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Expedia, Inc. is home to some of the world’s favourite travel companies, providing travel products and services to leisure and corporate travellers in Europe and around the world. We own and operate a diversified portfolio of well-recognized brands — including Expedia, Hotels.com, Venere.com, Hotwire.com, Classic Custom Vacations, and a range of other international businesses. Together, these popular brands and innovative businesses make up Expedia, Inc. the largest online travel agency in the world, the third largest online travel company in the US, and the fourth largest travel company in the world. With us, you get the stability of the global leader in online travel along with the vision, energy and attitude that’s unusual for a company of our size.
Req ID: 20053
Required Education: Not Indicated
Required Experience: Not Indicated
Description:
Job Mission:
Looking to combine your excellent language and editorial skills, translation and localization experience, and passion for travel into one great job? The translator position at Expedia offers this mix in a fast-paced, multi-cultural and productive environment. The successful candidate will work together with our international teams all over the world to allow all Expedia Inc. brands to operate with a truly global ‘Best in Class’ localization quality solution.
Job Description
•Translate Expedia Inc. branded websites and associated content into in their specific language.
•Follow GSO (Global Supply Operations) quality processes and necessary guidelines and instructions.
•Develop internal and external business relationships in support of business objectives.
•Follow company guidelines to ensure tone, style and voice of Expedia branded products.
•Work in conjunction with Quality Managers to improve the quality of Expedia Inc. websites.
•Ability to balance and prioritize multiple requests from various stakeholders across brands.
•Follow terminology, glossaries, reference materials and style guides for their specific language.
•Translation and maintenance of Social Media content (Facebook, Twitter etc) as required.
Requirements / Qualifications:
Experience:
•Degree in Translation/Linguistics/Computational linguistics or equivalent relevant experience
•Proven experience in the translation/localization industry
•Writing/editing experience, if possible
•Experience of working in a global environment
•Strong communication skills. Expertise in English written and spoken communication: e-mail, status reports, conference calls, etc.
•Quality focused
Skills:
•Excellent organizational and communication skills
•Ability to grasp technical concepts
•Problem solving
•Able to work independently
Critical Competencies:
•MUST be a native German speaker
•Linguistic skills and aptitude: familiar with working in a multilingual environment
•Technically minded: able to grasp technical and complex concepts quickly
•Travel vertical expertise and experience
•Desirable - Knowledge of Translation Memory tools - Trados, SDL Worldserver
•Excellent verbal and written communication skills
•Able to work effectively under pressure, meet deadlines and multi-task
•Excellent attention to detail, special ability to focus on linguistic issues
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