Financial Translator, Spanish

Dow Jones; New York; On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Dow Jones is seeking two AI-literate Financial Translators fluent in Spanish (Latin American) and English for a hybrid role in New York City. You will assess and improve English-to-Spanish autotranslation of financial news, build glossaries, and craft prompts to enhance accuracy and style.

Prior MTPE and LQA experience, plus CAT tools proficiency, are required. The position is full-time with hybrid attendance at our Americas HQ in New York and involves collaborating with global colleagues across

Qualifications

• Native level Spanish (C2) with Latin American culture understanding.
• Experience in LQA and MTPE processes.
• Strong English proficiency and financial terminology knowledge.
• Experience with CAT tools for glossary creation and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Spot-check autotranslated output daily to ensure accuracy and style.
• Document and track translation quality metrics and trends.
• Build and maintain glossaries for consistency across translations.
• Design, test, and refine prompts to improve auto-translation quality.
• Collaborate with Product, Editorial, customers, and partners.
• Translate predefined templates and other translation-related tasks as needed.

Job description

Job Description

Financial Translator - Spanish (Latin American) New York/ Hybrid based Dow Jones Newswires is seeking two AI-literate translators fluent in Spanish and English to join its growing team of linguists and be a key player in ensuring accuracy while constantly monitoring the quality of our autotranslation model. The successful candidate will assess and improve the autotranslation from English to Spanish of Dow Jones Newswires financial, business, and economic news. Our model in this case will be based on Latin American Spanish. The job holder will be expected to demonstrate strong skills in prompt engineering and experience with building glossaries to improve translation consistencies and outcomes. This is a full-time contract with office attendance on a hybrid basis at our Americas HQ in New York City.

You Will

• Be responsible for tasks related to R&D and QA for English-to-Spanish autotranslation, including:
• Spot-checking autotranslated output on a daily basis
• Document and track translation quality metrics to monitor trends, identify improvement areas and support continuous enhancement
• Implementing the correction policy for Spanish products
• Building and maintaining glossaries
• Designing, testing, and iteratively refining prompts to continuously enhance the quality, accuracy, and style of our autotranslated financial news
• Regularly communicating and sharing ideas with global colleagues to enhance the autotranslation quality and work efficiency
• Interacting with different stakeholders (Product, Editorial, customers, and partners)
• Assist with translating pre-defined templates for generating automated content and other translation-related work that may be required by the business

You Have

• A native level of Spanish (C2)
• A strong understanding of Spanish culture in particular that of Latin America to ensure appropriateness and cultural compliance
• Demonstrable experience in LQA and Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE)
• Strong experience using CAT tools - specially for building and implementing glossaries
• Excellent knowledge of financial & economic news & terminology in English and Spanish.
• Experience with machine translation and GenAI
• Preferably some experience in a financial-focused newsroom

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Business Area

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status

Union role

Base Pay Range

- We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions. For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

Company Overview

Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest newsgathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and Dow Jones Newswires. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

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