Oracle is currently looking for a talented and motivated linguist to join our Marketing team as a French Localization Specialist (English to French). We are seeking a skilled and enthusiastic language professional who can provide engaging and informative Campaign translations - in the perfect voice and tone to ensure that the Oracle brand resonates in all our international markets across all our channels, including digital, social, and more.

This position has critical customer impact around the globe by ensuring that all brand communications are hyper relevant in local markets.

 

Position Responsibilities:

· Localize marketing campaigns, press releases, SEO-optimized content, Social Media into French.

· Work closely with local and US marketing and creative teams to execute Oracle’s campaign strategy internationally.

· Post-edit machine-translated marketing content in a timely manner in order to increase marketing content availability for French-speaking customers.

· Work closely with Translation Manager and Project Management Team, as well as local Marketing Teams to ensure adherence to Oracle’s quality standards, including voice and tone, brand guidelines, and schedule.

· Control and improve French machine translation engine’s quality by assessing output and providing linguistic feedback to machine translation development team.

· Own French linguistic quality for the group's translated content.

Required Qualifications:

· French native speaker with a degree in Translation, Communications, Advertising or a related field

· Experience localizing for a specific brand (in-house, freelance, or agency) across multiple media

· 2-5 years’ experience with language related tasks, such as translation, proof-reading, editing

· Technical experience with localization and terminology platforms and tools such as SDL Trados Studio desired

· Ability to prioritize, work towards deadlines

· Fully functional oral and written English communication skills

· Eagerness to learn, grow, and incorporate feedback

Translates, proofs, and edits company’s software products, web content, graphics, user interface elements, and other marketing, technical or product documentation from one language to another.

Works with localization teams to adapt material to meet high linguistic quality and cultural standards. Creates and maintains product specific terminology glossaries and language style guides to ensure consistency and cultural conformity. Some experience using translation, localization, or publication tools such as Trados, RoboHelp, or FrameMaker may be needed.

Duties and tasks are standard with some variation; displays understanding of roles, processes and procedures. Performs moderately complex problem solving with assistance and guidance in understanding and applying company policies and processes. BS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. Typically two years of translation or related experience recommended.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).