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Amazon Trilingual Technical Translation Specialist English and Japanese/Korean/Mandarin in Dublin, Ireland
Description
Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with recent examples of being named #1 in customer service, #1 most trusted, and #2 most innovative. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in Cloud technologies.
As a member of the AWS Cloud Support team, a Technical Translation Specialist will assist the creation of an environment for non-native English customers to utilize the information and content that AWS support publishes, and will support non-native English support engineers in working effectively with English information.
We are seeking people with strong Japanese/Korean/Mandarin and English language skills. Understanding AWS service basics and general IT technical terms, you will need to translate documents from English into Japanese/Korean/Mandarin, create Japanese/Korean/Mandarin subtitles for short videos, and streamline our localization and translation processes.
We would also welcome the ability to provide live translations between English and Japanese/Korean/Mandarin during internal video conferences. If you fit the description, you might be the person we are looking for!
Every day will bring new and exciting challenges on the such as:
● translating public and internal documents.
● creating Japanese/Korean/Mandarin subtitles for short videos.
● performing live translation between English and Japanese/Korean/Mandarin for internal video and audio conference calls.
● translating training material for our support teams.
● translating knowledge-base documents from Japanese/Korean/Mandarin into English.
● reviewing the English language quality of internal communications within our support ticket system.
● delivering English communication training to our support teams.
● translating notifications and announcements sent to our Japanese/Korean/Mandarin customers.
● promoting our documents and videos on social media.
● grading English examination results of hiring candidates and employees.
● leading of an initiative to evaluate systems to assess the English language skills of hiring candidates.
● finding items to be localized in the team, prioritizing those items with a manager, and building a collaboration scheme with the localization team.
● contributing to the overall improvement of the customer experience from a local language support point of view.
"As we operate on a follow-the-sun model, with Premium Support sites located globally, working hours and days are based on customer demand and may include weekends (on a rotational basis)”
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Dublin, D, IRL
Basic Qualifications
● Strong Writing and speaking English skills and Japanese/Korean/Mandarin
● Bachelor's degree or equivalent level of knowledge acquired from relevant job experience
● Job-related experience with the translation between English and Japanese/Korean/Mandarin
● Excellent oral and written Japanese/Korean/Mandarin communication skills
● Ability to quickly learn technical terms for utilization in translation activities
● Having strong multitasking skills
● Streamlining job processes when needed
● Having a strong customer focus
Preferred Qualifications
● Experience working as an engineer or an agent
● Experience creating external technical documentation
● Live translation and interpretation between English and Japanese/Korean/Mandarin
● Experience working with customers
● Experience in identifying and implementing improvements to operational procedures
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