Translation Specialist (EN-NL)

Amazon /Slovakia/ s.r.o.

Place of work
Bratislava, Slovakia (Job with occasional home office)
Contract type
full-time
Wage (gross)
From 1 900 EUR/month

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Are you looking to work in one of the most innovative and customer-centric businesses on earth? Does joining a multicultural team of Translation, Proofreading and Outsourcing Specialists sound appealing to you? Do you have a passion for learning and developing yourself and others? Then consider joining the Amazon Localization Team, and help us contribute to expanding product selection across international platforms.

Amazon is currently looking for a motivated and talented linguist to join our team as a EN to NL Translation Specialist.

The successful candidate will be well organized, independent professional passionate about delivering the right level of quality of translations (both machine-generated and human) to our customers. They must have the ability to communicate well with colleagues, external partners and other stakeholders and be able to provide a comprehensive structured feedback based on data and supported by sound knowledge of MQM processes and guidelines. They will be comfortable working in an international, fast-paced environment, where change and ambiguity are present as we constantly grow, improve, and innovate.

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Secondary with school-leaving examination
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education

Language skills

Dutch - Proficiency (C2) and English - Advanced (C1)

Personality requirements and skills

- Conduct quality checks by proofreading/reviewing linguistic work from freelancer translators, peers and other external vendors to ensure adherence to customer’s and company’s quality standards.
- Control and improve machine-translation engines’ quality by assessing output and providing linguistic feedback.
- Provide feedback and linguistic coaching to your peers, freelance translators and other external vendors and engage in quality improvement initiatives when needed.
- Post-edit machine-translated product detail pages in an efficient way to increase the product availability for the customer in their preferred language.
- Monitor external vendor quality progress, investigate quality variations and develop and implement measures to drive quality improvement in collaboration with other internal teams.
- Occasionally, provide manual translation during the launch phase of a new language combination
- Depending on the group’s needs and your own skills and inclinations, support our leadership, business and tech teams by taking an active part in training, project / program management, etc.

Advertiser

Brief description of the company

At Amazon.com, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on the Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and result driven people.

All open positions together with a job description and contact details can be found on www.amazon.jobs.

Number of employees

1000 and more employees
ID: 4236384  Termin der Veröffentlichung: 26.4.2022  Untergrenze des Gehalts (brutto): 1 900 EUR/month