Senior Localization Team Lead

Role Description

Hostinger reaches 4 million+ clients across 150 countries. Localization isn’t a translation pipeline anymore, but a growth lever. At this scale, every market requires precision, cultural depth and a team that can execute at speed - we need someone to own it.

As Senior Localization Team Lead, you’ll:

• Coach a big team of in-house specialists.
• Manage an on-demand freelancer network.
• Help shape how Hostinger communicates in every market it enters.
• Navigate changes and run performance conversations grounded in quality data and growth perspectives.

This is a people-first, strategy-forward role: high ownership, high autonomy, real impact on how millions of people experience Hostinger.

Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Lead, coach and develop a team of Localization Specialists, creating an environment of psychological safety, ownership and continuous growth through regular feedback, performance conversations and data-driven quality improvements.
• Manage and scale our external freelancer network, owning the full lifecycle from sourcing and onboarding to quality standards, communication and offboarding.
• Translate business goals into localization execution plans, bringing market insights into planning and acting as the bridge between Localization Specialists and Localization Project Managers.
• Validate strategic priorities against real team capacity and market realities, ensuring plans are both ambitious and operationally feasible.
• Take ownership of complex localization challenges without established playbooks, including new market launches, AI-human review models and other strategic initiatives.
• Identify recurring quality and delivery issues, uncover root causes and implement sustainable process improvements together with cross-functional partners.
• Investigate performance anomalies, drive resolutions end-to-end and protect the team from unnecessary operational noise.
• Evaluate, pilot and implement AI and localization technologies, partnering with language owners to build feedback loops that improve quality, efficiency and localization outcomes across all markets.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in localization, with at least 3 in a leadership role managing in-house linguists.
• Hands-on background as a translator, editor or proofreader.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating freelancers or external contributors across multiple markets.
• Strong analytical instincts: ability to read quality scores, OKR trends, and delivery data.
• Business-first minded: connects localization work to business outcomes.
• Fluent in the language of cross-functional stakeholders: Marketing, Product, Engineering.
• Proficient with core localization tooling: CAT tools, project management systems and AI platforms (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude).

Requirements

• Experience coordinating freelancers or external contributors across multiple markets.
• Experience with AI search readiness: structured data, entity optimization, or AI crawler monitoring.
• Familiarity with SurferSEO, Accuranker or localization-adjacent SEO tools.
• Background working in or alongside high-growth, multi-locale product companies.

Benefits

• 360 Growth: Limitless learning opportunities, access to platforms like Reforge and CoachHub, global conferences, feedback culture, digital libraries, and industry-leading subscriptions.
• Freedom & responsibility: Work on your terms, whether from home or anywhere in the world, with a home office budget.
• Wellness simplified: Company-provided sick days, 20 paid suspension days, Headspace subscriptions, and recharge leave.
• Work hard - play hard: Celebrate achievements with company events, team-building experiences, and milestone gifts.