Senior Linguist
Senior Linguist
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Job Responsibilities:
JOB OVERVIEW
As a Senior linguist your main role will be to copyedit and proofread transcreated and 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 errorfree 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. The role also requires familiarity with CAT tools and other localization services. Strong communication skills and a positive attitude are desirable.
The following is a nonexhaustive list of responsibilities and areas of ownership for this role:
MAIN DUTIES
- Perform translation/transcreation/copyedit/proofreading (English to Hindi or viceversa) 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/copyedit/proofread 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/copyedit/proofread as per client requirements
- Taste for errorfree and grammatically correct Hindi
- Ability to identify and correct Hindi linguistic issues
- Familiarity with CAT tools and other localization services
- Strong communication skills
- Positive attitude
- Team player
- Open to feedback
Additional Job Details:
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
