18 December: fyi -- translation, Tokyo
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Position: Linguistic Quality Assurance Manager (Tokyo, Japan)
The Tokyo office of eTranslate, Inc. is seeking a Linguistic Quality
Assurance Manager to provide leadership and methodology to the
operation of the linguistic department in Japan. The QA Manager will
be responsible for pre-production linguistic analysis, assessment of
quality, linguistic department staffing, and communication with
clients, vendors and contractors. This challenging and exciting
position will be a key role in the development of our rapidly
expanding Tokyo operation.
Responsibilities:
* Organize and direct a Linguistic Quality Assurance Department,
including controlling and documenting in-house editors' quality
results, and managing staff requirements
* Ensure overall linguistic quality through process control, sampling,
and management of linguistic resources
* Communicate with clients, vendors and contractors on linguistic
issues at all stages of production including glossarization, prepping,
and post-production quality feedback
* Supervise all quality assurance procedures including prepping,
linguistic analysis, and approval of glossarizations
Qualifications:
* Academic background in Linguistics
* Minimum of 5 years experience in the translation industry
* Excellent management skills; proficient with MS Office; and
detail-oriented
* Excellent knowledge of the English and Japanese languages (oral and
written)
* Multicultural experience
* Live in the Tokyo area
About eTranslate:
eTranslate is a complete Internet solutions provider that helps
leading companies build international leadership and global
communications reach using digital-based technology and a worldwide
network of technical, linguistic and cultural professionals. Raising
the standards of the Web globalization industry, eTranslate works
seamlessly with companies to translate their Internet business model
into global markets. eTranslate GlobalWeb provides customized Web
services including globalization consultation, technical integration,
software engineering, professional language translation, and dynamic
content management.
eTranslate, Inc. is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in
Berlin, New York, Paris, Santiago, Sao Paulo, London, Belfast and
Tokyo.
More information can be found at http://www.etranslate.com.
Qualified candidates are invited to send their resume to
jobs-japan@etranslate.com
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