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. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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As a Sports Content Reviewer, you will be responsible for researching, evaluating, and editing sports-related content. You will review and edit content to match our client's style guide and users’ expectations. You will help define editorial direction and a compelling experience for the local market. You will work cross-functionally to ensure accurate and thorough localization of global data for the local market. Excellent research skills, deep sports knowledge, and attention to detail are critical attributes for success in this role. You will need a passion for technology and a will to question the current workflows with the mindset to improve tools and processes. A general understanding and passion for sports is key. If this sounds like you, then take a moment to apply!
Job Details:
Location: Remote in Japan
Full-time employment
Contract: 12 months (potential for further contract extension)
Schedule: Full-time (40 hours per week). Must be flexible to work on a fixed Tuesday-Saturday or Sunday-Thursday schedule. *Subject to change depending on business needs
Responsibilities:
- Reviewing and editing content provided from partners to match the style guide and users’ expectations
- Helping define editorial direction and compelling visual experience for current sporting events
- Verifying accuracy of content and proactiveness in strategic coverage planning
- Partner data accuracy validations
- Other tasks as assigned
Requirements:
- Native or business-level Japanese and English. French or Spanish fluency is a plus.
- Must be willing to work flexible hours and weekends onsite at our client's office, as Live Sports can happen during early mornings, afternoons, and evenings, and are mainly on the weekends.
- Previous experience working within live data or statistics gathering is a plus
Qualifications:
- Available to work mornings, afternoons, nights, weekends, and game days, as assigned
- Significant knowledge of popular sports in North America, as well as basic knowledge of international sports, including Japanese ones.
- Strong research skills, ability to discern between reliable and unreliable sources, specific to sports research.
- Genuinely enjoys working in groups with a positive, team-first, collaborative attitude.
- Has initial instincts to ask questions to team members when unsure of something.
- Follows technical rules and makes necessary changes after receiving corrective feedback from experienced team members
- Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to handle repetitive tasks.
- Flexible with sudden changes regarding rules and instructions.
- Genuine interest in seeking out finer details about sports: teams, players, facts, and tournament/league updates.
- Strong writing and grammar, as well as previous experience in writing (particularly sports writing) and editing, a plus.
- Gets fired up for watching their favorite team or having a healthy debate on the latest in the sports world.
- Previous experience with CMS (Content Management System) tool, a plus.
- Localization or translation experience, a plus. Design and photography experience a plus.
Work Environment requirements:
- Must be able to be in a stationary position for extended periods of time
- Must be able to use a computer mouse for extended periods of time
- Must be able to type for extended periods of time
- The position may be exposed to content that could be construed as offensive, including but not limited to sexual, health-related, racial, or violent content.
- Will be exposed to a computer monitor/screen for extended periods of time
