Localization Project Manager
Budget: $750 – $1,500 USD
Summary
Investing.com is a leading financial markets platform providing real-time data, quotes, charts, financial tools, breaking news and analysis across 300 exchanges around the world in 44 language editions. With over 150,000 financial instruments covered, Investing.com offers unlimited access to cutting-edge financial market tools such as customized portfolios, personal alerts, calendars, calculators, and financial insights, completely free of charge.
The Global Operations Localization team is looking to recruit a proactive and detail-oriented Translation / Localization Project Manager (Freelance), who will be responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining scalable translation/localization automation workflows in Crowdin to support a wide variety of localization tasks across multiple stakeholders and business units.
Note: This is primarily a workflow & project infrastructure role, not a linguistic/translation role.
Goal: Map stakeholder needs per translation/localization project type - Build & optimize translation/localization project automation workflows in Crowdin in a timely and reliable manner to enable efficient, scalable and high-quality localization execution across all language editions and internal stakeholders.
Areas of responsibility:
- Gather and map stakeholder needs and translate them into scalable Crowdin workflow designs
- Own the setup and optimization of localization workflows and pipelines within Crowdin
- Build and maintain automation rules, integrations, and triggers to reduce manual work and shorten turnaround time
- Support ongoing localization operations by ensuring projects, tasks, and workflows run smoothly and transparently
- Manage communication and alignment across a fast-paced international environment
- Monitor workflow performance, identify bottlenecks, and propose continuous improvements
- Proactively flag and communicate blockers, technical limitations, and process gaps to relevant stakeholders
Example tasks:
- Crowdin project setup and configuration (workflow steps, roles, permissions)
- Automation design (e.g., auto-assignment, pre-translation flows, approvals, notifications)
- Building structured workflows for different use cases (product UI, marketing content, articles, metadata, etc.)
- Defining tagging / content segmentation logic (branches, labels, filters, file structures)
- Integration setup / maintenance between Crowdin and supporting tools (Figma, Github, JIRA / Slack, etc.)
- Supporting stakeholders with best practices for scalable localization delivery
- Creating and optimizing AI prompts to support translation QA, terminology consistency, structured rewrites, etc.
- Reporting workflow gaps and recommending improvements (process + configuration + automation)
Work time:
Mon-Fri: 08:00–16:00 CET (Central European Time - GMT +1)*
Working hours are somewhat flexible and depend on the actual tasks at hand
Requirements:
- 2+ years experience in translation/localization project management (or similar localization operations roles)
- Hands-on Crowdin experience (workflow setup and project configuration)
- Ability to build structured workflows based on stakeholder requirements (process mapping mindset)
- Strong understanding of localization lifecycle concepts (content types, approvals, LQA, versions, handoffs)
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with high ownership
- Excellent written communication in English
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to use AI tools effectively for efficiency and quality optimization (prompting mindset + experimentation)
- Experience integrating Crowdin into a broader workflow ecosystem (e.g., Slack/JIRA notifications, automations)
- Knowledge of localization automation principles (rules-based workflows, reducing human touchpoints)
- Experience working with product localization, UI string management and structured content
- Familiarity with translation memories, glossary/term bases, and QA configurations
- Experience working with multi-language platforms with many active locales and continuous releases
Investing.com is a leading financial markets platform providing real-time data, quotes, charts, financial tools, breaking news and analysis across 300 exchanges around the world in 44 language editions. With over 150,000 financial instruments covered, Investing.com offers unlimited access to cutting-edge financial market tools such as customized portfolios, personal alerts, calendars, calculators, and financial insights, completely free of charge.
The Global Operations Localization team is looking to recruit a proactive and detail-oriented Translation / Localization Project Manager (Freelance), who will be responsible for building, optimizing, and maintaining scalable translation/localization automation workflows in Crowdin to support a wide variety of localization tasks across multiple stakeholders and business units.
Note: This is primarily a workflow & project infrastructure role, not a linguistic/translation role.
Goal: Map stakeholder needs per translation/localization project type - Build & optimize translation/localization project automation workflows in Crowdin in a timely and reliable manner to enable efficient, scalable and high-quality localization execution across all language editions and internal stakeholders.
Areas of responsibility:
- Gather and map stakeholder needs and translate them into scalable Crowdin workflow designs
- Own the setup and optimization of localization workflows and pipelines within Crowdin
- Build and maintain automation rules, integrations, and triggers to reduce manual work and shorten turnaround time
- Support ongoing localization operations by ensuring projects, tasks, and workflows run smoothly and transparently
- Manage communication and alignment across a fast-paced international environment
- Monitor workflow performance, identify bottlenecks, and propose continuous improvements
- Proactively flag and communicate blockers, technical limitations, and process gaps to relevant stakeholders
Example tasks:
- Crowdin project setup and configuration (workflow steps, roles, permissions)
- Automation design (e.g., auto-assignment, pre-translation flows, approvals, notifications)
- Building structured workflows for different use cases (product UI, marketing content, articles, metadata, etc.)
- Defining tagging / content segmentation logic (branches, labels, filters, file structures)
- Integration setup / maintenance between Crowdin and supporting tools (Figma, Github, JIRA / Slack, etc.)
- Supporting stakeholders with best practices for scalable localization delivery
- Creating and optimizing AI prompts to support translation QA, terminology consistency, structured rewrites, etc.
- Reporting workflow gaps and recommending improvements (process + configuration + automation)
Work time:
Mon-Fri: 08:00–16:00 CET (Central European Time - GMT +1)*
Working hours are somewhat flexible and depend on the actual tasks at hand
Requirements:
- 2+ years experience in translation/localization project management (or similar localization operations roles)
- Hands-on Crowdin experience (workflow setup and project configuration)
- Ability to build structured workflows based on stakeholder requirements (process mapping mindset)
- Strong understanding of localization lifecycle concepts (content types, approvals, LQA, versions, handoffs)
- Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently with high ownership
- Excellent written communication in English
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, international environment with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to use AI tools effectively for efficiency and quality optimization (prompting mindset + experimentation)
- Experience integrating Crowdin into a broader workflow ecosystem (e.g., Slack/JIRA notifications, automations)
- Knowledge of localization automation principles (rules-based workflows, reducing human touchpoints)
- Experience working with product localization, UI string management and structured content
- Familiarity with translation memories, glossary/term bases, and QA configurations
- Experience working with multi-language platforms with many active locales and continuous releases