Localization Director

YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Business development: leading the go-to-market and customer success strategies and operations of the localization vertical, in collaboration with the management team at Sora Union. 
• Structural planning: design and implement team structures and workflows that can guarantee the quality, efficiency, and scalability of our work, and are compatible with best practices among top global language service providers
• Growing the team: recruiting, hiring and retaining multi-disciplinary global localization teams, while creating an inclusive, cross-cultural environment to optimize performance.
• Managing the team: managing, mentoring, and inspiring across all the teams of localization specialists, as well as providing professional and upskilling guidance for teammates’ growth and development. 
• Strategic direction: contributing to the strategy of shaping the direction of the localization vertical, such as future areas of localization to launch business, productization of internal workflow and skill-mapping, etc. 

YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM

• Passion in localization: you are deeply passionate about localization, have a solid understanding of localization strategies, principles, and models, and can paint a long-term vision of both the localization world & a localization business.
• Localization leadership: you are a skilled, experienced, and influential localization leader at top-tier firms, and comfortable leading the various aspects of localization across industries.
• Entrepreneurship: you focus on possibilities and not obstacles, can roll up your sleeves, and can balance ambiguity, fast iterative sprints, business awareness, technology, and organizational agility. 
• Global experiences: you have studied or worked across different geographies around the world, and have been successful in collaborating with and motivating teammates from different cultural backgrounds. 
• Distributed work culture: you are an excellent communicator and collaborator with experiences of managing distributed teams and can bring the best out of your colleagues when not physically together.