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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 a 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 auditing, reviewing and assessing the quality of marketing translations, both vendor provided and machine translation. You will work with Program and Product Managers to define opportunities for optimizing the quality auditing processes and be the single threaded owner for translation quality for your language.
Key job responsibilities:
* Audit, review and bar raise quality of marketing content in American Spanish (es_US) language * Monitor external vendor and LLM quality and investigate quality variation, ensuring best in class marketing content in American Spanish language * Provide feedback and linguistic coaching to external vendors, train directly LLMs * Identify and pursue quality improvement and automation initiatives with other internal teams * 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 and LLM queries * Maintain Amazon Advertising brand and product localization standards
Basic qualifications
- C2/native level of American (es_US) or Mexican Spanish (es_MX) - Fluency of English (C1+) - Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Linguistics, Translation, Communications, or related field - 3+ years of experience in Localization/Translation/Editorial industry - Experience in Marketing, Translation, Copywriting and/or Proofreading - Experience using data and metrics to measure impact and define improvements - CAT tools knowledge - Computer literacy (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) - Attention to detail - Ability to work in a diverse team
Preferred qualifications
- Familiarity with online retail (e-commerce) and marketing - Demonstrable experience as a writer or content marketer - Excellent organization skills, and ability to manage multiple projects and responsibilities - Experience with LLM-powered translation - Experience in Project Management
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