Finnish Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

5 hours, 56 minutes ago
Contract
Junior
Quality Assurance and Testing
Welo Global

Welo Global

Welo Global specializes in providing enterprise localization, AI training data, and multilingual content solutions, leveraging a portfolio of specialized global brands to meet diverse customer needs in the AI and language services industry.

Professional Services
Founded 1997

Description

  • Review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt sports content, mainly football, for the target market.
  • Follow writing style guides and localization guidelines while producing content.
  • Conduct market-specific research on local content, terminology trends, and best localization practices.
  • Provide feedback on written content.
  • Work with multilingual content in translation, localization, copy editing, and machine translation post-editing tasks.

Requirements

  • BS/BA degree and/or 2+ years of experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or copy-editing.
  • Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football.
  • Experience translating and localizing multimedia content, preferably including machine translation and evaluation work.
  • Native-level fluency in Finnish.
  • Excellent grammar, writing, proofreading, and editing skills in Finnish.
  • Strong practical knowledge of computers, mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets.
  • Ownership of a licensed version of MS Office applications.
  • Ability to work independently and remotely.
  • Published work on platforms like ESPN, The Athletic, or FourFourTwo is preferred.
  • Experience working with sports media platforms, live score apps, or sports streaming services is preferred.
  • Ability to adapt voice and style for Gen Z, football fan culture, and pop culture audiences is preferred.

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