Localization Specialist / Japanese Translator

Job Description

HubSpot helps millions of organizations grow better, and we’d love to grow better with you. Our business builds the software and systems that power the world’s small to medium-sized businesses. Our company culture builds connections, careers, and employee growth. How? By creating a workplace that values flexibility, autonomy, and transparency. If that sounds like something you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you.

You can find out more about our company culture in the HubSpot Culture Code, which has more than 4M views, and learn about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, too. Thanks to the work of every HubSpotter globally who has helped build our remarkable culture, HubSpot has been named a top workplace by Glassdoor, Fortune, Entrepreneur, and more.

HubSpot was founded in 2006. We’re headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and we have offices in Dublin (Ireland), Sydney (Australia), New Hampshire, Singapore, Tokyo (Japan), Berlin (Germany), and Bogotá (Colombia).

About this role

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

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

You'll be more than just a mere translator, as you'll be actively interacting and collaborating with internal/external stakeholders to improvise solutions for immediate problems or to improve ongoing processes on the fly.

Responsibilities

• Transcreate and improve the HubSpot Japan Blog and Website to ensure relevance and quality
• Translate product interface strings for a delightful Japanese user experience with our software
• Translate critical support and educational content, which educates users and encourages marketing and sales success for our customers in Japan
• Help ensure that our translation memory files for Japanese are clean and updated
• Review translated content from external agencies as needed
• Support additional ongoing translation needs for Japanese in other functional areas
• Provide feedback to the Localization Specialist on the development of our terminology database and style guide for Japanese, incorporating feedback from internal Japanese speakers at HubSpot as well as Japanese-speaking customers and partners and other linguistic sources

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of professional EN>JA translation and review/editing experience
• Outstanding transcreation and translation skills with creative marketing content
• Experience localizing product UI strings
• Experience using major CAT tools, MemoQ preferred
• Experience using termbases and translation memories
• 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