Language Manager, Bengali - Facebook

Languages are key to our mission of bringing the world closer together. The Facebook family of apps is currently available in 100+ languages and we are adding many more. ~90% of people already use our products from outside of North America and we continue to expand internationally.

Excited? Come join a great team and help us to think local and scale global!

As Language Manager for the Bengali community, you will be involved in ensuring that we deliver a great user experience to our international audience through high quality translations. As we work closely with team members in remote offices and regional stakeholders, it is very important that the candidate be comfortable working with remote teams across different time zones.

Language Manager, Bengali Responsibilities

• Editing and/or translating high visibility product content and documents from English to Bangali

• Performing localization testing to identify linguistic and functional issues.

• Supervising and training external vendor translators to ensure the quality of the translation they deliver is as expected.

• Maintaining the localization glossaries and style guides, keeping them up to date and audience appropriate.

• Providing Translation Memory maintenance.

• Working closely with the in-country teams to deliver market appropriate translation.

• Collaborating with source content owners to ensure that language requirements from technical and linguistic perspectives are understood and supported.

• Supporting/Driving wider localization initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in English-to-Bangali translation and localization as the successful candidate will be required to review, translate and edit content and documents on our platform. Fluency in Bangali and Business proficiency in English is required.

• Experience with quality improvement, training and managing external vendors

• Knowledge with Bangali culture and trends to support market translation

• BA or equivalent in a similar field such as translation, linguistics, communications etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in localization of online and mobile products.

• Experience in localization project management.

• Familiarity with computer-aided translation tools.

• Familiarity with digital marketing

• . Cross-functional experience working with engineers and product teams

Location: Gurgaon, India | Singapore

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