September 11, 2024

Summa Linguae Technologies

San José

OTHER

Project Manager - Short Term Contract

Summa Linguae Technologies is a language and technology company that provides localization and data solutions. We help many of the world’s biggest companies make their products and services available in more languages, countries, and cultures across the globe. We have a diverse team of over 250 full-time team members working remotely or in one of our 8 global offices—located in Canada, the USA, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, India, and our company headquarters in Poland.

We're looking for an experienced Project Manager based in South America to support a 3 month contract. There is potential for this opportunity to evolve into a permanent position with the team, based on performance. You must be able commit 40 hours per week, 9am-5pm Monday to Friday, working in Pacific time.

Role Responsibilities:

Manage globalization/localization projects, including kick-off meetings, design review, translations, linguistic QA, bug scrub, validation, and post mortem.
Consult on digital product requirements and UX designs by representing, implementing, and educating on localization/ globalization digital content best practices.
Discover new project scope, gather requirements, create plan and schedule, identify risks.
Coordinate schedules, LQA activities, including in-context UI testing, validation, bug resolution.
Manage multiple simultaneous localization and translation-related projects for Commerce in the Cloud and Commerce Web Experiences, Digital App’s, and related digital assets.
Maintain projects using industry best practices including, strategic implementation of TMS leverage, glossary maintenance, etc.
Liaison with partners in Global markets to continually support an international team of linguists, language specialists, and brand partners.
Manage Kanban board and project management workflow using JIRA.
Manages day-to-day activities, oversees project scope, schedules, and resources as well as ensuring the project is on track and meets its objectives.

Scope of Projects: Typically handling smaller to mid-sized projects with less complexity.

Qualifications:

2-4 years experience with project management, utilizing agile methodology
Strong decision making skills: You make day-to-day decisions related to project execution, and you resolve issues within the project scope
Natural Leader: You focus on managing your team and keeping project tasks on track.
Communication master: You proactively keep teammates and stakeholders up to date, and you share your learnings, questions, and challenges with fellow team members.
Comfortable with ambiguity: you're able to ask questions and find solutions in the face of limited information and resources
Critical thinker: you always apply critical thinking to every request. You don’t simply run with what you are given.
Supportive: You're eager to support the teams you are working with - How can I make their job easier?
English proficiency, reading and writing, is required