Arabic (Saudi Arabia) Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

Accountabilities

• Review, translate, localize, fact-check, and adapt sports-related content, with a primary focus on football, while consistently following established style guides, quality standards, and localization guidelines.


• Perform quality control on English (US) to Arabic (Saudi Arabia) content, ensuring accuracy, fluency, consistency, and appropriate cultural adaptation.


• Adapt audiovisual and other multimedia content to ensure that language, terminology, tone, and messaging resonate naturally with Saudi Arabian audiences.


• Conduct market-specific research into local sports content, football terminology, product language, cultural preferences, and localization trends.


• Apply extensive football knowledge to verify facts, terminology, references, and contextual details within localized content.


• Proofread and edit Arabic content to maintain excellent grammar, readability, consistency, and natural native-language expression.


• Provide clear and constructive feedback on written content to support quality improvements and more effective localization outcomes.


• Adjust voice, tone, and style where appropriate to reflect football fan culture, contemporary audiences, and different content formats.


• Manage assigned weekly workloads while maintaining high standards of accuracy and meeting project deadlines.

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and/or at least 2 years of professional experience in linguistics, translation, localization, sports journalism, copywriting, copy-editing, or a related discipline.


• Extensive knowledge of sports, particularly football, including familiarity with relevant terminology, competitions, players, teams, and football culture.


• Demonstrated experience in translation and localization of multimedia or audiovisual content; experience with machine translation and linguistic evaluation is an advantage.


• Native-level fluency in Arabic (Saudi Arabia) with excellent grammar, writing, proofreading, and editing skills.


• Strong English-language comprehension to accurately interpret and adapt source content from English (US).


• Excellent creative writing and editorial skills, with the ability to adapt content naturally rather than relying solely on literal translation.


• Strong cultural awareness and the ability to identify language, terminology, and content choices that may not resonate with the target market.


• Tech-savvy and comfortable working with computers, mobile devices, word-processing applications, spreadsheets, and digital content workflows.


• Practical proficiency with Microsoft Office applications and access to a licensed version of the required software.


• Strong attention to detail, organization, reliability, and the ability to work independently while managing assigned workloads.


• Bonus: Experience contributing published sports content to platforms such as ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or comparable publications.


• Bonus: Experience working with sports media platforms, live-score applications, sports streaming services, or other digital sports products.


• Bonus: Ability to adapt language and tone effectively for Gen Z audiences, football fan communities, and contemporary pop-culture contexts.

• Opportunity to work on international sports localization projects with a strong focus on football.


• Exposure to audiovisual, multimedia, translation, localization, and quality-control workflows.


• Opportunity to apply professional football expertise and Saudi Arabian cultural knowledge to globally distributed content.


• Flexible project-based work environment with the ability to work independently.


• Opportunity to contribute feedback and linguistic expertise to continuously improve localization quality.


• International collaboration with teams working across multiple markets and languages.


• Professional development through exposure to evolving localization technologies, multilingual content workflows, and machine-assisted language evaluation.


• Expected weekly workload of approximately 2,000 to 5,000 weighted words, depending on project requirements.

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