French Music Localization Specialist - French (Canada)

Welocalize, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate French linguists to join their Music localization team. You will translate and adapt music-related content, bringing an authentic tone to resonate with French-speaking audiences. This role combines creativity with precision, allowing you to shape compelling in-app experiences. With a steady volume of work and opportunities for professional development, you will collaborate with a multicultural team on exciting projects. If you have a flair for music and a deep understanding of contemporary trends, this is the perfect opportunity to elevate your career.

Benefits

Steady volume of work

Professional development opportunities

Support from community team 24/6

Work on exciting projects

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in music, media, or creative localization.
• Excellent command of French (Canada) and cultural fluency.

Responsibilities

• Translate and adapt music-related content into native-level French.
• Collaborate with assessment team for testing and feedback.

Skills

Translation

Transcreation

Copy Editing

Cultural Fluency

Music Knowledge

UI/UX Copy

CAT Tools

Education

Degree in Linguistics

Degree in Translation

Degree in Journalism

Tools

Welocalize CAT Tools

Job description

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

OVERVIEW

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent French (Canada) linguists with deep knowledge of contemporary music and exceptional writing skills to join our Music localization team. You’ll help shape compelling in-app content and user experiences that resonate with French-speaking audiences across genres and formats.

You’ll translate and adapt a variety of music-related content into native-level French, bringing an authentic tone and voice to our client's Music’s global platform. This is more than localization—it’s storytelling for a music-loving audience.

Project Details:

Language Pair: English (US) > French (Canada)

Task Type: Translation, Transcreation, Copy Editing

Volume: 1,000–2,000 weighted words/week

Tools: Welocalize CAT & client tools (training provided)

Workload: Daily/Weekly availability preferred

Assessment: Grammar + UX/Creative task via Mettl (completed in one sitting)

MAIN DUTIES

• Translate and post-edit music-related content with precision and creativity.
• Adapt tone, style, and structure to reflect the French music scene, culture, and idiomatic usage.
• Collaborate with our assessment team to complete brief testing in our platform (grammar + UX/marketing task).
• Maintain brand consistency and linguistic accuracy across UI, banners, and promotional assets.
• Provide feedback or suggestions for improving content relevance and impact.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Minimum 4 years' experience in music, media, or creative localization.
• Strong familiarity with current music trends, genres (Pop, K-Pop, Hip Hop), and cultural context.
• Excellent command of French (Canada) and deep cultural fluency.
• Demonstrated experience with UI/UX copy, music metadata, or artist bios.
• Comfortable using CAT tools and adapting content to multiple platforms.
• Degree in linguistics, translation, or journalism. Creative writing background preferred.

BONUS IF YOU HAVE:

• Published work on platforms like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, or similar.
• Experience working with music streaming services.
• A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z or pop culture audiences.

$28 - $33 an hour

After your application is reviewed, shortlisted candidates will be contacted by our assessment team to complete testing. Please be prepared to submit a short, creative language test in our secure platform.

When you join Welocalize, you have the opportunity to bring your career to the next level:

... receive steady volume of work and long-term partnership

... professional development: work on exciting projects that will empower you to keep learning and growing

... work with multicultural, international team with a great variety of documents and content types

... 24-hour 6-day a week support from our community team.