EndereçoPlease submit your resume in English - we can only consider applications submitted in this language.
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience as a Brazilian Portuguese and English translator,
linguist, copywriter, writer, or editor. - Experience using data to identify trends, inform business-critical decisions, and tell a story from the data.
- Ability to communicate in Brazilian Portuguese and English fluently.
Preferred qualifications:
- MBA or Master's degree.
- Experience in program management.
- Experience in partner/stakeholder management while working with cross-functional teams and across time-zones.
- Ability to relate to ambiguity, work independently, and chart the direction of projects.
- Excellent communication/presentation skills.
- Demonstrable translation and linguistic skills.
About the job
Google is a universally recognized name. The Localization team helps Google's ideas and products look, feel and sound natural to users in their own countries. We collaborate with international Engineering, Product and Marketing teams to steer products through the localization process and ensure successful launches across the globe. Our team is an international collection of enthusiastic, creative and knowledgeable people who excel in a fast-paced, culturally diverse environment. You are an excellent communicator who plays a strategic role by building relationships with partner teams to establish needs, deadlines and budgets. You will flex your project management skills in order to ensure that our Localization process runs effectively and efficiently.
Google's mission is to make all of the world's information universally accessible and useful. We take that seriously for far more than just products in the English language. We want you to help us make
sure that Google is useful and fun for our international users.
As a Language Manager, you'll develop an understanding of market expectations for localization quality and how Google's products fit in the market. You will work with local teams to develop specific terminology for features and products. You will be building relationships with partner teams to establish needs, deadlines, and budgets.
Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and gTech’s role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill, product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers’ complex needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.
To learn more about gTech, check out our video.
Responsibilities
- Be a critical partner for stakeholders in Marketing, Product, and PR to enable native language experiences for Google’s products in Brazil. Understand market priorities, share updates on language strategy and localization services.
- Create and meaningfully evolve Brazilian Portuguese language guidelines (Style Guide, Terminology) and language strategy, taking into account input from users, stakeholders, and tech language industry trends.
- Ensure Google's translation and review vendors deliver high quality translations that align with Google’s language standards. Assess vendor metrics to identify issues/trends, use metrics to drive improvements.
- Develop an expert-level understanding of the region, user expectations for Brazilian Portuguese language quality, and how to use language to achieve market/user needs. Propose language studies and user insights to ever-improve this understanding.
- Identify opportunities to improve language quality, processes, drive initiatives at the language, and team level.
