Responsibilities
- Develop a good understanding of market expectations for localization quality and how our products fit in the market, and create language strategy to enable native language experience to users.
- Form a critical part of the Google in-country “go-to-market” team with Marketing, Product and PR to drive localization of our products. Work closely with local teams to develop specific terminology for new features and products, and shape the Google voice for the local market.
- Work with localization program managers and other teams to identify and address linguistic issues. Maintain linguistic guidelines and references such as terminology databases and the style guide.
- Understand challenges in the localization process and lead broad language quality improvement initiatives at the language and team level, as well as upstream.
Minimum qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience as a business leader, project manager or team leader.
- Experience as a Tamil translator, linguist, copywriter, writer or editor.
- Ability to speak and write in Tamil and English fluently.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience within the creative, localization, journalism, public communications or the online marketing/advertising industry.
- Developed translation and linguistic skills. Effective communication/presentation skills.
- Solid translation and linguistic skills.
- Ability to relate to ambiguity, work independently and be able to chart direction of projects.
- Ability to manage multiple and diverse stakeholders across businesses and leadership levels.
- Detail-oriented, quality-focused and proactive, with the ability to manage projects.
Location
- Hyderabad, Telangana, India
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Gurugram, Haryana, India
