TITLE – Localization Program Manager
ANTICIPATED DURATION: 5 months
LOCATION: Sunnyvale, CA
Project Overview: Our client is a universally recognized name. The Localization team helps ideas and products look, feel, and sound natural to users in their own countries. We collaborate with international Engineering, Product and Marketing teams to steer products through the localization process and ensure successful launches across the globe. Our team is an international collection of enthusiastic, creative, and knowledgeable people who excel in a fast-paced, culturally diverse environment. You are an excellent communicator who plays a strategic role by building relationships with partner teams to establish needs, deadlines, and budgets. You will flex your project management skills in order to ensure that our Localization process runs effectively and efficiently.
Overall Responsibilities: As a Program Manager in the Localization team, you are a business leader, helping ideas and products look, feel, and sound natural to users across the globe. Whether you're on a consumer product (like Gmail, Search, Maps, Android, Play, YouTube) or a business product (AdWords, AdSense, DoubleClick, Analytics), you are in charge of driving the end-to-end localization process to ensure successful launches across the globe. Your projects often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres, and it's your role to keep all the players coordinated on project progress and deadlines. Using your influencing and relationship-building skills, you provide strategic insight to cross-functional teams and leadership to drive product expansion globally. You'll work with Engineering, Product, Marketing, and Finance to name just a few.
Top 3 Daily Responsibilities: Lead the localization of one or several products from inception to launch, managing delivery, cost, and quality of projects and overseeing vendor execution.Build strong relationships with product teams, educating and advising them on their product's localization journey whilst representing the voice of our global users. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to understand top business needs related to a product's localization and local insights needs.Be accountable for the product's localization budget, from understanding the product's roadmap to drive the annual planning, to advising stakeholders on optimizing their spend.Understand Localization workflows and services, identify tool and process needs to enable operational scaling, collaborate with Operations and Engineering to support deployment.Build compelling cases for new business opportunities (ex: product language expansion, bringing in new business, localization process refinement), develop insightful recommendations and drive development and implementation. Structure and package your work into presentations and communications that influence various audiences including senior executives.Mandatory Skills/Qualifications: Education: Degree and field - Total years' experience in what industry, discipline, or responsibility.BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience.3 years of localization experience working across cross-functional teams.Non-Essential Skills/Qualifications: Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and global environment with proven success in project management, execution, and multi-tasking.Strong analytical and problem-solving experience, combined with excellent business judgment and an ability to present to senior decision makers in a clear and compelling manner.Excellent consulting and client-facing skills, interpersonal and organizational skills, and/or proven ability crafting and delivering strategic plans in collaboration with various stakeholders.Great communication, influencing skills, and prioritization skills.Proven ability to adapt your message to the technical level of the audience and comfort presenting data-driven materials to groups of any size, background, and seniority.The hourly pay rate range for this position is $61.76 to $79.98/hr (dependent on factors including but not limited to client requirements, experience, statutory considerations, and location). Benefits available to full-time employees: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k, and commuter benefits. Synergis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. For immediate consideration, please forward your resume to ******** If you require assistance or an accommodation in the application or employment process, please contact us at ******** .
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