Job description
Akulaku is seeking a skilled Localization Specialist fluent in Mandarin to lead translations and content localization across our product, marketing, and support channels. In this contract role based in Jakarta, you will collaborate with product, marketing, design, and engineering teams to ensure accurate, engaging, and culturally relevant content that preserves Akulaku's brand voice across markets. You will manage end-to-end localization projects, maintain style guides and glossaries, and drive consistency through translation memories and terminology management.
Your day-to-day includes writing and adapting copy for localized campaigns, landing pages, in-app messages, push notifications, emails, and help center content. You will coordinate with internal stakeholders and external vendors, set realistic timelines, monitor budgets, and ensure on-time delivery without quality compromise. You will also perform in-context QA, test localized content in production environments, and continuously improve processes to scale localization as Akulaku expands in Mandarin-speaking regions.
Responsibility
- Lead end-to-end localization projects for Mandarin content across websites, apps, and marketing assets, ensuring brand voice and cultural relevance.
- Collaborate with product, marketing, design, legal, and engineering teams to plan localization timelines and resource needs.
- Develop and maintain glossaries, style guides, and translation memories to ensure consistency and efficiency.
- Review and QA localized content in context, ensuring accuracy, tone, and usability.
- Translate and adapt marketing copy, emails, push notifications, landing pages, and help center articles for Mandarin-speaking audiences.
- Coordinate with external vendors and language service providers; track budgets and milestones.
- Support SEO localization strategies by optimizing localized pages with Mandarin keywords and metadata.
Qualification
- Fluent Mandarin with professional English; Indonesian language skills are a plus.
- 3+ years in localization, translation, or content marketing, preferably in tech or fintech.
- Proven copywriting and editing ability with strong attention to brand voice.
- Experience with CAT tools, translation memories, and glossary management.
- Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills; able to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
- Detail-oriented with strong QA, testing, and problem-solving skills; comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with SEO localization principles and best practices for Mandarin-language content.