Localization Associate - Arabic Speaker

Company Description

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Our purpose is to guide all companies toward a sustainable world. EcoVadis is the leading provider of business sustainability ratings. Our solutions are backed by an international team of experts and powerful technology. We analyze data and build sustainability scorecards that give companies actionable insights into their environmental, social and ethical risks. 

Why apply to EcoVadis? Be a part of the global sustainability change in business. Grow your career. Work with extraordinary people. Feel valued for your contribution.

Learn more about our team and culture on EcoVadis careers page.

Job Description

To support our global expansion and growing business needs, we are seeking a detail-oriented Localization Associate to join our Product Operations team. You will support the Localization Manager in orchestrating end-to-end translation projects, ensuring that our products and communications maintain the highest quality standards across all supported languages.

Key Responsibilities

• Project Coordination: Manage the end-to-end translation lifecycle, including collecting stakeholder requirements, scoping requests, and ensuring timely delivery.
• Workflow Management: Prepare projects in CAT tools, verify source content quality, and maintain up-to-date documentation for all localization assets.
• Quality Assurance: Perform thorough linguistic and functional QA checks, ensuring adherence to Term Bases, Style Guides, and locale-specific requirements.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary point of contact for assigned internal stakeholders, gathering their needs and providing clear, proactive updates on project status.
• Process Improvement: Support localization bug fixing and contribute to the maintenance of translation memories and terminology glossaries.
• Reporting: Track project metrics and contribute to process documentation to drive operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Translation, Philology, or a related field.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English; written fluency in Arabic is required. Intermediate written proficiency in additional languages (especially Chinese, Korean, Turkish, or Thai) is highly valued.
• Experience: Proven experience in translation, localization, or linguistic project management.

Technical Skills:

• Hands-on experience with Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps) is highly valued.
• A tech-forward mindset and curiosity to leverage AI as a co-pilot to automate routine localization tasks, freeing you up for complex problem-solving, stakeholder management, and navigating deep cultural and linguistic nuances. 

Soft Skills:

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• High attention to detail, quality-focused mindset, and strong problem-solving abilities.
• A collaborative team player with a proactive, "can-do" attitude.

Additional Information

• Applicants must be eligible to work and live in Poland
• Hybrid in Warsaw (4 days per month in the office)
• Contract of Employment
• The salary range will be shared following the skills assessment stage of this recruitment process

In return for your expertise, we offer:

• Support with all the necessary office and IT equipment
• Flexible working hours
• Wellness allowance for mental and physical wellbeing
• Access to professional mental health support
• Referral bonus policy
• Learning and development 
• Sustainability events and community involvement
• Peer recognition program
• Employee-led resource groups
• Optional (fully covered or co-financed) health care and life insurance
• Multisport card
• Multikafeteria
• Lunch card
• Hybrid work organization
• Remote work from abroad policy
• Internet and Electricity bill allowance
• Additional day for community service when volunteering

Our hiring team looks forward to reviewing your CV, in English, with a guaranteed response to every application. A new job with purpose awaits you!

Don’t meet all criteria? Please apply anyway. We welcome diverse candidates and want to assess your skills and potential contribution to EcoVadis, regardless of your background.

Can the hiring process be adjusted to suit my needs? Yes. We want all candidates, including people with disabilities, people with long-term health conditions, and neurodiverse applicants, to feel confident demonstrating their potential. If you require adjustments, such as interview questions in advance, please inform the hiring team.

Our team’s strength comes from everyone’s uniqueness and is founded upon mutual respect. EcoVadis commits to equity, inclusion and reducing bias in our hiring processes. EcoVadis does not accept any form of discrimination based on characteristics such as color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, parental status, or any other protected characteristic that makes you unique. To reduce bias in hiring, applicants are encouraged to remove personal details such as photos, marital/parental status, religion, gender, postal code, university name/graduation date, past leave details, and nationality (instead, confirm eligibility to work in the job location).

Our recruitment processes do not include AI systems that make autonomous decisions impacting individuals’ rights without human oversight. Inputs and outputs of the system have been validated by humans and answers are based on algorithms that analyze previous data with which the system has been trained. We use SmartRecruiters as our applicant tracking system and to schedule interviews. Gemini is used to summarize notes from interviews and to refine job descriptions and social media messaging. AssessFirst is used to support talent assessment decisions.