Brazil Language Manager
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Job Description
Brazil Portuguese Language Manager shaping Canva’s localized product and marketing experiences. Improving translation quality, cultural relevance, and localization workflows for Brazilian users.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with the Country Localisation Lead to shape Canva’s voice across the product in Portuguese (BRL)
- Translate and review key product and marketing content
- Manage relationships with localisation partners and vendors
- Develop and maintain style guides, glossaries, and translation memories
- Provide cultural insights and localisation recommendations for Brazilian audiences
- Assess machine translation and AI-generated language outputs
- Collaborate with marketing, subscriptions, content, and localisation stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to improve localisation workflows, tooling, and quality processes at scale
Requirements:
- Exceptional writing and communication skills in Portuguese (BRL)
- Strong understanding of tone, localisation, and cultural nuance
- Passion for language, creativity, and empowering user experiences
- Ability to thrive in fast-moving, entrepreneurial environments
- Experience working with CAT tools and localisation platforms
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to review, evaluate, and improve translated content
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and build stakeholder relationships
- Bonus: experience with Smartling
- Bonus: experience with SaaS localisation, SEO, copywriting, or design tools like Canva
Benefits:
- Flexible, remote-friendly ways of working
- 12-month engagement working full-time hours
- Contractor-accreditation meetings conducted virtually
- Reasonable adjustments available during the contractor-accreditation interview process
- Access to Canva's global campuses and collaboration with global teams









