997

What We Do

Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 250,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our people work across offices in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. • Global team of 2,100+ • Offices in North America, Europe and Asia • Quality Certifications: ISO 9001:2015, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO 17100:2015, ISO 13485:2016, ISO 18587:2017 • Accredited professional translators and interpreters for 250+ languages www.welocalize.com

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