English to Maltese Review Lead for UI, Marketing & Product Content

Overview

In this role you will act as the locale’s quality owner and primary client-facing linguistic expert for a global technology client. You will ensure all language work aligns with the client’s quality standards and a shared understanding of “good,” while coordinating with the Post-Editing team and reviewers. You will drive consistency, governance, and continuous improvement across UI, marketing, product, and support content, with regular collaboration with the client’s Language Manager. This is a long-term, remote freelance opportunity offering steady volume and close cross-functional engagement.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements and map style guide changes to content types and quality categories
• Coordinate alignment roundtables and publish a monthly quality digest
• Coach reviewers one-to-one, run shadowing sessions, and deliver data-driven training
• Translate recurring justification patterns into style guide proposals and share patterns with Quality Manager
• Maintain alignment with the client by escalating concerns with evidence and minimizing surprises
• Own locale review service score, RQE alignment performance, and arbitration integrity
• Manage relationship with the client’s Language Manager, including escalations and expectations tracking

Key requirements

• 3 to 5+ years in Localization Quality Assurance, Senior Language Lead, or Quality Governance roles
• Direct client/stakeholder management as primary point of contact for Language Managers
• Deep experience with localization evaluation frameworks (RQE, LQE, error rubrics, severity mapping)
• Ability to analyse style guide changes and map implicit client expectations by content type
• Hands-on facilitation experience (coaching, shadowing, alignment rounds, monthly quality reporting)
• Analytical approach to tracking error concentrations, severity drift, and alignment scores
• Native-level Maltese and professional-level English
• Preferred: experience with major technology localization programs and calibration/alignment tools

• stakeholder management
• coaching and mentoring
• facilitation and meeting leadership
• localization quality assurance frameworks (RQE, LQE)
• style guide analysis
• arbitration and escalation processes

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