Senior Localization Specialist resume example

• As workstream lead, translated product text and dialogue from source context, character intent, and in-product behavior rather than isolated strings; preserved meaning and user action across the localized experience.
• With responsibility for the review standard, maintained terminology decisions with definitions, context examples, prohibited variants, and review owners; reduced inconsistent wording across product, marketing, support, and voice scripts.
• As workstream lead, reviewed cultural, legal, and usability risks with regional specialists and documented approved adaptations; made departures from the source intentional, traceable, and reviewable.
• Maintained a terminology glossary and translation memory, reviewed locale-specific screenshots for truncation and formatting errors, and reconciled reviewer changes before the localized release.
• Designed localized copywriting for a brand-marketing campaign using market research, tested target-audience comprehension and completed the translation review before the campaign deadline.
• Owned a localization review using terminology management and brand-voice references, resolved culturally misleading translation and completed quality-assurance checks before delivery.
• Published audience-specific editing guidance using tracked review comments, reduced repeated terminology corrections by 31% and completed reporting before the agreed deadlines.

• Tested localized builds for truncation, variables, font support, input methods, and context mismatches; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams. Working with partner teams, closed language defects with reproducible evidence before release.
• Checked the final version against the approved source and editorial brief, flagged an unsupported statement, and retained a clear correction history when the material changed after review.
• Resolved a late editorial correction by identifying every version that contained the disputed passage, verifying the replacement against the original source, and sending the corrected package with a clear description of what changed.

• Reviewed cultural, legal, and usability risks with regional specialists and documented approved adaptations; aligned review standards and decision owners across the participating teams
• Prepared an independent editorial brief using public sources, separating verified statements, interpretation and missing information; linked draft passages to source notes and checked quotation context.
• Produced a publication-ready draft with a source list, rights notes and a correction log; checked the final headline and excerpts against the full material so the short version did not overstate the evidence.
• Owned the independent publication check using source-linked transcripts, resolved a misleading shortened quotation and completed the release package with rights and correction notes.

Relevant coursework: Reporting, media law, video storytelling, audience engagement

• Published a personal editing breakdown using the independent project’s cut list, explaining source verification, caption choices and the tradeoff between brevity and factual qualification.