Senior Localization Specialist

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design, and our culture. Want to join the leader in AI-powered data security?

The marketing operations team at Cohesity is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Senior Localization Specialist with proven experience using CAT tools & TMS platforms, and supporting multilingual projects. In this dynamic role, you will assist in managing translation and localization projects from initiation through delivery, working closely with vendors, linguists, and internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with content creators and global teams to deliver high-quality, customer-facing content in English and multiple non-English languages.
• Monitor project timelines, budgets, and deliverables to ensure high-quality and on-time delivery.
• Perform linguistic file preparation, including file conversions, pre-processing, and post-processing tasks.
• Define and optimize localization processes for global and regional marketing teams, ensuring consistency and alignment on all content, localization functions and projects.
• Partner with localization stakeholders and regions to optimize translation workflows and processes for efficiency, cost savings and scalability.
• Define and track localization KPIs to measure quality, ensure efficient workflows, optimized translation memory, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the development of localization standards, systems, and best practices.
• Manage localization quality assurance (LQA) processes to maintain linguistic and cultural accuracy and coordinate local office review with key stakeholders.
• Manage translation memory and terminology databases.
• Manage vendor relationships, including negotiation, performance evaluation, and cost optimization.
• Balance competing priorities through great time management, organizational skills, and judgment.
• Contribute during new localization connector implementations, performing QA, optimizing content through automation, etc.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Translation, Linguistics or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in localization program management or project management.
• Strong background in localization strategy, translation quality management, and global content adaptation across domains.
• Experience with vendor management, including negotiation, performance evaluation, and cost optimization.
• Expertise with localization tools and technologies, such as Translation Management Systems (TMS), Computer Assisted Technology (CAT) systems and Content Management System (CMS) platforms such as Smartling, Transifex, memoQ, SDL Trados, Lokalise, Adobe Experience Manager, XTM, etc.
• Expertise with collaboration & project management tools such as JIRA, Smartsheet, Asana, Confluence, Slack, Trello, SharePoint, etc.
• Familiarity with file formats (e.g., .xliff, .sdlxliff, .json, .xml, .indd) and file conversions.
• Familiarity with localization quality assurance (LQA) processes, translation memory management, and terminology databases.
• Knowledge of internationalization (i18n) best practices, including technical constraints in software localization.
• Fluency in English required; additional language proficiency is a plus.

Company Information

Cohesity is the leader in AI-powered data security. Over 13,600 enterprise customers, including over 85 of the Fortune 100 and nearly 70% of the Global 500, rely on Cohesity to strengthen their resilience while providing Gen AI insights into their vast amounts of data. Formed from the combination of Cohesity with Veritas’ enterprise data protection business, the company’s solutions secure and protect data on-premises, in the cloud, and at the edge. Backed by NVIDIA, IBM, HPE, Cisco, AWS, Google Cloud, and others, Cohesity is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices around the globe. We’ve been named a Leader by multiple analyst firms and have been globally recognized for Innovation, Product Strength, and Simplicity in Design, and our culture.