Japanese Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

Welo Global

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About The Position

Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent Sports Subject Matter Experts specialized in football with exceptional writing skills to join our localization team. You’ll review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt football-related content so it resonates with audiences in your market. This role involves quality control, including grammar checks and subject matter expertise assessment for the Japanese language pair (English US > Japanese).

Requirements

• BS/BA and/or 2+ years of work experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or in copy-editing
• Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football
• Experience in translation and localization of multimedia content, preferably also machine translations and evaluations
• Native-level fluency in Japanese
• Excellent grammar and writing skills in English
• Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing skills in Japanese
• Tech savvy: strong practical knowledge of computers and mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets
• Owning licensed version of MS Office apps (MUST)

Nice To Haves

• Published work on platforms like ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or similar
• Experience working with sports media platforms, live score apps, or sports streaming services
• A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z, football fan culture, and pop culture audiences

Responsibilities

• Review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt sports-related content, mainly football, while adhering to writing style guides and guidelines
• Conduct market-specific research on local content, product and terminology trends, and best localization practices for the target audience in your market
• Provide feedback on written content

Benefits

• Multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages
• Growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources
• High-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning
• $25 - $31 an hour

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree