Localization Program Manager Job Description

Localization Program Manager Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Localization Program Manager to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive operations, marketing, and associated engineering teams to launch Assistant in new locales/languages;
  • review and prioritize query losses across key languages/locales, working with core team owner on standardized framework;
  • Monitoring Bug quality and follow up;
  • Provide day-to-day tracking of gaps and highlight those issues to PgM country launch managers;
  • Manage tasks in coordinating across different product areas and regional teams to ensure features are language and country-ready;
  • logging and tracking feature development for i18n across multiple feature teams, focusing on coordination with NLU and NLG teams;
  • Getting language/surface ready for launch;
  • Support creating better documentation around our processes & resources;
  • coordinating management of linguistic style guides;
  • Track the launches by surface/language.

Requirements:

  • Able to drive operations execution schedules;
  • 2-3 years in Program, Project management role within the tech industry or working with Product/Engineering organizations;
  • Working knowledge of industry standard localization tools;
  • Fluency in a non-English language is a plus;
  • AA/BA in Computer Science, Business Administration, General Engineer and/or related discipline;
  • 10+ years of production or program management at senior levels;
  • Must have and display strong written & verbal communication skills;
  • Experience working and comfortable/thrives with a certain amount of chaos / ambiguity and across time zones;
  • Ability to lead large scale technical, and cross functional programs to delivery;
  • Extremely proactive and willing to get their hands dirty;
  • Solid in-depth knowledge of internationalization and localization is a plus.