English to German; Switzerland) Review Lead UI, Marketing & Product Content

Description:

• Interpret client quality standards across UI, marketing, informational, legal, product, and support content.
• Review style guide and glossary updates, assess their impact, and track client corrections and calibration decisions.
• Lead alignment round tables and publish monthly quality reports covering performance, improvement priorities, updates, errors, and arbitration outcomes.
• Coach Reviewers through one-to-one feedback, shadowing sessions, and training based on alignment data.
• Develop evidence-based style guide proposals from recurring error and justification patterns.
• Maintain alignment with the client’s Language Manager, including clarifications, escalations, and expectation tracking.
• Own the locale’s review service score, RQE audit and alignment performance, shared quality standards, and arbitration record integrity.
• Share cross-locale quality patterns with the Welocalize Quality Manager.

Requirements:

• 3-5+ years of experience in Localization Quality Assurance, Senior Language Lead, or Quality Governance roles.
• Direct experience managing client Language Managers, arbitration or escalation processes, and conflict resolution.
• Deep practical knowledge of localization evaluation frameworks, including RQE, LQE, error rubrics, and severity mapping.
• Ability to analyze style guide changes, identify implicit client expectations, and map quality tolerance by content type.
• Experience facilitating coaching sessions, shadowing, alignment round tables, and structured quality reporting.
• Strong analytical skills in tracking error concentrations, severity drift, and alignment scores.
• Native-level German (Switzerland) and professional-level English.
• Experience supporting major technology localization programs and using calibration or alignment tools is preferred.
• Must be physically located in one of the approved countries and complete a background check.

Benefits:

• Remote freelance/independent contract with approximately 24 hours of work per month.
• Long-term partnership with global teams working on high-visibility products.
• Steady project volume.
• Comprehensive onboarding and ongoing training.
• Access to established linguistic resources.
• Dedicated device provided for project work.