German Sports Localization Specialist (Football)

Accountabilities

• Review, translate, localize, fact-check, and adapt sports-related content, with a primary focus on football, from US English into German.


• Perform quality control on audiovisual and multimedia content while maintaining accuracy, consistency, tone, and adherence to applicable style guides.


• Research German-market content, terminology, product trends, and localization practices to ensure content resonates with the target audience.


• Provide constructive feedback on localized and written content to improve linguistic quality and audience relevance.


• Adapt language and editorial style to different audiences, including football fans, younger audiences, and contemporary pop-culture communities.


• Manage an expected weekly weighted volume of approximately 2,000–5,000 words while maintaining high standards of accuracy and consistency.


• Apply strong proofreading and editing judgment to identify grammatical, stylistic, cultural, and factual issues.


• Work independently in a remote environment and manage assigned workloads, deadlines, and quality expectations effectively.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, with 2+ years of experience in linguistics, translation, localization, sports journalism, copywriting, copy-editing, or a related field.


• Extensive knowledge of sports, particularly football, with the ability to understand relevant terminology, competitions, teams, players, and fan culture.


• Native-level fluency in German and excellent grammar, writing, editing, and proofreading skills in the target language.


• Professional experience translating or localizing multimedia content; experience with machine translation and evaluation is an advantage.


• Strong creative writing skills and the ability to adapt voice, tone, and messaging naturally for German-speaking audiences.


• Excellent research and fact-checking abilities, with strong attention to linguistic and factual detail.


• Practical proficiency with computers, mobile devices, word-processing applications, spreadsheets, and other common digital tools.


• Ownership of a licensed version of Microsoft Office applications.


• Ability to work independently, meet deadlines, manage high-volume assignments, and maintain consistent quality in a remote setting.


• Published sports-related work for outlets such as ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or comparable platforms is a strong advantage.


• Experience with sports media platforms, live-score applications, sports streaming services, or similar digital products is desirable.


• Familiarity with Gen Z communication, football fan culture, and pop-culture language is a plus.

• Fully remote work arrangement with the flexibility to work from Anywhere.


• Opportunity to contribute to international sports localization projects and global content experiences.


• Work that combines professional language expertise with football and sports interests.


• Exposure to multilingual localization, audiovisual content, and evolving translation technologies.


• Flexible, independent working environment suited to remote professionals.


• Opportunity to collaborate with a global network of linguistic and localization specialists.


• Potential to build experience across sports media, localization, quality assurance, and multilingual content.

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