Localization Team Lead
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 18K clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers.When you join one of our teams, you’ll be part of a nimble group that’s empowered to set aggressive goals and move fast to achieve them. Strategic risks are encouraged and complex problems are solved together, by passing the microphone and iterating until the best solution comes to light. You won’t have to look to find growth opportunities—ready or not, they’ll find you. From retail to government to healthcare, we’re on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. Join over 6,000 people across the globe who think that’s work worth doing.
Localization Manager
Why We Have This Role
Qualtrics is seeking a skilled Localization Manager to lead the Global Experience team. This team sits in the new Product Marketing (PMM) Scale Team within the Product Marketing organization. As the Manager of the Global Experience team, you will help leaders at Qualtrics make the right language investment decisions for our international growth trajectory. You will work in partnership with Go-to-Market, Marketing, Sales, and Product to grow our numbers in new territories.
The team that you will lead includes:
- Program Management - A Center of Excellence that owns the governance and program management for how we operate across languages and geographies and designs bespoke localization programs around each team’s tech and content needs
- Language Technology - A language tech stack that allows all of our content repositories across product, support, and demand generation to produce, store content, dialogue and integrate seamlessly with each other in a continuous localization operating model
- Supply Chain - A linguist and AI language services sourcing and supply chain management program that allows us to outsource the production of multilingual content in a fully agile, back-and-forward scalable manner, for optimal subject-matter expertise access and cost-effectiveness
- Quality Enablement - A language quality program that allows us to constantly measure the effectiveness of our translations and their impact on our platform usability; the program also provides linguists with product & brand voice training, and with an optimized translation environment to raise the bar of our content and comms
- Devise data-driven localization strategies that maximize the Return On Investment
- Coach your team to deliver excellence as they work cross-functionally and across geographies
- Be the champion and continue influence of localization as critical to market expansion
- Develop, run and lead a successful process across global stakeholders to scale this function effectively
- Influence stakeholders to adopt best practices and standards of global-readiness in both planning and execution
- Establish the governance framework, the standards (including SLAs), and playbooks for what and how we localize
- Collaborate with the Analytics team to capture and analyze data points that show the impact of our work on the company’s bottom line, and use data to make decisions that grow our presence in markets outside of the US
- Prioritize team initiatives to drive scale for PMM and ROI for the business
- Assess innovative ways to reach more customers and prospects with multilingual content at scale
- Educate stakeholders regarding global readiness with a focus on language
- Raise awareness of the impact of our team’s work on our company’s success
- Help the team prioritize efforts and create program roadmaps that align with the company’s overall strategy and timelines
- Lead on team’s goal settings with the avail of the OKR framework, and continuously check in to assess progress, manage risk, and redirect course if necessary
- Foster an inclusive and engaged team environment
- Coach the team into making the right decisions daily and help them prioritize work
- Lead on the performance and development process for GX
- 3-6 years of accumulated experience in one or more of the following fields: Localization leadership (incl. owner/driver of the localization roadmap), localization project management, or localization program management (preferably in the SaaS industry)
- 1+ years of previous experience as a people manager or lead
- Ability to multitask efficiently to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions
- Experience working with project management tools and systems to track and manage multiple workstreams (e.g. Jira).
- Experience working with localization software and tools (e.g. XTM, MT engines, CMS integrations).
- Demonstrated emotional intelligence, ability to thrive in ambiguity, and be a self-starter.
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Strong presentation and communication skills, with extraordinary attention to detail
- Strong cross-cultural skills
- Focus Fridays - no meetings!
- Regular team bonding, including monthly happy hours
- We believe in sharing Qualtrics' success which is part of the compensation for all employees