Technical Localization Project Manager

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped nearly 80 million learners and more than 17,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others. Learn more about us on our company page.

Where we work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the Dublin office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills

• Localization Expertise: Deep understanding of localization and internationalization best practices and industry standards.

• Project Management: Proven project management skills, including scoping, planning, and executing complex localization projects. The ability to manage timelines, LSP output, and quality assurance at scale is critical.

• Tech & Automation: Experience integrating localization automation and coding practices into existing engineering, development, and project management workflows. Experience with AI-assisted translation workflows.

• Influencing: Develop relationships effectively up, down, and across the organization and strategically use these relationships to help drive work forward. Scope a solution that will "get to yes" and push back on disagreement if they do not provide the needed outcome for the team or the business.

About this role

The role of Technical Localization Project Manager at Udemy requires expertise in both regular project management and technical proficiency, specifically in scripting and automation. You will play a crucial role in managing localization projects and collaborating with cross-functional teams to scope projects and launches, utilizing coding and automation to improve localization processes. This hybrid position offers an opportunity to lead international expansion efforts, influence global users, and contribute to continuous improvement through automation and technical expertise. You’ll play a critical role in modernizing our localization tech stack, leveraging AI and automation to scale efficiently and deliver faster, smarter global content.

What you’ll be doing

• Work with global, cross-functional teams, including product, legal, support, web development, sales, and marketing, to drive program execution.

• Create and manage multiple project schedules simultaneously across a range of initiatives from scratch, and with the help of AI tools.

• Develop and implement automation solutions for localization processes and workflows, continuously improving how we leverage new technologies and AI to drive efficiency and accuracy of our localization efforts.

• Anticipate issues, monitor risks, and actively remove barriers to progress.

• Successfully set expectations to ensure alignment across groups and hold project stakeholders accountable.

• Consistently communicate project status/issues/roadblocks to internal teams and external vendors. 

• Create and contribute to documentation and conduct training on localization best practices for internal teams.

What you’ll have

• 5+ years of experience in localization engineering or localization project management.

• Hands-on experience with machine translation and AI-enhanced localization tools; comfortable evaluating quality and post-editing MT output.

• Proficiency in additional programming languages commonly used in automation, such as Python, JavaScript, or Ruby. Technical knowledge of basic scripting.

• Very skilled with Translation Management Systems (TMSs) and experience with different Content Management Systems (CMSs) like WordPress and Contentful.

• Strong project management skills.

• Excellent communication skills and a proven track record in managing timelines and documentation.

• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and experience with Agile localization practices.

• Proficiency in a language other than English is a plus.

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We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy 

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. 

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. 

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Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our US Benefits,  Ireland Benefits & Turkiye Benefits pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process. 

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