Junior Project Manager

About Welocalize 

Welocalize, a Welo Global brand, serves localization teams through AI-enabled multilingual content solutions that enable enterprises to operate and scale globally. Welocalize combines AI, automation, and human expertise to support enterprises in more than 300 languages, enabling accurate, culturally aligned, and compliant multilingual content at scale.

Welocalize’s Opal Platform comprises patented technology designed to automate multilingual content and improve workflow performance for enterprises. Opal functions as an agentic system that orchestrates AI, automation, and human expertise to coordinate content workflows across the lifecycle, improving speed, scalability, and operational control for global enterprises. These solutions operate within a secure and compliant environment supported by seven ISO certifications. Welocalize is headquartered in New York with offices worldwide. welocalize.com 

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Junior Project Managers primary purpose is to assist the Project Manager with assessing the scope of the project, and executing translation projects, from quoting through delivery, ensuring that the client’s requests are met in a timely manner, with a keen attention to quality and cost saving potential.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES 

- Quotation/Scoping of Translation and Localization projects based on client's requirements.

- Maintaining a high level of understanding of current patent filing requirements in various jurisdictions as well as the specific needs of each client being served.

- Communicating project information to necessary parties in a clear, concise and professional manner.

- Conveying specific client requests effectively to Project managers.

- Recognizing and escalating any potential issues to the appropriate party in a timely manner

- Creation and maintenance of translation tool repositories with goals toward accuracy and efficiency:

- Machine Translation

- Translation Memory

- Glossaries

- Project preprocessing for TM/MT/Glossary leverage

- Creating linguist usable translation packages

- Receiving and converting completed translation packages into proper output formats

- Project Management:

- Managing project schedules for your assigned projects for each production step: translation, proofreading, quality assurance, and delivery to client.

- Establishing strong relationships with internal and external (vendor) resources globally.

- Working with Project Managers to ensure accurate project tracking.- File handling.

- Ensuring all finance systems data is accurate and kept up-to-date.

- Providing status updates to Project Managers or Sales Representatives, as needed.

• Strong time-management skills. Extremely capable with multi-tasking. Close attention to detail


• A positive, open-minded team player. Will work closely with one PM, sharing projects, and working in shared mailboxes


• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret client requests as well as effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of co-workers, managers, clients, and vendors


• Ability to negotiate rates with external resources effectively, when applicable


• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts & percentages


• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists


• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions


• Close attention to detail


• Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills


• Strong time-management skills

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) or Masters' degree from college or university

Welocalize is committed to equal opportunities and in compliance with the General Law on the Rights of People with Disabilities, this vacancy is also available and we encourage to those candidates who have a disability certificate (equal to or greater than 33%) to apply.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.