Brazilian Portuguese Copyeditor

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

We are expanding our network of skilled copy editors for English into Brazilian Portuguese specializing in product/service descriptions as well as marketing content, for high-profile clients in the technical, marketing, and entertainment sectors.

While there are no active projects at the moment, we anticipate significant growth in the near future. Therefore, we are proactively preparing a shortlist of potential collaborators.

MAIN DUTIES

• Copyedit content from English into Brazilian Portuguese with original meaning conveyed in a manner that is readable and understandable to target audience.
• Content types: Product/Service & Marketing
• Expected capacity per week: 500 to 1,000

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Minimum3 years' experience translating and reviewing content in the specified subject matter.
• Proficient in all areas of expertise: Product Service & Marketing
• Well-versed in various translation & terminology tools.
• Excellent communications skills in English (spoken and written).
• Native fluency in target language.
• Degree in linguistics, translation or equivalent experience.
• Able to follow instructions, eg. character restrictions, etc.
• Able to communicate effectively the rationale behind their translation skills.
• Experience working in a multi-vendor scenario a plus.

When you join Welocalize, you have the opportunity to bring your career to the next level:

... receive steady volume of work and long-term partnership (where this applies}

... professional development: work on exciting projects that will empower you keep learning and growing

... work with multicultural, international team with a great variety of documents and content types

... 24-hour 6-day a week support from our Community team.

If this opportunity sounds appealing to you, apply below.