Language Quality Specialist (German)

Job description

DESCRIPTION

When done correctly, advertising allows customers to discover new products they love and brands to find new customers. Revenues generated from advertising allow us to decrease costs for our customers: save $20 when you buy a Kindle with ads customized for you. It's a win for our customers, a win for our advertisers and a win for Amazon. Amazon is investing heavily in building a world class advertising business and we are responsible for defining and delivering a collection of self-service performance advertising products that drive discovery and sales.

Over the years, Amazon has invested heavily in removing geographic barriers for its suppliers and helped them sell regionally or in some cases even globally. We intend to do the same for advertisers. Our mission is to build a world class Ads Localization program that removes language related barriers from advertising and help suppliers reach a global audience at scale. This will be one of a kind localization program that will use best in class machine translation technology and combine it with intelligence from human translators to deliver highest quality marketing translations. As a language quality specialist on this team, you will be responsible for auditing, reviewing and assessing the quality of marketing translations, both vendor provided and machine translation. You will work with Program and Product Managers to determine opportunities for optimizing the quality auditing processes and be the single threaded owner for translation quality for your language.
Responsibilities
· Audit, review and bar raise quality of marketing content in your native language
· Monitor external vendor quality and investigate quality variation, ensuring best in class marketing content in your native language
· Provide feedback and linguistic coaching to external vendors
· Identify and pursue quality improvement initiatives in collaboration with other internal teams
· Responsible for and manage language quality and maintenance of associated assets
· Create and maintain glossaries, style guides, and translation memories for assigned languages
· Take part in vendor arbitration discussions and act as a linguistic consultant for vendor queries
Maintain Amazon Advertising brand and product localization standards

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, English, Communications, or a related field
• Demonstrable experience as a writer or content marketer
• CAT tool knowledge

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

Basic Qualifications
• Native speaker of target language (German)
• C2 level in English
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and native language
• 3+ years of marketing / marketing localization experience
• Experience in translation, copywriting and proofreading
• Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and determine improvements
• Experience using Microsoft Excel to manipulate and analyze data
• Attention to detail
• Excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects and responsibilities