Language Manager (Arabic, English)

Minimum qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
* Experience as an Arabic translator, localisation specialist, linguist, copywriter, writer, or editor.
* Ability to speak and write in English and Arabic fluently.

Preferred qualifications:
* MBA, Master's degree, or equivalent program management experience.
* Experience within the creative, localization, journalism, public communications, or the online marketing/advertising industry.
* Experience in partner/stakeholder management while working across cross-functional teams and time-zones.
* Ability to manage multiple and diverse stakeholders across businesses and leadership levels.
* Excellent communication/ presentation skills.

About the job

Google is a universally recognized name. The Localization team helps Google's
ideas and products look, feel and sound natural to users in their own
countries. We collaborate with international Engineering, Product and
Marketing teams to steer products through the localization process and ensure
successful launches across the globe. Our team is an international collection
of enthusiastic, creative and knowledgeable people who excel in a fast-paced,
culturally diverse environment. You are an excellent communicator who plays a
strategic role by building relationships with partner teams to establish
needs, deadlines and budgets. You will flex your project management skills in
order to ensure that our Localization process runs effectively and
efficiently.
Google's mission is to make information universally accessible and useful. We
take that seriously for far more than just products in the English language.
The Localization team helps Google's ideas and products look, feel, and sound
natural to users in their own countries. We collaborate with international
Engineering, Product, and Marketing teams to steer products through the
localization process.
Google creates products and services that make the world a better place, and
gTech 's role is to help bring them to life. Our teams of trusted advisors
support customers globally. Our solutions are rooted in our technical skill,
product expertise, and a thorough understanding of our customers' complex
needs. Whether the answer is a bespoke solution to solve a unique problem, or
a new tool that can scale across Google, everything we do aims to ensure our
customers benefit from the full potential of Google products.

To learn more about gTech, check out our video.

Responsibilities

• Develop a good understanding of market expectations for localization quality and how Google's products fit in the market.


• Create and meaningfully evolve Arabic language guidelines (e.g., Style Guide, Terminology) and Arabic language strategy for Google while taking input from users, stakeholders, and tech language industry trends into account.


• Enable native language experience to users by creating an Arabic language strategy.


• Engage regularly with local stakeholders (e.g., marketing, PR and product teams) to understand their priorities, and share updates on language strategy and global localization services.


• Ensure Google's translation quality while reviewing extended workforce's delivery of high-quality translations in order to verify alignment with Google's language standards and to identify issues.
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