Global Localization Program Manager

Twitch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability

401(k)

Maternity & Parental Leave

Flexible PTO

Amazon Employee Discount

Job summary

Twitch is seeking a Localization Program Manager to own the operational core of our localization program across 29 languages. You will coordinate vendors, content workflows, quality processes, and launch execution with product and engineering to deliver a native experience.

You can work from San Francisco, Irvine, or Seattle, with potential to grow scope over time. This role values measurable improvements, data-driven decisions, and scalable localization practices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of localization project/program management experience.
• Experience managing stakeholders and cross-organizational dependencies.
• Experience with enterprise localization tools and translation management platforms; developing linguistic assets and workflows.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication.
• Native speaker of one additional language.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end localization into 29 languages, including launches that require creative asset localization, terminology building and testing
• Monitor continuous localization operations while identifying and implementing opportunities for improvement.
• Run and evolve localization quality processes: coordinate testing, build LQA workflows and propose improvements based on data.
• Monitor and improve translation quality output by developing and maintaining linguistic assets
• Influence upstream content operations for seamless, context-rich translations.
• Build localization metrics reports (turnaround, quality scores, cost per word)

Skills

Localization program management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Multilingual capability

Tools

Smartling

memoQ

Phrase

Job description

Twitch is seeking a Localization Program Manager to own the operational core of our localization program across 29 languages. You will coordinate vendors, content workflows, quality processes, and launch execution with product and engineering to deliver a native experience.

You can work from San Francisco, Irvine, or Seattle, with potential to grow scope over time. This role values measurable improvements, data-driven decisions, and scalable localization practices.