Senior Hindi Linguist

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job Overview
As a Senior linguist, your main role will be to copy-edit, proofread & transcreate marketing content between English and Hindi, ensuring that original meaning is conveyed in a clear and understandable manner for the targeted audience. You are expected to ensure that the integrity and purpose of the content is maintained. You should be able to understand the content applicability and be capable of creating error-free creative and marketing content. Occasionally, you may be required to translate/transcreate the content from scratch as well.
Content will include different types of texts like creative articles, presentation decks, voice over scripts, marketing materials etc.
You are expected to maintain an optimum level of creativity in the content, wherever required. A senior linguist should have a passion for language, a creative bend of mind and be able to differentiate if a text requires simple translation or transcreation. Strong communication skills and a positive attitude are desirable.

Main Duties

• Perform translation/transcreation/copy-edit/proof-reading (English to Hindi or vice-versa) in one or more translation tools
• Work on various types of content involving different levels of creativity, e.g. marketing, creative articles etc.
• Understand the project brief, target audience, and applicability of the text and translate/transcreate/copy-edit/proof-read accordingly
• Master the standard CAT tools and tools associated with translation work for internal clients (e.g. tools for creating queries or checking the live UI elements)
• Precisely follow the established process, e.g. always raise queries when there is a need to and flag the issue to relevant stakeholders
• Precisely follow the style guide and overall client requirements
• Improve based on the results of internal and external evaluation
• Keep track of personal error statistics and work on the weak spots
• Take part in the internal trainings and the ones organized by the client
• Participate in the error arbitration process
• Meet the productivity KPIs
• Take part in the internal quality meetings and the quality calls organized by the client for the whole team
• Constantly analyze own gaps and seek assistance from the management/language leads to help addressing them
• Deliver feedback to junior linguists and train them
• Evaluate quality of work of junior linguists

Requirements

• University degree, preferably in Translation/Applied Languages
• Fluency in English and Hindi
• 4 years' experience in creative localization or creative Hindi writing (like blogging, video script/voice over writing, writing for web portals/magazines/news papers, copy writing etc.)
• Ability to comprehend English to understand the meaning and use linguistic skills to translate/transcreate/copy-edit/proof-read as per client requirements
• Taste for error-free and grammatically correct Hindi
• Ability to identify and correct Hindi linguistic issues
• Familiarity with CAT tools and other localization services will be valued
• Strong communication skills
• Positive attitude
• Team player
• Open to feedback