Welocalize is seeking a culturally fluent Sports Subject Matter Expert specialized in football to localize content for French (Canada) audiences.
You will review, localize, fact check, and adapt football-related content to resonate with local audiences.

Main Duties:

Review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt sports content, mainly football, following writing style guides and guidelines.
Conduct market-specific research on local content, product, and terminology trends, as well as best localization practices.
Provide feedback on written content to ensure quality and cultural relevance.

Required Skills:

BS/BA or 2+ years of work experience in linguistics, sports journalism, copywriting, or copy-editing.
Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football, and experience in translation and localization of multimedia content.
Native-level fluency in French (Canada) with strong grammar, writing, proofreading, and editing skills.

Bonus Qualifications:

Published work on platforms like ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or similar.
Experience working with sports media platforms, live score apps, or sports streaming services.
A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z, football fan culture, and pop culture audiences.

Welocalize

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources.

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