Language Specialist

IW Group is the leading multicultural advertising and marketing agency with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. Named

IW Group is the leading multicultural advertising and marketing agency with offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York. Named Ad Age’s 2025 Multicultural Agency of the Year and recognized by PRWeek for Best in Multicultural Marketing, IW Group produces culture-shaping campaigns for global and national brands. IW Group drives impactful work by blending storytelling, cultural insight, and innovation to achieve measurable results.

We represent multiple brands and deliver distinctive multicultural and cross-generational campaigns.

IW Group is seeking experienced bilingual language professionals to translate, adapt, proofread, and refine English-language marketing content for culturally specific audiences. This is not a word-for-word translation role. The ideal candidate can preserve the original strategy and intent while adapting copy so that it feels natural, persuasive, culturally authentic, and appropriate for the intended audience. The specialist will work across written and spoken content, reviewing translations created by both human translators and AI-enabled tools.

They will also review human-recorded and AI-generated audio and provide live language and performance coaching during voice-over recording sessions.

• Translate and adapt English advertising, social media, digital, video, and audio copy into

• Transcreate dialogue, calls to action, humor, slang, and culturally specific references

• Proofread and refine human- and AI-generated translations for accuracy, grammar,

• Ensure that adapted copy preserves the original message, tone, strategy, and marketing

• Review human-recorded and AI-generated voice tracks for pronunciation, pacing,

• Attend voice-over recording sessions and provide live language, pronunciation, and

• Make real-time script adjustments when translated dialogue sounds unnatural, does not

• Identify terminology, localization, cultural, and stylistic issues and recommend clear

• Collaborate with creative, production, account, and post-production teams to maintain

• Deliver accurate work under fast-paced production timelines and quick-turnaround

Native or near-native fluency in English and at least one of the designated target languages:

• Mandarin, with proficiency in written Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
• Cantonese, with proficiency in written Traditional Chinese
• Korean
• Tagalog/Taglish
• Vietnamese
• At least two years of professional experience in translation, transcreation,

• Demonstrated ability to adapt marketing copy rather than translate it literally.
• Strong understanding of cultural nuances, idioms, slang, generational language, and

• A strong ear for pronunciation, vocal delivery, pacing, tone, and natural spoken

• Ability to provide clear, constructive coaching to voice-over talent.
• Ability to make accurate language and script changes in real time during recording

• Exceptional attention to detail and the ability to work independently under tight

• Experience adapting copy for advertising, entertainment, social media, or consumer

• Experience reviewing synthetic speech, AI-generated…