Thai Linguist

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Tokyo, JPN
In-Office
Mid level
Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing
The Role
Manages Thai translation, copy-editing, and localization quality for assigned projects. Maintains glossaries, style guides, and work instructions; resolves terminology questions; coordinates freelancers and vendors; supports clients and internal teams; trains linguists; tests language resources; improves workflows; and meets productivity, quality, and delivery KPIs.
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Job Responsibilities:

This role involves managing translation and copy-editing tasks, ensuring high-quality linguistic deliverables for assigned projects or accounts. Responsibilities include coordinating with freelancers and agencies, maintaining language resources, resolving terminology queries, and collaborating with clients and internal teams to enhance workflow efficiency.

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

  • Performing copy-edit tasks on assigned projects or accounts
  • Performing on-demand translation tasks
  • Performing lead support on assigned projects or accounts
  • Managing and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date as required by the account or project
  • Managing project-related queries
  • Ensuring good interaction among team members and resolving questions on terminology and language matters
  • Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required
  • Developing and training of internal linguists and external partners according to the accounts’ and Welocalize’s needs
  • Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required
  • Participating in the development of new and improved working processes
  • Meet or exceed the KPIs in terms of productivity, on time delivery, quality
  • Achieving 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 

  • Native fluency in TARGET language
  • Fluency in English, both written and spoken, in a variety of registers
  • 4+ years of experience in translation/localization/editing or content writing
  • 2+ years of review experience
  • Thorough 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
  • Excellent knowledge of terminology used in two or more subject matters
  • Ability to work with tight deadlines
  • Ability to give clear, concise and constructive feedback
  • 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 situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
  • Ability and willingness to train/teach others and pass on knowledge
  • Ability, willingness and experience in communicating positively with customers at various levels
  • Ability to work within a virtual team

Skills Required

  • University degree in Translation, Applied Languages, Linguistic Studies, or equivalent experience
  • Native fluency in the target language
  • Fluency in English, written and spoken
  • 4 or more years of experience in translation, localization, editing, or content writing
  • 2 or more years of review experience
  • Thorough understanding of the localization process
  • Experience with Windows and Microsoft Office applications
  • Experience with CAT tools such as XTM or 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
  • Excellent knowledge of terminology in two or more subject matters
  • Ability to work under tight deadlines
  • Ability to provide clear, concise, and constructive feedback
  • Ability to present information and respond to questions from managers, clients, customers, and linguists
  • Ability to solve practical problems with limited standardization
  • Ability to interpret written, oral, diagrammatic, or scheduled instructions
  • Ability and willingness to train or teach others
  • Experience communicating positively with customers at various levels
  • Ability to work effectively within a virtual team
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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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