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Location: Remote in Czechia or Prague office

Position Overview:

The Localization team's mission at Alteryx is to deliver products and supporting documentation that look and sound local to users worldwide. As the Japanese Localization Specialist, you will join the Product Localization team at Alteryx to support our rapidly growing global presence.

• Confirm that the localization of the UI and user experience for new features is seamless and consistent with what our users would expect.
• Work with product management and attend agile rituals such as planning meetings, demos, and feature kick-offs to integrate yourself into the product/dev processes.
• Participate in early product alphas to start learning about new products/features that are planned to be localized and help drive participation in product betas where localization testing/customer validation would be appropriate.
• Localize Help content that enables our Japanese-speaking customers to use and configure our products.
• Proactively engage with other Japanese-speaking Alteryx stakeholders to allow for opportunities to get in-language product feedback in preparation for localized product launches.
• Build upon linguistic and cultural standards/guidelines, and maintain quality, tone, and voice expectations across the whole localized user product experience.
• Maintain and have language assets and terminology accessible to other language stakeholders at Alteryx to ensure consistency and alignment with the teams that work with our various regions.
• Monitor the Japanese linguistic quality output using our internal string manager, quality metrics, and provide feedback and context to the LSP translation teams.
• Provide product trainings to our LSP translation teams to improve the translation quality as we grow our localized products.

• You are a native speaker of Japanese and have business proficiency in English.
• You have a bachelor's degree or 3 years of professional experience in a field related to linguistics, technology, or similar fields.
• You have 2-5 years of professional experience, ideally in localization or similar fields.
• You bring knowledge of your language's culture and nuances.
• You are able to multitask and rise to the occasion to help other team members.
• You take the initiative and enjoy working cross-functionally.
• You are a team player and a team builder. You thrive in multicultural and diverse environments.
• You are an advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• You have experience with analytic software or have used Alteryx products in a previous role.
• You have experience working with Jira or similar project management products to communicate with various audiences.
• You are savvy about the analytic environment, competitive landscape, and trends in your respective region.
• You have worked with localization technology and have helped to improve localization processes at a previous company. Extra points if you are familiar with both cloud and on-premise products.