Dutch Sports Localization SME Role | MTPE & NLP Skills in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This role sits at the intersection of sports journalism, localization, and AI/NLP data services — a niche but growing field as major tech platforms increasingly need culturally adapted sports content for machine learning training datasets.
Skills you'll develop:
- Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) — a highly marketable skill as AI translation tools proliferate
- Localization quality control workflows used by enterprise clients
- Sports content writing and adaptation for digital platforms — transferable to media, betting, and streaming industries
Compensation: No salary is listed, which is a yellow flag. Welocalize typically engages freelancers/contractors for these roles rather than full-time employees. Market rates for MTPE and localization SME work range from $0.03–$0.10/word or $20–$50/hour depending on the client and task complexity.
Culture signals: Welocalize is a large, established localization company (not a startup) with global infrastructure. Expect structured workflows, style guides, and volume-based work rather than creative autonomy. This is a good stepping stone into the broader language services or sports media industry.
Green flags: Work-from-anywhere flexibility, exposure to AI/NLP content pipelines, and a globally recognized employer name on your CV. Red flag: No compensation transparency and likely freelance/contract status means no employment benefits.
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 of the Job
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) > Dutch (Netherlands)
- 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 in 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 (Dutch, Netherlands)
- 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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