Translator – Learning Designer, Localization Project, Japanese
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Japanese localization specialist adapting TransPerfect’s business and sales-enablement learning content. Translating, rebuilding, and quality-checking PowerPoint and Articulate Rise materials.
Responsibilities:
- Review and refine AI-pretranslated content in Smartcat for accuracy, fluency, grammar, tone, and natural Japanese expression
- Apply approved terminology consistently across skills, decisions, products, and specialized terminology
- Maintain a conversational, evidence-based, commercially sharp voice
- Adapt buyer-as-hero and “you” language naturally for Japanese audiences
- Rebuild finalized translations in existing PowerPoint decks and Articulate Rise modules
- Test and repair animations, transitions, triggers, timing, and build sequences
- Resolve layout issues caused by localized text, including overflow, line breaks, and cut-off content
- Perform light image/screenshot text edits in PowerPoint
- Deliver assets in a fully presentation-ready state
- Collaborate with the internal team and other contractors, working independently against milestones and participating in 1–2 weekly check-ins
Requirements:
- Native-level Japanese with excellent professional/B2B writing skills
- Strong English reading and collaboration skills
- Proven experience in business, sales-enablement, corporate learning, or professional localization
- Comfortable working with terminology glossaries and style guides
- Strong PowerPoint skills, including the Animation Pane and animation repair
- Experience with Articulate Rise or similar authoring tools
- Strong attention to layout, typography, and visual presentation
- Reliable overlap with Eastern Time (GMT-4) / Central European business hours
- Nice to have: localization QA experience with animated/interactive presentations and B2B sales-enablement experience
- Comfortable and able to work in a remote setting for a contract role
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