Senior Writer

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

📋 Description

• Supervise Junior Writers who edit and enhance AI-adapted Spanish scripts.

• Evaluate scripts for grammar, spelling, accents, punctuation, register, fluency, and adherence to the English source material.

• Detect mistranslations, awkward expressions, omitted lines, tonal inconsistencies, incorrect emotion tags, and continuity errors.

• Adapt scripts for AI voice compatibility through formatting, speaker labels, emotion tags, punctuation, and names/terms ready for pronunciation.

• Amend scripts or return them with detailed notes and provide final production approval.

• Monitor writer performance using error rates, types of errors, and levels of rework.

• Deliver constructive feedback and conduct onboarding, calibration, and refresher training sessions.

• Establish and uphold proofreading standards, style guides, and quality assurance checklists.

• Determine regional Spanish usage and tone for each show while addressing edge cases and escalations.

• Manage editorial quality from pre-editorial planning through to post-release review across up to six shows.

• Approve localization sheets and concept notes while ensuring continuity across episodes and seasons.

• Oversee editorial retakes and identify root causes behind editorial challenges.

• Track user feedback and ratings, prioritize recurring language issues, and convert feedback into actionable improvements.

• Collaborate with the AI team to address recurring editorial challenges, modify prompts, create glossaries, and set localization rules and formatting standards.

• Evaluate new tools and workflows on live shows and convey any changes to Junior Writers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Native or near-native proficiency in Spanish with exceptional grammar, spelling, and editorial judgment.

• Strong comprehension of English to verify scripts against the original source.

• Demonstrated experience in proofreading, editing, or translation review, with the endurance for high-volume workloads.

• Experience in leading, mentoring, or coaching proofreaders, editors, or writers.

• Ability to spot linguistic, contextual, and continuity errors and teach others to recognize them.

• Bachelor's degree in Literature, Languages, Translation, Creative Writing, Media, Communications, or a related discipline.

• Ability to analyze user feedback and translate recurring issues into actionable strategies.

• Experience in managing quality escalations and identifying root causes.

• Capacity to provide technical or AI teams with clear, examples-based feedback.

• Strong organizational skills across multiple shows, teams, and daily deadlines.

• Effective communication skills and the ability to collaborate with business and cross-functional teams.

• Practical experience with AI writing, translation, or adaptation tools.

• Background in creating style guides, quality assurance checklists, or review frameworks.

• Experience in tracking error rates, retake rates, or feedback patterns.

• Understanding of narrative structure, pacing, and audience engagement.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work arrangement.

• Contractual position.

• Chance to lead and mentor Junior Writers.

• Access to AI-assisted adaptation tools and evolving workflows.

• Opportunity to influence prompt changes, glossaries, localization rules, and formatting standards.

• Experience testing new tools, prompts, and workflows on live shows.

• Work within a global audio entertainment platform that produces immersive serialized stories.