Senior Localization Lead

Job Purpose

As a Localization Lead, you’ll coordinate localization projects across multiple teams, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery. You’ll manage task distribution, troubleshoot issues, and maintain clear communication. The role involves working with localization technologies, creating documentation, and identifying process improvements to enhance efficiency.

About Transform

At RWS, we enable the world’s largest enterprises to communicate with global audiences through cutting-edge language technology, AI-driven solutions, and expert services. Our RWS Transform division empowers organizations to accelerate digital transformation, scale global content, and unlock growth in every market.

Key Responsibilities

• Close cooperation with project managers, other localization leads and engineers and other internal supporting teams
• Coordination of the localization projects such as distributing tasks to our external translators or colleagues, collecting final outputs, and solving issues
• Analyzing the processes and finding opportunities for potential improvement
• Communicating in English (especially via email)
• Getting to know the technologies used in localization (CAT tools, HTML/XML, etc.)
• Keeping track of your work, including creating reports
• Reporting to project manager and/or customers
• Solving problems and troubleshooting
• Creating instructions and documentation

Skills & Experience

• Great co-ordinational and organizational skills
• Strong understanding and ability to work with file formats and structures commonly used in localization (e.g. XLIFF, JSON, XML, HTML, etc.) is an advantage
• Ability to improvise and solve problems
• Proactivity and good communication skills
• At least a high school education; university degree is an advantage
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office; advanced knowledge of Excel is a plus
• Very good verbal and written English proficiency
• Attention to detail, because just a single mistake can change the outcome of our work
• Team spirit—you will be part of a team that helps each other
• Previous relevant work experience and knowledge of localization are a big advantage

Our purpose is to unlock global understanding. This means our work fundamentally recognizes the value of every language and culture. So, we celebrate difference, we are inclusive and believe that diversity makes us strong. We want every employee to grow as an individual and excel in their career. 

In return, we expect all our people to live by the values that unite us: to partner, putting clients fist and winning together, to pioneer, innovating fearlessly and leading with vision and courage, to progress, aiming high and growing through actions and to deliver, owning the outcome and building trust with our colleagues and clients.

RWS embraces DEI and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability, or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics. 

RWS Values 

Get the 3Ps right – Partner, Pioneer, Progress – and we´ll Deliver together as RWS.

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Holdings PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.