Senior Spanish Language Strategy Lead

City of New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

The Campaign Finance Board seeks a Language Strategy Manager to lead Spanish linguistic strategy, localization, and QA across agency content. You will coordinate with Marketing and Public Relations to ensure culturally resonant messaging, and you’ll strengthen internal linguistic capacity and workflows.

You will manage the Spanish-language team and drive end-to-end language services for campaigns, including translation, transcreation, and localization, with a focus on NYC voters and candidates.

Qualifications

• Spanish linguistics expertise and cultural competency.
• Experience managing translation teams.
• Knowledge of translation management systems.
• Ability to lead high-volume Spanish deliverables.
• Experience with multilingual campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Lead Spanish-language translation, transcreation, localization.
• Manage QA processes and glossaries.
• Guide language strategy for campaigns.
• Collaborate with Marketing, PR, and Digital.
• Lead team development and capacity planning.

Skills

Spanish linguistics

Cultural competency

Leadership

Translation management

Quality assurance

Education

Bachelor's degree

ATA certification

Tools

RWS Trados

Smartling

MemoQ

Job description

The Campaign Finance Board seeks a Language Strategy Manager to lead Spanish linguistic strategy, localization, and QA across agency content. You will coordinate with Marketing and Public Relations to ensure culturally resonant messaging, and you’ll strengthen internal linguistic capacity and workflows.

You will manage the Spanish-language team and drive end-to-end language services for campaigns, including translation, transcreation, and localization, with a focus on NYC voters and candidates.