Lead Linguist with Hindi

Job Description

Star 7 India is seeking a highly skilled and experienced (5+ years) native Hindi Lead Linguist to oversee and manage all aspects of Hindi language translation and localization.

The successful candidate will have extensive linguistic experience in Hindi language translation with a particular focus on UI and documentation, an in-depth understanding of cultural nuances, excellent leadership, and decision-making skills.

The position will interact with other localization teams (onsite and offsite) as well as global engineering and QA teams.

The role

The Hindi Lead Linguist is responsible for leading their linguistic teams to deliver a natural, world-class user experience in their native language. In addition to translating and reviewing content, the Lead Translation Linguist provides linguistic leadership, stakeholder management, and coaching services to their translation teams.

The Lead Linguist establishes terminology and style parameters for their respective language, motivates a linguistic team and instils pride in the language, initiates and drives terminology decisions, is able to influence a positive outcome to terminology discussions and shows strong leadership skills with a passion for their language.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities :

Translation and Localization :

• Oversee and manage all Hindi translation projects, ensuring that translations align with brand tone, style guides, and target audience needs.
• Work closely with project managers, translators and other stakeholders as necessary to define project requirements and ensure they are then implemented accordingly within the workflow.
• Produces world class volume translated / reviewed / formatted files into target language in various Client formats.
• Achieves daily productivity targets for all production tasks e.g translation, review, bug management as per the standards and throughputs required.

Team Leadership :

Quality Assurance :

Cultural and Linguistic Expertise :

Project Management :

Continuous Improvement :

Required Skills and Qualifications

Education :

Bachelor’s degree in Translation, Linguistics, Communication, or related field / equivalent experience.

Experience :

Language Proficiency :

Technical Skills :

Personal Attributes :

Benefits

Location : Onsite in Hyderabad with possibility of remote work ( with occasional trips to Hyderabad)  after first year.

Salary :   Attractive

Start date : As soon as possible

Requirements