English Linguist and Localization Specialist

Sales & Marketing
Midlothian
September 18, 2026
Permanent
Urgent

Job Description

This is a great opportunity for an English linguist and localization specialist to join our Edinburgh office. In the role, you will review the English user interfaces of several Avaloq products from a UX writing perspective, liaise with development and design teams about localization issues and act as a localization project manager for the products you are responsible for. In this position, you will also be the main point of contact between the product teams and our external language services providers. This position would be ideal for someone who speaks native English, German and an additional language, has solid experience of software localization, who is a trained translator and has diversified their skillset to flexibly adapt to the ongoing changes in our sector.

Your key tasks:

  • Manage the English user interface text of several banking applications, editing it to ensure accurate, consistent and user-friendly language and optimizing it for translation into a range of other languages
  • Be part of a cross-divisional approach to localization liaising with various stakeholders, for example to identify and resolve issues that prevent the software from being localized for its target markets
  • Manage localization projects in multiple languages, including outsourcing to external language services providers and financials
  • Maintain and manage the Phrase Strings localization platform (licence and user management)

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