AI Product Localisation Specialist - 8-month Contract
AI Product Localisation Specialist - 8-month Contract
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Job Description
Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
Hey gday mabuhay kia ora hallo vtejte!
Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and youre probably keen to find out whats on offer so well get straight to the point.
Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney Australia but we engage our Contractors and Freelancers all over the world to help us meet our crazy big goals. As a Contractor or Freelancer at Canva you can work fully remotely in the country outlined above meaning you have ultimate flexibility. Wherever works for you works for us.
What youd be doing in this role
Every month more than 100 million Canva users create a design in one of the 100 languages other than English that Canva supports. The localisation specialty is made up of three teams of linguists project managers and designers distributed throughout the company with a mission of celebrating the diversity of our growing base of global users and making their Canva experiences delightful.
This mission involves everything from developing a vision for the global user experience through procuring translation services via agencies to maintaining localisation infrastructure roadmaps. If you join us youll be involved in all stages of the development cycle in worldclass product teams.
This role will focus on leveraging AI to drive efficiency in Canva localisation program starting with a largescale media localisation project involving dubbing and subtitling education and user onboarding content. Youll bring subject matter expertise and strong organisational skills to this project collaborating with stakeholders from partner teams and delivering against challenging timelines.
At the moment this role is focused on:
- Leading the localisation MVP for Canvas Design School managing timelines KPIs agency partners and stakeholders.
- Applying your expertise in generative AI to improve the quality and speed of dubbing and subtitling from tool selection through to deployment.
- Collaborating with language experts to safely roll out AI translation capabilities across multimedia formats.
- Supporting training data pipelines evaluating AI outputs and contributing to localisation tech strategy.
- Driving best practices and knowledge sharing across Canvas global teams through workshops and documentation.
Youre probably a match if
- You have deep knowledge of localisation and AI frameworks like RAG BLEU COMET and MQM.
- Youre familiar with postedited machine translation and know how to deploy localisation tools at scale.
- Youve delivered complex programs involving multiple stakeholders and evolving priorities.
- You thrive in ambiguity and bring clarity through structured thinking excellent documentation and communication.
- You understand the unique needs of LOTE (languages other than English) users especially in a SaaS context.
- Youre comfortable with tech (Atlassian tools basic web development) and write a mean doc.
- Bonus: you speak multiple languages or have worked vendorside in localisation!
About the team
The Localisation group is responsible for the localisation of Canvas product marketing and content as well as the tools processes and assets that make this mission possible. We sit within the Global Content and Discovery supergroup but we work closely with stakeholders across the whole organisation from customer support and sales through to our AI features and the core editing product.
Localisation is made up of localisation specialists designers and language managers (native speaker language experts) who work across the business to achieve our mission of equipping all Canvanauts with the best practices insights and processes they need to go global.
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Other stuff to know
We make hiring decisions to engage contractors based on your experience skills and passion. When you signify interest in the Project please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the contractoraccreditation interview process.
Please note that contractoraccreditation meetings are conducted virtually.
We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above we still want to hear from you!
Check out lifeatcanva for more info.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Contract
Employment Type
Remote
