Localization Specialists

Our client, is seeking an experienced, highly detail-oriented Localization Specialist (French Canadian) to join their international communications and digital experience team.

In this high-impact linguistic role, you will produce intentional, impactful French (Canada) content across a wide variety of external and internal channels. You will play a central role in quality control, leading the proofreading and transcreation phases for major digital initiatives, learning and leadership materials, packaging, labels, and urgent communications. Working alongside the global localization team, you will help maintain brand consistency across style guides, translation memories, and glossaries, while evaluating vendor and AI-generated translations to ensure cultural nuance and local market resonance.

Duration: 12-Month Contract (with potential for extension)

Advantages
High-Impact Global Brand Scope: Shape how a world-renowned brand connects with French Canadian audiences across digital platforms, packaging, and media channels.

12-Month Engagement Stability: Secure a full 1-year consulting contract within an established, innovative international technology and retail brand.

Modern AI & Tech Integration: Evaluate and refine AI-driven translation workflows while utilizing industry-standard CAT and Translation Management Systems (TMS).

Collaborative & Inclusive Culture: Join a purpose-driven organization that values courage, authentic connection, and personal empowerment.

Responsibilities
Content Transcreation & Translation: Produce intentional, culturally resonant French (Canada) content for external digital channels, media releases, internal communications, training materials, and digital advertising.

Quality Assurance & Proofreading: Play a key lead role in the proofreading phase for major localization projects, including digital platforms, learning materials, packaging, and product labels.

Linguistic Asset Management: Contribute to the continuous maintenance and curation of style guides, translation memories (TMs), and terminology glossaries.

Vendor & AI Quality Governance: Assess vendor and AI-assisted translations, providing constructive feedback to the Localization Lead to optimize machine-translation quality and consistency.

Urgent Business Support: Support immediate, high-priority localization needs and media-sensitive content with rapid turnaround times.

Qualifications
Linguistic Expertise: Native-level fluency in French (Canada) paired with professional-level command of written and spoken English.

Professional Experience: 5+ years of hands-on translation, localization, and creative copywriting experience supporting enterprise brands.

Cultural Nuance: Deep, demonstrated understanding of French Canadian cultural nuances, regional terminology, and linguistic trends.

Localization Tooling: Proficient with enterprise localization technologies, including Translation Management Systems (TMS) and Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools.

Organization & Time Management: Exceptional time-management and multitasking abilities to handle competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Assets & Nice-to-Haves
Basic working knowledge of HTML, TXML, and digital web assets.

Experience evaluating machine translation (MT) outputs and AI-generated copy.

Summary
If you are a tech-savvy Localization Specialist who pairs 5+ years of French Canadian translation and copywriting expertise with a passion for brand voice, CAT tooling, and transcreation quality, this 12-month contract is an outstanding opportunity. Bring your linguistic precision, cultural insight, and collaborative mindset to our client's global localization team today!

Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.

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