This is Adyen
Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.
For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.
Japanese Localization Specialist
At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for speed and scale, and our global reach means language, culture and local experience matter. We're looking for a Japanese Localization Quality Specialist to own and drive the quality of our Japanese content across product, marketing, and customer-facing materials. In this role, you'll safeguard the voice of Adyen in Japanese and ensure that every experience we deliver is linguistically and culturally authentic.
What you'll do
- Own Japanese linguistic quality: Manage the quality program for all Japanese content, particularly technical documentation and in-product UI copy, by reviewing translation output against Adyen's standards.
- Develop Japanese language assets: Create, maintain, and evolve Japanese style guides, glossaries, and other resources to scale high-quality content.
- Collaborate across teams: Work closely with Product, Marketing, Support, and other in-market teams to define the right localization approach and ensure local success of campaigns, launches, and communications.
- Manage vendor linguists: Oversee external resources, providing guidance, feedback, and coordination for market-specific initiatives.
- Be the go-to expert: Address linguistic queries, provide cultural insights, and advocate for Japanese customers within Adyen's global teams.
- Drive improvements: Use data and stakeholder feedback to continuously refine processes, localization quality programs, and operational efficiency.
Who you are
- Native speaker of Japanese, with excellent command of written and spoken English.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in localization, ideally in a SaaS or Technology environment.
- Skilled at writing, editing, and reviewing Japanese content with strong attention to detail.
- Experience in product and technical documentation content is required, marketing content experience is a plus.
- Deep understanding of Japanese culture, communication styles, and user expectations, with the ability to convey Adyen's brand authentically.
- Comfortable explaining linguistic and cultural nuances to non-linguists across different teams.
- Experienced with TMS platforms (e.g. Smartling), machine translation, AI and QA workflows.
- A strong communicator and team player, able to influence and collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
- Flexible, proactive, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments
Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you're from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application
What's next?
Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 5 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don't be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.
This role is based out of our Tokyo office. We are an office-first company and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles.
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