Lead Linguist with Hindi

Star7 India is seeking a highly skilled and experienced (5+ years) native Hindi Lead Linguist to oversee and manage all aspects of Hindi language translation and localization.

The successful candidate will have extensive linguistic experience in Hindi language translation with a particular focus on UI and documentation, an in-depth understanding of cultural nuances, excellent leadership, and decision-making skills.

The position will interact with other localization teams (onsite and offsite) as well as global engineering and QA teams.

The role The Hindi Lead Linguist is responsible for leading their linguistic teams to deliver a natural, world-class user experience in their native language. In addition to translating and reviewing content, the Lead Translation Linguist provides linguistic leadership, stakeholder management, and coaching services to their translation teams.

The Lead Linguist establishes terminology and style parameters for their respective language, motivates a linguistic team and instils pride in the language, initiates and drives terminology decisions, is able to influence a positive outcome to terminology discussions and shows strong leadership skills with a passion for their language.