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Mission

On the Localization Team, our mission is to transform how HubSpot grows internationally. By providing transparent, high-quality localization services, the localization team empowers and enables HubSpot’s global customers and internal departments. The in-house translator plays a key role in supporting the localization of high-visibility creative and technical content and contributing to fine-tuning the brand tone and voice in German.

Challenge

HubSpot’s Localization Team is growing across its locations. We seek a professional German translator, with a love for translating marketing and software content. As a German Translator at HubSpot, you’ll play an important role in relaying the HubSpot voice and style in German to ensure that it’s clear, accessible, and culturally relevant for customers and partners in DACH.

You’ll support the efforts of our German Localization Specialist by translating essential, high-visibility content. You’ll help improve our German translations, terminology database, style guide, translation memories, and overall German localization processes and resources. Creativity and flexible thinking are key, as you’ll collaborate with internal stakeholders to translate new inbound marketing and sales concepts into German.

Responsibilities

• Transcreate and improve the HubSpot German Blog and Website to ensure relevance and quality
• Translate HubSpot’s software interface to ensure a delightful German user experience with our software
• Translate critical support and educational content, which educates users and encourages marketing and sales success for our customers in DACH
• Help produce and QA multimedia content, such as video or audio files
• Help ensure that our translation memory files for German are clean and updated
• Review translated content from external agencies as needed
• Support additional ongoing translation needs for German in other functional areas
• Provide feedback to the Localization Specialist on the development of our terminology database and style guide for German, incorporating feedback from internal German speakers at HubSpot as well as German-speaking customers and partners and other linguistic sources
• Develop a thorough understanding of HubSpot’s software, inbound marketing and related concepts and methodologies

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of professional EN>DE translation and review/editing experience
• Native command of German and very high proficiency in English
• Knowledge of regional differences across DACH and ability to produce content that is adaptive to all markets
• Proven transcreation and translation skills with creative marketing content
• Experience in software localization
• Experience using major CAT tools (e.g. memoQ, SDL Studio)
• Experience using termbases and translation memories
• Experience working on web-based content (e.g. HTML, CSS)
• Knowledge of online marketing and marketing content localization
• Detail-oriented, with a passion for linguistic quality
• Outstanding communicator, articulate, fluid conversationalist
• Technical mindset, interested in learning new tools, good at troubleshooting
• Video and audio localization experience are a plus
• Experience using photo editing software (e.g. Adobe Photoshop), vector graphics editor (e.g. Adobe Illustrator), and desktop publishing software (e.g. Adobe InDesign) are a plus