German Language Lead

Who we are

lululemon is a performance apparel company for yoga, running, training and beyond, creating innovative products and transformative experiences. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world. We owe our success to the technicality of our product, our commitment to people and the incredible connections we make in every community we are in.

About this team
The International Localization Team’s goal is to make lululemon’s brand and products relevant in the countries we sell in, and to continuously expand our operations to new markets. We fuel business success by making important information available to consumers in their language in a culturally appropriate and timely way. We aim to be recognized as a brand that resonates with fitness lovers around the world. Our Localization team supports international business needs by translating or transcreating various external and internal communications and resources. As a localization lead, you communicate with the localization manager and make sure the team is delivering excellent localized contents on time in German language.

About This Role
The German Localization Lead pursues excellence in translation quality and consistency including localizing English content for German-speaking markets, reviewing machine translations, maintaining terminology databases and supporting memory maintenance for machine translations.

**A day in the life**: what you’ll do
- Translate or transcreate English content into German and support business needs such as product education, training resources, internal communication, digital content, video subtitles and etcetera.
- Play key part of the proofreading phase of all major translation processes by proactively pursuing excellence in translation quality and consistency across all platforms and channels in the required language.
- Coordinate language feedback from users, including reporting on guest and lululemon employee engagement.
- Maintain close cooperation with regional stakeholders including in-market storytellers, training managers, communications specialists and with a group of freelance translators, questioning and/or answering any stylistic or linguistic questions.
- Pursue excellence in translation quality and consistency, including accurately representing intent through tonality, thematic and cultural adaptation.
- Act as the internal language expert for German, including answering linguists’ questions and making final decisions about changes to the glossary, translation memory and style guide, responsible for approving all brand material in German and signing off copy.

Experience
- University degree in Translation, Modern Languages or Communications or equivalent education.
- Native-level knowledge of German including comprehensive understanding of cultural differences and nuances.
- Professional fluency in English.
- Advanced knowledge of technical and creative writing in German including grammar and punctuation.
- Translation and proofreading experience within fashion, lifestyle or wellbeing.
- Understanding of machine translation software preferred.
- Time management and organizational skills and multitasking abilities.

Asset
- Experience with online translation software and systems.
- Basic knowledge of HTML, TXML or TM technologies an asset.

Who you are
- Uniquely you - we value diversity and want you too as well.
- Passionate about languages and translation with an eye for detail and a pride in your work.
- Works well within a team and loves working in a fast-paced environment on several projects at once.
- Practises self-awareness has a natural curiosity and takes an active interest in personal development and sharing knowledge.
- Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
- Communicates with honesty and kindness and creates the space for others to do the same.
- Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
- Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.