Traducteur (trice) pour le français du Canada | French Canadian Linguist (Remote)

Gap Inc.; Eastern Ontario; Remote; CAD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an experienced Linguist to enhance their Localization team for the French-Canadian market. This exciting role involves providing linguistic expertise, managing translations, and ensuring compliance with regional content requirements. You will collaborate closely with internal teams to improve processes and deliver high-quality translations across various content types. If you are passionate about language and have a strong service mindset, this opportunity offers a dynamic environment to make a significant impact in a leading retail organization.

Qualifications

• Native proficiency in French (Canada) and fluent in English.
• Experience in translation across various content types.

Responsibilities

• Provide linguistic expertise for French Canada, ensuring compliance with local laws.
• Manage translations and reviews for employee and customer-facing content.

Skills

Translation

Transcreation

Machine Translation

Post-editing

Linguistic Review

Terminology Research

Interpersonal Communication

Attention to Detail

Service Mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Linguistics or related field

Tools

XTM

Job description

About the Role

To best support the business needs, core working hours for this role are: 11am-7pm ET (8am-4pm PT).

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and professional Linguist for the French-Canadian market to join the Localization team at Gap Inc. This position requires a strong linguist with experience in translation, transcreation, machine translation, post-editing, and review - preferably in retail, marketing, internal communications, and legal realms. This role will partner closely with the French-Canadian Linguistic Manager and French-Canadian linguists to ensure content applicability for the Québec/Canada region, brands' tone of voice, stylistic and linguistic requirements while working alongside the Localization team to support and strengthen business partner relationships cross-functionally.

What You'll Do

• Provide linguistic expertise and be an advocate for the French Canada (FRCA) language, ensuring compliance with linguistic laws in Québec/Canada, regionally relevant content, and respect of each brand’s voice.
• Complete FRCA translations (including transcreation and post-editing tasks), linguistic reviews, in-context reviews/proofreading, and light formatting.
• Provide FRCA translations for employee-facing and customer-facing content, including creative and technical content.
• Perform terminology research and collaborate on terminology questions.
• Review, prioritize, and manage deadlines, issues, and queries that affect localized content to ensure internal stakeholders' expectations are met and projects are delivered on time with high-quality translations.
• Build partnerships and assert localization expertise to deepen collaboration with the Localization team and linguists.
• Support internal teams in continually improving processes and identify areas in localization that could be improved.

Who You Are

• Native level proficiency in French (Canada) and fluent in English (both written and spoken).
• Experienced French-English translator with transcreation ability.
• Experience with translating different types of content, such as communications, marketing, human resources, legal, and technical.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly.
• Comfortable using a variety of publishing tools and is thoughtful in the delivery of information while working on diverse content.
• Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Strong service mindset with the ability to provide excellent service to internal customers.
• Prior experience in retail or fashion is an asset.
• Prior experience in XTM is an asset.
• Prior experience with Quebec’s Bill 96 is an asset.

About the Company

Gap Inc. is the largest specialty retailer in the United States and is 3rd in total international locations, behind Inditex Group and H&M. As of September 2008, the company has approximately 135,000 employees and operates 3,727 stores worldwide, of which 2,406 are located in the U.S.