Russian Translator

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 77,000 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.

Main Purpose of the Role

Welocalize is looking for a Russian native speaker to perform translations from English into Russian from Russia, using various translation tools for our projects to translate various types of content, including marketing, help and UI.

Essential duties and responsibilities

- Learning the tools associated with translation work;

- Precisely following the established translation process, e.g. always raising queries when there is a need to;

- Learning the style guide and overall client’s requirements, e.g. stylistic preferences;

- Keeping track of personal error statistics and work on the weak spots;

- Taking part in the internal trainings and the ones organized by the client;

- Participating in the error arbitration process;

- Meeting the productivity KPIs;

- Taking part in the internal quality meetings and the quality calls organized by the client for the whole team;

- Constantly analyzing own gaps and thinking of what assistance the senior members and the client can provide to help address those.

Qualification and required skills

- University degree in Linguistics/Translation OR;

- University degree in other fields AND relevant translation experience;

- Fluent in English (both written and spoken, in a wide range of registers);

- Native fluency in Russian.