Language Manager, Italy (12-month Contract)

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work
Alongside our global campuses we also collaborate with talented contractors and freelancers from all over the world to help us achieve our crazy big goals. While we support flexible remote-friendly ways of working for this role were focusing on Milan so we can best support our teams and keep collaboration flowing.

About the Role/Specialty
If you join our team as a Language Manager youll bring your linguistic and cultural knowledge to all aspects of localisation ensuring our international users have the best possible Canva experience. Youll be the creative hub for all content in Italian and help advise on Canvas branding in that market.

What youll do 

• Working with the Country Localisation Lead to create Canvas voice across all parts of the Canva product in Italian.

• Translating key content and managing the relationship with our localisation partners for Italian

• Developing/updating a style guide and glossary

• Reviewing and evaluating translations

• Providing cultural insights and guidance

• Identifying key opportunities for localisation improvements in Italian

• Reviewing vendor translations 

• Assessing and sourcing new LSPs

• Answering linguistic questions

• Triaging results of scripted testing

After 6 months you will have established relationships with key stakeholders in marketing subscriptions content and localisation that will allow you to deploy your local expertise. Youll have created processes and channels for communicating best practices and completing internal requests such as copy-writing content review and translation guidelines.

What were looking for
Youre a natural at writing clear fun and engaging content. Youre passionate about languages and cultures and you understand how these can impact peoples experience of a product. Above all else you understand what our customers in Italy need in order to be able to understand and use Canva. 

Were looking for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit with a strong bias towards action and ownership. The team in Italy is small and there will be lots of opportunities to contribute beyond the scope of this specific role so we value energy and adaptability over specific experience or years of experience.

Also wed love it if you had the following but theyre not prerequisites!

• You have copy-writing experience you maintain a blog or even better you have experience in localisation for a SaaS product

• Youre an expert with CAT tools (experience with Smartling gets full marks) and other tools in the marketing tech stack (Braze Wordpress and of course Canva!)

• You showcase a solid understanding of organic growth (SEO)

• You have some design experience or familiarity with design tools

Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractor-accreditation interview process.

Please note that contractor-accreditation meetings are conducted virtually.

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Contract