Linguistic Coordinator (Russian)

Position Overview:
Anakan GmbH is seeking a Linguistic Coordinator with demonstrated organizational, leadership, and supervisory abilities to manage our client’s projects.
The successful candidate will coordinate linguistic projects with in-house and freelance translators, in terms of schedule and production, within a given budget, and be responsible of validating freelancers’ invoices of assigned projects.

This position is full-time and in-house at the Anakan office in Berlin.

Responsibilities:
- Assigning work to translators in-house as well as freelancers, setting guidelines and supervising work in progress.
- Preparing, packaging, sending, and receiving files for translation and linguistic QA.
- Maintain product specific glossaries, translation memories, and any other linguistic material, and ensure the consistent use of them.
- Actively coordinate the resolution of linguistic issues.
- Work with other members of the group, in a team or as a project lead, respecting all procedures.
- Ensure core product teams produce localization kits and certification kits prior to localization project launches.
- Proofreading of translations.

Requirements:
- Enjoys managing several products simultaneously and is able to easily switch context between projects
- Possesses excellent cross-functional negotiation and communication skills
- Native speaker of Russian as well as an excellent command of the English language (source language of texts) is essential
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral
- Translation experience is required
- Linguistic Degree is a real plus
- Strong team player
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Ability to research in depth a variety of subjects
- Flexible and proactive approach to tackling tasks
- Understands and can clearly communicate on software engineering
- Use MS Project, MS Office, CAT software