Hybrid Senior Product Operations Manager, Localization

Posted 4 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Product Operations Manager driving localization efforts for AI-powered legal platform. Coordination and management of translation processes for various product lines in international markets.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and own the end-to-end localization platform process and ensure internationalization and localization considerations are built into every product roadmap.
  • Serve as the operational owner of our translation vendor relationship, including string handoffs, quality feedback, SLAs, and delivery schedules.
  • Partner with Engineering to drive i18n implementation, string management best practices, and automated localization workflows.
  • Establish localization QA workflows (automated and manual), gather feedback from internal/global stakeholders, and triage issues with engineering.
  • Ensure localized assets meet local regulatory, linguistic, and cultural expectations through partnership with Legal and regional SMEs.
  • Develop internal tools, workflows, and automations that improve localization speed, quality, and cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

  • 4–7+ years of experience in localization operations, technical program management, product operations, or related roles in software.
  • Strong understanding of i18n concepts, localization engineering, file formats, TMS/CAT tools, and translation workflows.
  • Ability to work closely with engineers on technical requirements, automation, pipelines, and integration issues.
  • Experience implementing or managing localization tooling and internal product operations systems is a plus.
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills; able to coordinate multiple teams and keep complex flows on track.
  • Clear communicator who can partner effectively across Product, Engineering, Design, Legal, and external vendors.
  • Proven ability to manage external localization vendors, including evaluating quality, negotiating contracts, building partnerships, and providing constructive feedback to ensure quality and timely delivery.
  • Strong attention to detail, with appreciation for cultural, linguistic, and regulatory nuance—especially in high-accuracy domains.
  • Experience in legal, compliance, or other regulated industries is valuable.
  • Experience in high-growth/startup environments, comfortable with ambiguity, resourceful, biased toward action, and a commitment to continuous learning and scaling a function from the ground up.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision coverage
  • Retirement benefits (401k match up to 4%)
  • Flexible PTO

Job title

Senior Product Operations Manager, Localization

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$178,500 - $210,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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