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International Product Manager at Google

Localization Coordinator at Google

Localization, Linguist / Translator at Google

Manager, Localization and Global Content at Google

Localization QA Engineers at Yahoo

Localization Project Management at Microsoft

Multilingual Coordinator at PayPal, Inc.

Localization Engineering Manager at PayPal, Inc.

Project Manager at ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.

Quality Manager at ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.

Resource Manager at ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.

Translators Positions Available at the United Nations

International Product Manager at Google

Position based in Mountain View, California.
Are you eager to do something with global impact? Google is looking for someone who will ensure that we have the best worldwide product offerings.

Job Description:
* Initiate new products and/or product enhancement projects to meet existing or anticipated market needs.
* Determine product specifications and document in a Product Requirements Document (PRD).
* Initiate and prioritize projects within engineering, track product development, and develop product launch plans.
* Engage closely with engineering team and assist in determining the best technical implementation methods as well as reasonable execution
schedule.
* Establish short and long term product goals and strategies.

Qualifications:
* Degree in Computer Science (MS or PhD a plus).
* Demonstrated experience in gathering and coalescing market needs and opportunities into a product vision.
* Academic concentration or work experience in computational linguistics, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, information retrieval preferred.

Sample Assignment:
* Search quality improvement across multiple languages.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com

Important: The subject field of your email must include International Product Manager - Mountain View.

Localization Coordinator at Google

Position based in Mountain View, California.
This person will be responsible for coordinating efficient, high quality translation and localization for a variety of Google sites and properties.
This person will be expected to:
* Coordinate translation through internal and external resources.
* Work with engineers and product managers to deliver Google's international site content and products on time and with high linguistic
quality.
* Develop and maintain terminology glossaries and language style guides.
* Recruit translators and manage relationships with them.
* Create and execute creative solutions to achieve goals.

Responsibilities:
This person will oversee Google's translation and localization support efforts for a variety of languages and products. Responsibilities will
include meeting product localization needs across multiple divisions and product lines.

Job/Skill Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree or foreign language equivalent in English, translation and/or a relevant technical field.
* 2+ years project management experience working in Localization industry preferred.
* Creative approach to achieve goals in a timely manner and with high quality.
* Individual initiative and follow through.
* Track record of managing multipart projects involving outside resources and meeting deadlines.
* Superb ability to speak/write/communicate in English.
* Proficiency in foreign language(s) is a big plus. Preference for Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, Korean, Dutch.
* Must demonstrate effective oral and written communication skills and the ability to work cooperatively with staff inside and outside the
department.
* Must be able to take responsibility for completion of a project with multiple parts and work collegially with other staffers to ensure projects
meet deadlines and budgets.
* Knowledge of online services and the Internet is essential.
* Knowledge of HTML, desktop publishing software and translation memories is a definite plus.
* Ability to work in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com

Important: The subject field of your email must include Localization Coordinator - Mountain View. If you recently graduated, please attach an unofficial transcript.

Localization, Linguist / Translator at Google

This is a temporary assignment at Google (through Payrolling.com) located in Mountain View, California.
Do you speak and write one of these languages at a native level of proficiency?
French
German
Japanese
Portuguese (Brazil)
Finnish
Polish
Chinese (simplified/traditional)
Italian
Spanish
Dutch
Swedish
Russian
Korean
Norwegian

Google's mission is to make the entire world's information universally accessible and useful. We take that seriously for far more than just English language products. Help us make sure that Google is crisp, useful and fun in the language you know best. We are looking for highly reliable and detail-oriented linguists as language reviewers for Google products.

Responsibilities:
* Edit and proofread translated material, such as UI, online help, marketing material and outbound communication.
* Assist in developing terminology for new features and products.
* Maintain product specific terminology and style guide.
* Perform linguistic QA.
* Assist with some quick-turnaround translations.

Knowledge and Skills Required:
* BA or equivalent in translation, your language of expertise or a related discipline, or relevant experience.
* Experience as a translator, linguist or writer in marketing, copy writing or advertising.
* Native-level language skills in a foreign language (see list above) and high level of proficiency in English.
* Strong marketing translation skills.
* Meticulous approach to instructions and strict adherence to deadlines.
* Detail oriented and quality focused.
* Ability to work independently as well as work cooperatively with other internal resources.
* Ability to resolve linguistic issues in a quick and smooth manner.

We may provide a short on-site training but you will do the majority of work
off-site.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com

Important: The subject field of your email must include Localization, Linguist / Translator - Mountain View. If you recently graduated, please attach an unofficial transcript.

Manager, Localization and Global Content at Google

Position based in Mountain View, California.
Google is a truly global product. We have interfaces in 101 languages; our advertising product, AdWords, in 41 languages. And we keep adding more content, products and languages all the time. We are looking for a talented, educated, smart, and creative person to take
responsibility for the processes, products, and quality of Google's fast-paced, highly leveraged localization processes and teams.

Do you understand how to take a thought or a product and make it look, feel, and sound right in another language - or 40 other languages?
Are you a strong manager of teams? Do you excel at creating scalable, clear, streamlined processes?
Do you have experience with content management and localization issues and philosophies? If so, perhaps this job is for you.

Responsibilities:
* Managing Google's localization team, including performance reviews, career planning and recruiting new talent as required to manage varying work load.
* Establishing the team as a center of expertise and excellence for the company and defining team direction based on current and emerging
organizational requirements.
* Project management, including resource allocation, capacity planning, scheduling and risk management.
* Leading the team in delivering updates to the site on schedule while achieving quality objectives.
* Budgeting and cost control for all localization processes and staff.
* Defining, implementing, and maintaining best-of-class processes, procedures, and tools that will assist with the localization of updates, new
features and site launches.
* Working closely with in-country Marketing Managers and US Product Management, Product Marketing, Project Management as well as development teams (engineering, design, and content) to ensure localization efforts for international releases are successful.
* Working with the Direction of International Products and others on strategic planning. Managing vendors, budget tracking and establishing,
tracking and analyzing production plus quality metrics.

Job/Skill Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree required; master's preferred. Ideal subjects of study: business, language, localization or translation.
* 5 - 10 years of management and / or localization experience.
* Experience with identifying architecture and infrastructure requirements to support increasing and evolving localization needs.
* Experience with vendor management, establishing budgets and tracking expenditure.
* Strong project planning and prioritization skills with knowledge of project management methods, practices and software.
* Excellent verbal / written communication and analytical skills and the ability to work well within a diverse, geographically distributed,
multicultural environment and with varying levels of management.
* Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast paced environment providing strong leadership skills and manage multiple
projects simultaneously.
* Experience in delivering globalization solutions desired.
* Experience in Translation Memory Tools, Content Management Systems is a plus.

For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII) or HTML version of your resume to jobs@google.com

Important: The subject field of your email must include Manager, Localization and Global Content - Mountain View.

Localization QA Engineers at Yahoo

Localization QA Engineers who are fluent in one of the following languages:

Bahasa Malay, Bahasa Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Polish.

Contract positions at Yahoo in Silicon Valley, California. Rate ~40 hr w2

Job Description:
Software Quality Assurance (L10n) Our clients Mail QA charter is a high quality product for local and international sites. We are looking for experienced web savvy, talented, highly motivated, quality, process and success-oriented QA engineers to join our QA team on a short term assignment.

Responsibilities:
Providing Quality Assurance for international features and for testing internationalized and localized software for our Mail products. This will include the creation of new test suites as well as maintenance of existing suits, execution of test suites, problem research and reporting. The QA Engineers take part in the automation of test suites. The individual must have a combination of solid in-depth knowledge of l10n QA, QA’s goals, working with QA and non-QA groups, and extensive background in solid test coverage of complex international commercial Enterprise Web-applications and 24x7 production environments. This will include the creation of test suites and test harness, defining test plans and test specifications. The successful candidate would also be responsible for setting up the processes required to promote the overall quality of the product. The individual needs to drive and take full ownership for end-customer satisfaction.

Skills Required:
BA/BS Computer Science or equivalent work experience
Expert in l10n QA
Experience in double-byte software testing is a plus
Fluent in at least one of the following languages: Bahasa Malay, Bahasa Indonesian, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Polish
Good communication skills in English
Knowledge of software development life cycle
Expert in Windows platforms
3 years of outstanding track record as l10n QA engineer skills
Develop Test Plans, Process, Strategy, Verbal and Written Skills, Windows OS

Additional Skills Desired:
White box testing experience
Mac OS Experience
Working experience in the international market
Working experience in the l10n and i18n development process

Contact:
Gina Scoralle
Chief Technical Recruiter
COL Search
6130 Stoneridge Mall Road Suite 105
Pleasanton, CA 94588
Yahoo IM ginascoralle
Phone: 925-734-1944 x113
Fax: 925-734-1939
Work Email: gina@colsearch.com
Alternate: ginascoralle@yahoo.com

Localization Project Management at Microsoft

The Microsoft Office family of products is one of the most dynamic and innovative in the industry. We're growing our server products at a fantastic rate and we are seeking a dynamic and passionate Localization Program Manager (LPM) to lead the Office Server Group Piloting Team (SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services, FrontPage, and Project). How would you like to contribute to define and execute the localizability strategy for one of the most influential and well-known product lines in the world?

Your responsibilities would include:

*Leading a team of 5 SLEs and 2 LPMs, assisting them in their daily responsibilities and helping them setting their goals and objectives for professional growth. *Applying pseudo localization to identify localizability and globalization issues. Working with core product teams to ensure that product meets globalization and localizability standards. Contribute to creating and implanting team strategies to improve localizability and streamline the localization process.

*Supporting the worldwide localization of the Office server products

Qualifications should include: Strong management and leadership experience. Demonstrated experience working through full commercial software product cycles from initial design to final delivery. Excellent English written and verbal communication skills. Customer focus and strong organizational skills are a must. Ability to work independently, learn quickly, prioritize tasks, meet deadlines and solve problems required. Knowledge of SQL Server and web site development experience (ASP, XML, .Net framework) preferred. A BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or equivalent work experience preferred.

Candidates must be willing to relocate to the Redmond, Washington area.

If intrigued and interested, please forward resume as an attachment to:

a-emcph@microsoft.com

Microsoft is an Equal Opportunity Employer and supports workplace diversity.

Multilingual Coordinator at PayPal, Inc.

Job Description/Areas of Responsibility: Paypal is looking for a Multilingual Coordinator to assist with the project coordination and quality checking of high volume localization projects. The coordinator is responsible for multilingual glossary management, preparing style guides and instructions, interfacing with translators and agencies, as well as update and review of translation memories. This person will not be spending a large amount of time doing translation, however, will need to utilizing their experience with translation editing and translation memory.

Education and/or Relevant Experience: The ideal candidate will have a minimum of two years of experience in the translation field performing the tasks listed above. Knowledge of and experience with the used of language automation tools, specifically translation memory and terminology management, a strong technical aptitude, and prior experience with the localization of web applications especially in the financial space are highly desirable.

To be considered for this position, you MUST have fluency in English plus at least TWO of the following languages: French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and German.

To apply: Please email your resume to engineeringjobs@paypal.com with “Multilingual Coordinator” in the subject line.

Localization Engineering Manager at PayPal, Inc.

Responsibilities: First line manager for the Localization team which is responsible for the localization of frequent updates to the application software and Web site, with the goal of simultaneously releasing to PayPal's international sites worldwide. Responsibilities include but are not limited to: Managing a multi-functional production team of 5+ direct reports, including performance reviews, compensation, career planning and recruiting new talent as required to manage varying work load. Establishing the team as a center of expertise and excellence for the company and defining team direction based on current and emerging organizational requirements. Project management, including resource allocation, capacity planning, scheduling and risk management. Leading the team in delivering updates to the site on schedule while achieving quality objectives. Defining, implementing, and maintaining best-of-class processes, procedures, and tools that will assist with the localization of updates, new features and site launches. Working closely with in-country and US Product Management, Product Marketing, Project Management as well as development teams (engineering, design, and content) and Release management to ensure localization efforts for international releases are successful. Working with the VP of International Expansion and others on strategic planning. Managing vendors, budget tracking and establishing, tracking and analyzing production plus quality metrics.

Experience/Skills: BS/BA in CS and/or 5+ years of localization engineering experience. 3-5+ years proven leadership experience managing localization engineers and/or multifunctional team. Technical understanding of PayPal technologies such as C++, XML and HTML. Experience with identifying architecture and infrastructure requirements to support increasing and evolving localization needs. Experience with vendor management, establishing budgets and tracking expenditure. Strong project planning and prioritization experience with knowledge of project management methods, practices and software. Excellent verbal / written communication and analytical skills and the ability to work well within a diverse, geographically distributed, multicultural environment and with varying levels of management. Ability to thrive under pressure and function effectively in a fast paced environment providing strong leadership skills and manage multiple projects simultaneously. Experience in delivering globalization solutions desired. 

To apply for this position please send your resume to: engineeringjobs@paypal.com . Please put "Localization Engineering Manager" in the subject line.

Project Manager at ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.

As a ForeignExchange Project Manager, you will have the opportunity to:

• be focused on client satisfaction
• help build the company by improving service-delivery processes, relationships, and technologies
• be a leader
• innovate and to contribute to process improvements
• be flexible about the content of your work (you may be asked to do production work in addition to traditional project management tasks)

The Project Manager is a key person at ForeignExchange. In this important role, you will have overall responsibility for supervising all phases of assigned projects, including:

• management of quality, costs, and schedule
• interface and coordinate with sales, clients, linguistic, engineering and DTP team members
• provide input to presales planning/resourcing and estimating of projects

We offer a competitive compensation package, including health benefits, an anything-goes dress code, training, and the opportunity to make a real difference.

Please submit cover letter, salary requirements, and résumé to:

Human Resource Manager
ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.
fax: +1.303.926.7123
co-careers@fxtrans.com

Quality Manager at ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.

The Quality manager is responsible for ensuring that appropriate service-delivery procedures exist and are applied consistently.

This is a senior position within ForeignExchange. As a professional with several years of industry experience, you will have the opportunity to:

• Efficiently maintain operations procedures across the company.
• Provide feedback to, and ensure accountability of, staff and vendors on non-conformances.
• Oversee CAPA system.
• Track project-specific non-conformances and resolutions.
• Personally perform project QA steps.
• Tracking and reporting on company-wide quality metrics.

As Quality manager, you will interact will all departments and groups. In addition, you will be in regular contacts with key client accounts as well as freelance subcontractors. Excellent communication skills are a must-have. Past experience in a QA/QS role is also essential.

ForeignExchange is looking for a dynamic and friendly individual who wants to make a difference in the localization industry. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.

Please submit cover letter, salary requirements, and résumé to:

Human Resource Manager
ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.
fax: +1.303.926.7123
co-careers@fxtrans.com

Resource Manager at ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.

As Resource manager, you are responsible for scheduling and negotiating linguistic and desktop publishing vendors.

This is a central position within ForeignExchange's operations group. To succeed in this position, you will need to work highly efficiently, possess a thorough understanding of the translation industry, and have excellent communication skills.

As a professional with several years of industry experience, you will have the opportunity to:

• Aggressively negotiate vendor rates
• Schedule resources across assignments and manage overall vendor staffing levels
• Work closely with Vendor recruiters, Project managers, and Sales managers
• Track vendor rate metrics

As Resource manager, you will support the rest of the operations team and have an opportunity to use your strong negotiation skills to build win-win solutions with vendors.

ForeignExchange offers a dynamic and fun growth environment. Compensation is incentive-driven and includes a comprehensive benefits package.

Please submit cover letter, salary requirements, and résumé to:

Human Resource Manager
ForeignExchange Translations, Inc.
fax: +1.303.926.7123
co-careers@fxtrans.com

Translators Positions Available at the United Nations

The United Nations is pleased to announce competitive examinations for the recruitment of French and Spanish language translators/ précis-writers. The examinations will take place on 5 September (French) and 8 September (Spanish) 2003 in New York, Geneva, Vienna, Paris, Madrid and other locations according to the number and location of qualified candidates convoked to the examination.

The purpose of this examination is to establish rosters from which present and future vacancies in the French and Spanish translation sections will be filled.

Further information and the application form can be obtained at:

http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/examin/exam.htm

Claudia Lassing
Examinations Officer
Examinations and Tests Section
Office of Human Resources Management
United Nations New York
Fax (212) 963 3683
Email: OHRM_exam@un.org

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