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Translation Coordinator
Pride Global
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- 23 hours ago
- Jira
- Adobe Creative Suite
- LPN
- Pension
23 hours ago
Russell Tobinis partnering with a leading biotechnology and life sciencesorganization to identify a Translation Project Coordinatorfor an opportunity near South San Francisco, CA.
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Additional Details:
- Location model:South San Francisco, CA
- Position Type: 12 month contract with potential to extend
- Pay range approved: $45/hr - $55/hr, depending on experience
- Shift: Standard schedule; no non-standard shifts required
Responsibilities:
- Receive, review, and process translation requests from internal content owners.
- Prepare source files and reference materials for translation, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and completeness.
- Coordinate communications between translation vendors, linguists, internal stakeholders, and content owners to resolve questions and clarify project requirements.
- Collaborate with internal linguistic reviewers to collect translation feedback and communicate required revisions to vendors.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, track deliverables, allocate resources, and ensure deadlines are met across multiple concurrent projects.
- Monitor project progress, communicate status updates, identify potential delays, and escalate resource or priority conflicts as needed.
- Coordinate the submission of translated materials for regulatory review and approval, ensuring compliance with applicable guidelines and requirements.
- Partner with translation vendors to ensure accurate, consistent, and culturally appropriate localized content.
- Support the development and maintenance of linguistic assets, including translation memories, glossaries, terminology databases, and style guides.
- Maintain accurate project documentation, records, and decisions related to translation and localization activities.
- Track and report key performance indicators, including turnaround times, translation quality, and vendor performance.
- Analyze project performance and recommend improvements to translation workflows, efficiency, and quality.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address challenges, manage changing requirements, and support continuous process improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Linguistics, Translation, Communications, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum of 4 years of professional experience managing translation projects, including coordinating timelines, resources, and deliverables.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal stakeholders and external vendors.
- Familiarity with translation quality management practices and linguistic assets, including translation memories, glossaries, terminology databases, and style guides.
- Experience coordinating linguistic review processes, collecting reviewer feedback, and communicating revisions to translation vendors.
- Familiarity with translation management systems (TMS) and localization workflows.
- Knowledge of industry-standard file formats and localization best practices for print, digital documents, multimedia, and web content.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Demonstrated problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to evolving project requirements and stakeholder expectations.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams while maintaining high standards for accuracy and quality.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience using JIRA or other project management tools to plan, track, and coordinate translation projects.
- Experience with Adobe Creative Suite and multimedia localization.
- Fluency in Spanish, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese.
- Proficiency in additional languages.
- Understanding of creative content design and localization best practices for bidirectional languages.
Key Competencies
- Translation and localization project coordination
- Vendor and stakeholder management
- Project scheduling and deadline management
- Linguistic quality assurance
- Translation management systems and localization tools
- KPI tracking, reporting, and data analysis
- Process optimization and continuous improvement
- Cross-functional communication and collaboration
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Russell Tobin is a professional recruitment and staffing advisory firm that connects job seekers and employers across various industries. We are a staffing arm of Pride Global. Affiliates include Russell Tobin, Pride health, Pride Now and Pride One.
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