French Product Data Editor (Fixed-Term Opportunity)

Best Buy Canada

1d•Remote

About The Position

Are you a detail-oriented French language expert, passionate about product content, localization, and e-commerce in a fast-moving, AI-driven environment? In this role, you’ll ensure French product content is customer-ready and optimized for SEO and LLM, while helping evolve product translation and content workflows in a rapidly scaling, AI-enabled environment. You’ll collaborate closely with Product Data Management, Digital Retail and SEO teams to structure, validate, edit, and publish French product content (PDPs/SKUs), improve quality at scale, and support continuous optimization initiatives across BestBuy.ca. We practice a remote first working model, leveraging in person interactions at our head office, in beautiful Vancouver, BC, for strategic, collaborative, and social purposes.

Requirements

Language expertise: Native-level French proficiency with excellent grammar, syntax, and vocabulary; fluent in English.
Product & eCommerce focus: Strong attention to product detail, specifications, variants, and customer impact.
Translation & copy-editing skills: Proven experience in translation, copy-editing, proofreading, and terminology management.
Excel & batch skills: Comfortable working with spreadsheets to manage, analyze, and QA large volumes of SKU data.
AI-curious mindset: Interest in learning or hands-on experience with GenAI tools and prompting.
Quality-driven: Meticulous, analytical, and proactive in reducing error rates.
Communication & collaboration: Able to give clear, constructive feedback and collaborate effectively with teams.
Adaptability: Comfortable working under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with a PIM system (e.g., Stibo Systems STEP) is an asset.

Responsibilities

Restructure and standardize French translation guidelines and terminology by product category (titles, descriptions, specifications), ensuring SEO and LLM relevance to maximize product discovery.
Review, edit, and validate French SKUs in STEP, and collaborate with the Product Data Management team to optimize content structure and publishing workflows.
Translate and localize French product copy for launches and marketing campaigns, ensuring accuracy and relevance for the Quebec market.
Conduct large-scale audits of product data, identify systemic issues, and drive continuous improvements in translation workflows and content quality.
Evaluate machine translation and generative AI outputs, provide structured feedback, and refine category-specific prompts and QA frameworks to improve quality at scale.
Collaborate with stakeholders, maintain bilingual glossaries, and contribute to terminology governance and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Proofread and validate French digital assets, including web copy, emails, and other customer-facing content, as needed.