Portuguese (Brazil) Sports Localization Specialist (Football)
Welocalize
WorldwideFully remoteContractMid LevelInformation Technology
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- Hiring model
- Open worldwide · the employer states no country restriction
- Work from
- Anywhere, the UAE included
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About the role
Responsibilities
- Review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt sports-related content, mainly football, while adhering to writing style guides and guidelines
- Conduct market-specific research on local content, product and terminology trends, and best localization practices for the target audience in your market
- Provide feedback on written content
Requirements
- BS/BA and/s or 2+ years of work experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or in copy-editing
- Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football
- Experience in translation and localization of multimedia content, preferably also machine translations and evaluations
- Native-level fluency in Brazilian Portuguese
- Excellent grammar and writing skills in English
- Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing skills in Brazilian Portuguese
- Tech savvy: strong practical knowledge of computers and mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets
- Owning licensed version of MS Office apps (MUST)
Preferred Qualifications
- Published work on platforms like ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or similar
- Experience working with sports media platforms, live score apps, or sports streaming services
- A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z, football fan culture, and pop culture audiences
About the Company
Welocalize is a global transformation partner that delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages, serving a global network of 400,000 in-country linguistic resources.
What we look for
- Native-level fluency in Brazilian Portuguese
- Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football
- English (US) to Portuguese (Brazil) localization experience
- Strong creative writing and editing skills in Brazilian Portuguese
- Licensed MS Office apps
- BS/BA or 2+ years linguistic/sports journalism experience
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