Content Specialist

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place! 

We’re looking for a Content Specialist to join our Marketing team in Montrèal. As a key member of Lightspeed’s dynamic in-house Brand Content & Creative team, you’ll steer our French brand and marketing materials, as well as support our internal/external comms and PR materials in Québec alongside our Senior Localization Project Manager. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Brand Content, you’ll lead our Québec content, including overseeing the editorial calendar, translating marketing product assets, creating brand material, and supporting social media campaigns. Your work will have a direct impact on reaching our Québec-based customers and positioning Lightspeed as the leading one-stop commerce platform for businesses everywhere.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establishing and overseeing the Québec editorial calendar for the NOAM region
• Creating original relevant articles and translating articles for our French blog
• Writing customer case stories and developing a Québec customer quotes database
• Supporting the Social Media Manager to create compelling content/campaigns on our various platforms
• Working closely with the Senior Localization Project Manager to translate brand, marketing, internal/external comms and PR materials (website pages, promo campaigns, product releases, customers/partners comms, video scripts, one-pagers, corporate reports, intranet, press releases, etc.), working with various stakeholders to define scope and ensuring deadlines are met
• Building and maintaining relationships with various internal stakeholders, as well as external freelancers and agencies
• Collaborating with localization leads on the Product Content and Customer teams to align on Québec product naming and established terminology
• Working closely with the Legal team to ensure Lightspeed’s ongoing compliance with Québec’s language laws

Experience & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in comms, journalism, marketing, translation, or equivalent experience
• 2-3 years experience in marketing content writing/management
• 2-3 years experience with English-to-French translation
• Exceptional written and verbal skills in French and English
• Proactive problem solving skills, resourcefulness and creativity
• Good knowledge and/or very strong interest in the Québec hospitality and retail markets
• Some experience or exposure to:
  
  • Wordpress or other content management systems
  • Project management systems (Monday, Wrike, Asana, etc)

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you’re proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal’s gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.