Japanese Linguistic Tester (Digital Books and Podcasts Content)

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Welocalize is seeking a Japanese Linguistic Tester to provide QA for media content. This individual will be a part of the team that performs quality checks on Media content, looking for any quality issues such as formatting, functionality, or anything else that may interfere with an optimal customer experience. This team is also responsible for verifying and correcting metadata on books' content that is imported into our internal database with the objective to help improve the presentation and search-ability of the books in the store.

Job Details:

Job details:

• Job Title: Japanese Linguistic Tester
• Location: Remote in Cupertino, CA (must be able to commute to the office to pick up equipment)
• Workweek: Monday-Friday (40 hours/week) Employees have some flexibility in schedule but must start their work between 7:30 am and 10:30 am daily.
• Type of employment: W-2 employee, eligible for benefits based on hours worked
• Project duration: Open-ended
• Hourly Rate: $35/hr
• Start Date: As soon as possible

Experience and Qualifications:

• Mac and iOS user or power user
• Fluent in Japanese as a first language, as well as English
•  Must be highly detail-oriented with the ability to multitask, prioritize and meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment
• Tech-savvy with a desire to play a role in improving technology solutions
• Adept at working with large data sets and identifying patterns
• Ability to draw conclusions from data and recommend actions
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, as well as in small and large cross-functional teams
• BS/BA and 2+ years of work experience in the field of data management
• Ability to quickly detect issues and inconsistencies from a massive sea of content and make sound judgment calls based on information at hand
• Proven ability to maintain solid focus through many hours of performing repetitive tasks
• Sharp problem solving and analytical skills, along with the ability to learn from history and actively help errors from reoccurring
• A wide range of knowledge of authors, genres of books, publishing industry, and digital book formats is highly preferred
• Familiarity with XML and web-based content management systems preferred
• Basic editorial experience preferred