Czech Football SME Translator at Welocalize | Grow Skills in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This role sits at the intersection of sports journalism, localization, and AI/NLP data services — a niche that is growing rapidly as tech companies invest heavily in multilingual sports content and machine learning training data.
Skills developed:
- Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) — increasingly in demand as AI translation scales up across industries
- Sports content localization and cultural adaptation — specialized and hard to replicate
- Quality control workflows within large localization pipelines
- Familiarity with Welocalize's enterprise-grade localization ecosystem
Compensation: No salary is disclosed, which is common for freelance/contract localization roles at Welocalize. Typical MTPE rates in the industry range from $0.03–$0.08 per word, while translation/copy-edit rates can be $0.10–$0.18 per word. Monthly earnings will vary significantly based on project volume.
Career signals:
- Green flag: Welocalize is a major global player — this adds credible brand-name experience to your CV and opens doors in the localization industry.
- Green flag: The MTPE + AI training data angle future-proofs your skill set in an era of AI-assisted translation.
- Yellow flag: Freelance/contract nature means no guaranteed hours, no benefits, and income instability — best treated as a portfolio-building or supplemental income role unless volume is confirmed.
Ideal for Czech-speaking professionals looking to break into the global localization market or supplement sports journalism work with consistent project-based income.
As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Overview & Main Purpose
Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent Sports Subject Matter Experts specialized in football with exceptional writing skills to join our localization team. You'll review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt football-related content so it resonates with audiences in your market.
Project Details:
- Language Pair: English (US) > Czech (Czech Republic)
- Task Type: Quality Control, Translation, Copy Edit, MTPE
- Assessment: Grammar + SME knowledge
Main Duties
- Review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt sports-related content, mainly football, while adhering to writing style guides and guidelines
- Conduct market-specific research on local content, product and terminology trends, and best localization practices for the target audience in your market
- Provide feedback on written content
Required Skills
- BS/BA and/or 2+ years of work experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or copy-editing
- Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football
- Experience in translation and localization of multimedia content, preferably also machine translations and evaluations
- Native-level fluency in the target language (Czech)
- Excellent grammar and writing skills in the native language
- Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing skills in the native language
- Tech savvy: strong practical knowledge of computers and mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets
- Owning a licensed version of MS Office apps
- Ability to work independently and remotely
Bonus If You Have:
- Published work on platforms like ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or similar.
- Experience working with sports media platforms, live score apps, or sports streaming services.
- A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z, football fan culture, and pop culture audiences.
After your application is reviewed, shortlisted candidates will be contacted by our team to complete the application process.
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