We’re looking for a candidate with strong linguistic expertise, a professional demeanor, and excellent responsiveness. The Ideal canidate should have experience localizing content for the legal, marketing, and technology sectors, among others. Based in or having recent, extensive living experience in Madagascar to ensure up-to-date cultural relevance.

Key Responsibilities

1. Linguistic Leadership & Quality Assurance

• Define Language Standards: Create, maintain, and update the Malagasy style guide, glossaries, and localization memory databases.

• Quality Arbitrator: Act as the final authority on linguistic quality, resolving stylistic disputes and providing constructive feedback to translation vendors and freelance linguists.

• Linguistic QA: Perform rigorous quality assurance checks, LQA testing, and proofreading on critical user-facing content (app interfaces, marketing campaigns, legal documents, etc.).

2. Translation & Adaptation

• Localization: Translate, transcreate, and post-edit high-priority or highly visible content from [Source Language, e.g., English/French] into Malagasy.

• Cultural Nuance: Ensure all localized materials are culturally appropriate, engaging, and resonant with local audiences in Madagascar while maintaining brand consistency.

3. Team Collaboration & Workflow Management

• Vendor Support: Answer linguistic queries from external translators and provide them with context and onboarding support.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Work closely with Project Managers, Product Teams, and Marketing Leads to align localization efforts with product launch timelines.

Requirements & Qualifications

• Native Fluency: Native-level proficiency in written and spoken Malagasy, with an exceptional grasp of local idioms, cultural nuances, and contemporary language trends.

• Professional Fluency: Full professional proficiency in English

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Linguistics, Translation, Communications, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).

• Experience: * Minimum of 5 years of professional translation/localization experience.

• Technical Skills: Mastery of modern CAT tools (e.g., Trados, MemoQ, Phrase, Lokalise) and Translation Memory management.