Language Manager, Thai

Meta platforms are available in more than 100 languages, 88% of our users are from outside North America and we continue to expand internationally.Excited? Come join a great team and help us to think local and scale global!As Language Manager, Thai, you will be involved in ensuring that we deliver a great user experience to our international audience through high quality translations. As we work closely with team members in offices and regional stakeholders, it is very important that the candidate be comfortable working with teams across different time zones.

Language Manager, Thai Responsibilities:

• Reviewing, editing and/or translating high visibility UI content and high priority long form content of Meta family of apps and other core experiences
• Performing localization screenshot testing to identify linguistic and functional issues
• Working closely with product teams and performing hands-on linguistic testing on web and mobile devices
• Collaborating with Localization Program Management team to support product launches and driving the efforts to ensure linguistic quality from end to end during the product launch cycles
• Driving product and/or vertical-specific language quality initiatives
• Collaborating with Vendor Management team to select translation vendors, drive vendor probation, and support vendors' ramp-up
• Closely monitoring vendor translation quality through our quality framework and managing translation vendors' performance when needed
• Driving or supporting cross-functional and/or team level quality framework at scale
• Building and scaling stakeholder education programs for internal cross-functional partners and external vendors to ensure language quality from end to end
• Maintaining the localization glossaries, style guides, and TM for owned content
• keeping them up to date and audience appropriate
• Working closely with the in-country stakeholders to deliver market appropriate translation
• Performing other linguistic tasks as needed
• Traveling domestically or internationally to other Meta offices and/or business sites as needed

• 3+ years of experience in English-to-Thai translation, product UI localization, linguistic reviews and translation quality management is required for monitoring the Thai translation quality for our family of apps and long-form content, and making appropriate decisions for necessary changes to improve it
• Thai language is required to communicate efficiently with our translation vendor teams, cross-functional teams, and occasionally, with our end-users in Thai
• Experience in creating and/or maintaining linguistic assets for Thai translation (e.g. terminology, style guides etc.) is required for being able to guide our translation vendor teams and reviewers in ensuring consistency, accuracy and appropriateness of Thai translation on the Meta family of apps
• Knowledge of Thai culture, society and current trends is required to ensure that the tone and style of our Thai translation is appropriate for millions of our end-users
• Familiarity with CAT tools is required in order to perform the day-to-day work of translation and linguistic reviews
• Experience in localization of online and mobile products from English to Thai is required to understand and detect the language-specific issues in product localization, and fix them by applying the right solutions
• Cross-functional experience working with engineers, product teams, regional stakeholders or clients is required to work effectively with cross-functional teams within Meta, and to help them detect and resolve language-specific issues in Thai

• Experience in localization of gaming content
• Experience in localization program and/or project management
• Familiarity with digital marketing
• Experience in hardware localization and testing
• Experience in AR, VR, smart home devices, or related technologies