OpenAI

Localization Manager

OpenAI • $120K — $150K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years experience managing localization programs in technology or consumer environments
  • Strong record of multi-market marketing localization and transcreation
  • Experience managing language specialists and vendors
  • Excellent localization judgment and quality calibration skills
  • Hands-on experience with localization and creative-production systems
  • Strong program-management habits for scope, prioritization, and communication
  • Ability to adapt to ambiguity and manage parallel workflows
  • Proficient with AI tools like Codex for planning and executing workflows
  • Technical fluency for building automations and integrations

Responsibilities

  • Own concurrent localization programs from intake to delivery
  • Translate creative briefs into localization plans covering market and asset scope
  • Lead transcreation and cultural vetting of various content formats
  • Brief and coordinate with language specialists and creative teams
  • Contribute to terminology decisions and maintain glossaries
  • Lead linguistic quality reviews and provide remediation guidance
  • Partner with production teams to execute localized work across systems
  • Improve localization workflows with API-based automations
  • Build AI-enabled feedback systems to enhance quality
  • Establish market-specific quality controls and automated checks

Benefits

  • Collaborative, fast-paced work environment
  • Opportunities to innovate in localization processes
  • Impactful role in enhancing global brand presence
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools
  • Work with diverse teams across multiple markets
Full Job Description
About the Role

OpenAI is looking for a Localization Manager to deliver high-quality localized marketing creative at scale across our highest-priority markets, products, and B2C and B2B audiences. This role owns creative localization from brief through final delivery, combining strong localization judgment with hands-on workflow design and automation.

In this role, you will
  • Own a portfolio of concurrent localization programs from intake and scoping through delivery, tracking dependencies, risks, deadlines, and decisions across markets.
  • Translate creative and campaign briefs into localization plans that define market coverage, asset scope, workflow, context, review rounds, owners, and acceptance criteria.
  • Lead transcreation and cultural vetting across static and motion creative, video and subtitles, social copy, prompts, push notifications, and app-store content.
  • Brief and coordinate language specialists, market leads, regional partners, localization vendors, creative agencies, producers, and designers; create clear instructions that enable high-quality work across time zones.
  • Contribute to terminology and localizability decisions, maintain shared glossaries and guidance, and ensure localized creative assets adhere to established language and market policies.
  • Lead linguistic and in-context quality review, consolidate specialist feedback, validate implementation, distinguish ship-blocking issues from preferences, and provide clear final approval or remediation guidance.
  • Partner with creative and production teams to make localized work executable across many production and delivery systems.
  • Continuously improve localization workflows by prototyping and maintaining API-based automations, connectors, and lightweight internal tools
  • Build AI-enabled feedback and quality systems that turn market insight into reusable guidance, validate review outputs, and surface inconsistencies while preserving human judgment.
  • Establish quality controls appropriate to each market, content type, and level of risk, with automated verification to check review outputs, surface inconsistencies, and strengthen human judgment.
  • Maintain clear reporting on progress, tradeoffs, launch readiness, and the business impact of the work.

You might thrive in this role if you have
  • 7+ years of experience managing localization programs in fast-moving technology or consumer environments with complex creative-production needs.
  • A strong record of delivering multi-market marketing localization and transcreation across several content types and production formats.
  • Experience managing language specialists and vendors, including briefing, capacity management, quality calibration, feedback, and escalation.
  • Excellent localization judgment: you can separate linguistic correctness, cultural resonance, brand preference, implementation defects, and genuine launch risk.
  • Hands-on experience with localization and creative-production systems, including TMS, CMS, Figma, Frame.io, and project-management tools; comfort learning and connecting new systems quickly.
  • Strong program-management habits, including scope definition, prioritization, dependency management, deadline control, and concise stakeholder communication.
  • Ability to operate through ambiguity, changing creative, compressed timelines, and many parallel workstreams.
  • Skill at influencing cross-functional partners without relying on formal authority and at building trust with regional and language experts.
  • A demonstrated AI-native working style, with Codex used daily to plan and execute work, analyze information, and continuously improve workflows.
  • The technical fluency to independently prototype, build, troubleshoot, and maintain lightweight automations and integrations using APIs, connectors, and scripting, with the ability to work independently across technical workflows.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an artificial intelligence research laboratory consisting of the for-profit corporation OpenAI LP and its parent company, the non-profit OpenAI Inc. The company was founded in 2015 by a group of technology leaders, including Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, and John Schulman. OpenAI's mission is to develop and promote friendly AI for the betterment of humanity. The company has developed a number of cutting-edge AI technologies, including GPT-3, a language processing system that can generate human-like text. OpenAI has received funding from a number of high-profile investors, including LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
Learn more about OpenAI
Size
100 employees
Industry
Information Technology
Founded
2015
* Ladders Estimates

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