ASICS Apps – Localization Product Coordinator

Kihachiro Onitsuka founded ASICS in 1949 to realize his desire to nurture the youth of Japan through sports and contribute to the development of society. Our founding philosophy, “Anima Sana In Corpore Sano (A Sound Mind in a Sound Body)”, represents our wish for people all over the world to live healthful and happy lives in both body and mind.

The ASICS brand is especially well known for its connection to running and for producing extremely high-quality running shoes. To strengthen our commitment to runners, we are expanding our investment in running-related digital services, i.e. running event technology (Race Roster™), AI run-coaching apps (the ASICS Runkeeper™ app), and other exciting platforms that will help us better serve the running industry. Combined, these projects and products makeup ASICS Apps. 

Our mission?in the past, today, and into the future?is to contribute to a healthful and sustainable society and to bring joy to the people of the world through sports. Sports are an important element in living longer healthy lives, in feeling more fulfilled, and in crossing national and cultural boundaries to bring the world together. If you are looking to join a fun and innovative company focused on the booming digital health and fitness industry, this is the place for you!

Position Overview

As the Localization Product Coordinator you will be working closely with the Manager of Product Localization to manage the localization of all ASICS’ Apps. You will be relied upon to engage and build effective relationships with all key cross functional teams and stakeholders to understand global requirements, anticipate needs, influence, and influence localization best practices. Day to day, you will be responsible for proactively identifying, scoping, executing and iterating on process improvements to localization workflows to ensure on time delivery and high localization quality. This position requires a flexible working schedule to support colleagues and customers in international time zones, specifically the Japan Time Zone.

This position is open to internal and external candidates.

Product Line 

This role will be working with both the Race Roster and Runkeeper products.

Work Location

The successful candidate for this role can be either a satellite employee (working 100% remotely from a designated location within Canada or US), a hybrid employee (flexibility to work in the office or from home at a location within 75km/75 miles from the London, ON/Boston, MA office), an in office employee at our London, ON/Boston, MA office.

Job Responsibilities

• Work with the Manager of Product Localization to design and implement efficient and scalable end-to-end localization frameworks for multiple ASICS Apps products and content types (User Experience (UX) and User Interface (UI), legal, support, product marketing, App Store Optimization (ASO) keywords, etc) 
• Guide product teams across apps to ensure localizability and internationalization best practices are followed  
• Actively partner with internal and external stakeholders, such as product managers, developers, product designers, regional teams, vendors, legal/compliance, marketing, support, to support end to end localization of all things related to ASICS Apps and ensure a consistent global experience 
• Coordinate linguistic quality assurance (LQA) projects, linguistic testing and provide feedback to vendors
• Maintain term base and style guides and provide training to linguists to assure high quality translations
• Meaningfully participate in diversity and inclusion initiatives across the ASICS Apps teams

Education & Experience

• 1+ years of experience in localization 
• Bachelors of Arts or Science  in translation, languages or related field, or multiple years experience in localization
• Thorough understanding of translation technologies: translation memories, translation management systems, machine translation, etc. 
• Experience localizing native apps or web apps  
• Communication experience working across time zones and cultures

Bonus Experience

• Experience using Crowdin 
• Experience in fast paced agile product development environments 
• Knowledge of additional languages other than English is a plus, preferred proficiency in Japanese

Performance Measures

• Effective completion of assigned tasks
• Efficient use of time and resources
• Continuously learning and improving in your role
• Quality of work performed
• Ability to communicate effectively with other employees at all levels of the organization

The successful candidate for this role will become an employee of Race Roster North America Corporation (RRNA), a subsidiary of ASICS Corporation – a Japanese multinational corporation. Race Roster was founded in London, Ontario in 2011.


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