Portuguese (Brazil) Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

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.