Portuguese Sports Localization Specialist – Football

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Review, localize, verify facts, translate, and customize sports-related content, primarily focusing on football, while following established writing style guides and protocols.

• Conduct market-specific research on local content, trends in products and terminology, as well as optimal localization practices tailored for the target audience in your market.

• Provide constructive feedback on written content.

• Collaborate with Welocalize’s localization team to tailor football-related content for audiences in the designated target market.

• Execute quality control for the English (US) to Japanese language pair.

⛳️ Requirements

• BS/BA degree and/or a minimum of 2 years of professional experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or copy-editing.

• In-depth knowledge of sports, with a strong emphasis on football.

• Experience in the translation and localization of multimedia content, including familiarity with machine translations and evaluations.

• Native-level fluency in Japanese.

• Exceptional grammar and writing capabilities in English.

• Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing proficiencies in Japanese.

• Solid practical knowledge of computers, mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets.

• Possession of a licensed version of MS Office applications (MUST).

🏝️ Benefits

• Reasonable accommodations may be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.