Hogarth is the Global Content Experience Company. Part of WPP, Hogarth partners with one in every two of the world’s top 100 brands including Coca-Cola, Ford, Rolex, Nestlé, Mondelez and Dyson. With a breadth of experience across an extensive range of sectors, Hogarth offers the unrivaled ability to deliver relevant, engaging, and measurable content across all channels and media - both established and emerging.
The number of channels at our fingertips; the need for speed; and the drive for mass personalisation, all mean that brands need different solutions.
Our global team of over 7,500 craft and technology experts brings together creative, production and innovation to help clients navigate this exciting and ever-changing world of today’s content experience.
What does a Translator/MTPE do at Hogarth?
The Translator/MTPE is responsible for translating and post-editing our technology client’s marketing communications, working closely with editors, and creative directors, and maintaining the highest possible translation and editing standards. The ideal candidate for this hybrid role should be tech-savvy, with a keen eye and exceptional attention to detail to ensure clarity and accuracy in all copy projects. They should be flexible, adaptable, and results-driven, with the ability to work with stakeholders, internal and external partners, and project managers. The ideal candidate should also be able to handle and prioritize translation assignments in a fast-paced, ever-changing work environment. You will be required to build strong working relationships with the in-market and global teams to ensure delivery of linguistically and tonally perfect campaigns that will ensure the client’s products stand out in your market.
Key Responsibilities
- Translate, proofread and post-edit copy for the client’s brand and products, as required
- As MTPE, you will review, edit and refine the output produced by MT systems, ensuring that the translation is devoid of technical errors and focusing on meaning accuracy, correctness, fluency and style.
- Work closely with in-country team on a high volume of projects and deliver on time and to an excellent standard, often with short deadlines
- Collaborate with all members of the translation, editing and writing team to improve the quality of the copy
- Leverage glossaries and style guides to ensure alignment with the brand’s tone of voice, ensuring clarity and accuracy of translations, and maintaining the highest possible standards
- Help maintain the client’s brand tone of voice across all communications
- Work with a wide range of translation software and AI-driven tools
- Work with validation teams to always take translation quality to the next level 2
Requirements
- A degree in linguistics, translation, language studies or an equivalent degree • Native speaker of the target language and fluent in English
- A minimum of 2-3 years of experience in translating and editing marketing and technical materials
- Ideal candidates should have a previous localization experience at an advertising agency, localization, or transcreation agency
- Full command of the language and grammar
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of the English language
- Experience in working for global technology brands and products
- Experience in using computer-aided translation tools (CAT tools such as Trados and ML-based translation engines, deep understanding of MTPE processes
- Experience in the development and maintenance of style guides and glossaries
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to work as a team member
- Must be flexible and able to adapt within an environment of constant change
Diversity & Inclusion
Hogarth is an equal-opportunity employer. That means we believe in creating a truly inclusive culture that values diversity, equity and inclusion for everyone through our ideas, our people, how we behave and how we conduct ourselves. We strive to recruit people from diverse backgrounds and support them to achieve long-term success. This not only makes Hogarth a better company and place to work, but an environment where everyone can give their point of view, experience connection, enjoy opportunity and feel a sense of belonging.
We welcome applications from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender, gender identity, age, national origin, marital status, military veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or physical or mental disability. As part of our commitment to making our hiring processes as equitable as possible, we are currently rolling out a policy which ensures that hiring managers review CVs only after they have been processed through an automated anonymisation system. This aims to ensure that all candidates are considered for interview based solely on their experience and what they can bring to the role. The solution, provided by MeVitae, scans and redacts CVs to reduce potential reviewer bias.
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