Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong) Linguistic Lead Tester Onsite in Austin, TX

As a trusted global transformation partner, 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 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Job Reference: #LI-JG1

Job Description:

Welocalize is offering a unique opportunity for those who enjoy a combination of linguistic and technical work. We are seeking a Traditional Chinese (from Hong Kong) Lead Tester / Proofreader for a project in Austin, TX. We need your native level fluency skills combined with strong technical skills.

The Onsite Lead Tester is responsible for the overall quality of their language at an account level, as well as the main point of contact for Language Leads.

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

• Linguistic tasks

• Coordination of the linguistic team, like for example:

- Reviews copy and gives feedback to testers; communicates feedback received from the client

- Supports testers in understanding corrections resulting from the arbitration process

- Acts as liaison for terminology, style issues, product features & questions

- Supports the onboarding of new testers

- Identifies linguistic-specific training needs for the language; creates, maintains, and delivers the linguistic training program

• Quality management planning and execution

• Client engagement

• Linguistic assets management

Job requirements:

On-Site in Austin, TX

W-2 (eligible for benefits based on hours worked)

Monday-Friday (8:30 am - 4:30 pm -> with one hour of lunch in between -> 35 hours per week)

You must have a valid visa to work in the USA

Preferred backgrounds: Marketing, Journalism, Copy Editing, Proofreading, Writing, Translation and/or Localization

Benefits:

▪️ Accident, Critica lIllness, Hospital Indemnity Insurance

▪️ Telemedicine Benefit

▪️ Paid Sick Time

▪️ Paid Holiday: 2 days

▪️ Employee Assistance Program:

Following eligibility requirements (after 390 work hours):

▪️ Medical Insurance

▪️ Dental Insurance

▪️ Vision Insurance

▪️ FSA and HSA

▪️ Voluntary Life Insurance

▪️ 401(k) Retirement Plan after 1000 hours worked

Welocalize carefully considers a wide range of compensation variables, including geographic location, job scope and complexity, skill level, experience, and industry-specific knowledge. 

Hourly flat rate: $30

• Native-level fluency in their respective language (grammar, vocabulary, composition, punctuation)
• Fluency in English (written and spoken)
• The availability to work full time
• The ability, willingness and experience in communicating positively with customers at various levels
• The ability to give clear, concise and constructive feedback
• The ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients,
• customers, linguists
• The ability and willingness to train/teach others and pass on knowledge.