Bilingual Recipe Translator (12 months)

Full Time
Toronto, ON, Canada
4 months ago

S'more about the team

We are looking for a Bilingual Recipe Translator to support the HelloFresh and Chefs Plate weekly recipe card process, specifically focused on French customer-facing content. You will provide high-quality translation adaptations for our weekly HelloFresh recipe cards, Product and FSQA documents and Ingredient Terminology sheets. Reporting to the Senior Recipe Editor and working closely with the Editorial team, you will play a key role in ensuring French customer-facing content is clear and correct while supporting the English copy editing process. We seek your fresh perspective on our current French process to help us evolve more efficiently.

Lettuce share what this role will be responsible for

  • Support the Editorial and Production Operations teams with managing the weekly French translation processes within both the digital and physical recipe cards
  • Main point of contact for the external translation agency and freelance team for hand-off and receiving of work
  • Translate, review and proofread translated content to ensure content language aligns with the English version of the content
  • Ensure consistency and quality across French copy and customer-facing information
  • Support the Editorial team with English editorial processes, including weekly check-points and deadlines, as well as reviewing recipe copy content for HelloFresh and Chefs Plate
  • Ensure consistency and quality across recipe copy content and customer-facing information for both French and English
  • Support dynamic weekly French and English recipe edits in response to menu changes that can arise
  • Support tracking of recipe copy content and customer-facing errors by supporting the use of internal change tracker tools 
  • Support short-term and long-term editorial-based projects when needed
  • Work collaboratively with recipe developers and other culinary stakeholders to maintain and update French editorial style guides
  • Complete data and content clean-up tasks or projects that impact recipe card information when needed
  • Collaborate with our customer care team to resolve customer's concerns that may appear on our French recipe cards
  • All other duties, as assigned 

Sound a-peeling? Here's what we're looking for

  • Bilingual in Canadian French and English, both written and oral (native French speaker preferred)
  • 2-3 years of translation experience and confidence in supporting a team in a fast-paced environment
  • Translation software knowledge and experience: Antidote, Trados Studio, DeepL
  • Experience working with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign) is a significant asset.
  • Degree in linguistics, translation or equivalent experience
  • An expert-level eye for detail - you’ll catch the most minor things: inconsistencies, technical inconsistencies, typos and grammatical errors.
  • Advanced organizational skills and confidence to handle multiple deadlines in a given week.
  • A desire to continuously seek and implement process improvement
  • Confidence in your work and abilities - you’re able to problem-solve independently

Let’s cut to the cheese, this is why you'll love it here

  • Box Discount - Amazing discounts on 1 box per week! 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box
  • Health & Wellness -Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, and unlimited access to the Headspace app to meet your self-care needs.
  • Vacation & PTO -Time off is also an important part of self-care! We offer generous vacation and PTO to help you create a good work-life balance. 
  • Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program for expectant parents
  • WFH Allowance - A one time fund to help you set up or improve your home office 
  • Growth & Development - We support your career progression, provide development opportunities, and invest in your continued learning through our organization wide L&D fund
  • Work Hard & Have Fun - From team socials to HQ Wellness Wednesdays, you’ll have plenty of opportunity to experience the fun!
  • Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - With impactful ERG’s like HelloChange and Women Empowerment, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts
  • Food Puns - this one is kind of a big dill if you haven’t already noticed. We even have some punny meeting room names!

Flexible Hybrid Approach

At HelloFresh, we know that flexible work arrangements are essential in enabling you to do your best work, while balancing your personal and life needs. Offering remote work flexibility, along with the opportunity to interact and collaborate in the office are all a part of creating a great employee experience. 

To meet these needs, we are pleased to provide Flexible Hybrid work. Flexible Hybrid is a people-first approach that is based on choice, trust, personalization, and empowers teams to choose when and how often they work from the office and work from home, in addition to team days and company days. This means a minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.

Working Conditions

It’s no surprise that as a food company, we use many ingredients that may be considered common allergens (i.e. peanuts, tree nuts, milk, etc.). Whether this role is based out of our headquarters or one of our distribution centers, it is possible that you may be exposed to such allergens in this role. If you have any concerns with being exposed to any particular food ingredients, including meat, please disclose this during the hiring process.