Freelance Localization Specialist (Berlin)

About us

• KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car, cruise, or vacation package

About the job

• We are looking for a creative Localization Specialist (freelance) to work on the localization and transcreation of our marketing content and products
• You will be working for our different brands, mainly KAYAK and OpenTable, and will contribute to exciting projects such as new product features and marketing initiatives
• We aspire to have a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We know that when we have diverse teams, we produce more creative ideas and products as well as better outcomes for our collaborators
• Please note that this is an open position and we will get in touch with you if we have a new project available for your language pair that matches your expertise

Responsibilities

• Provide commercial and creative translations from English to the target language for our products (websites and apps), to appeal to the target market and with an eye to our brands
• Transcreate content for landing pages, blogs, newsletters, SEO pages, social media copy and other marketing content and promotional materials
• Run linguistic quality and functionality checks (LQA) and increase engagement with the local audience
• Maintain and update language-specific tools such as the style guide and glossary
• We expect a lower workload in the beginning, with the potential for more work in the future, depending on upcoming projects and availability within the team
• Machine translation post-editing of user-generated content and bespoke content such as hotel and restaurant descriptions

Requirements

• Native-speaker level of proficiency in the target language (mandatory)
• Effective verbal and written communication skills in English
• Localization / translation experience
• Creative translation / copywriting skills
• SEO experience is a plus
• LQA (linguistic quality assurance) experience
• Training or education in a relevant field (communication, marketing, translation, linguistics, or similar)
• Ability to learn new tools and technical procedures quickly and effectively
• Enjoys working with a variety of tasks, and capable of independently handling workflows, information and processes for different types of projects