Localization Lead

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About The Role

We are looking for a Localization Lead to drive and scale our AI-driven translation platform and localization strategy. This candidate will own our MT & LLM translation pipelines and our translation quality programs to simultaneously improve localization quality and efficiency. They will pursue innovative initiatives as the advancement of LLM technology unlocks new possibilities. This candidate will have the opportunity to lead a small, scrappy team while collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, local market teams, and localization vendors.

What You Will Do

• Own the strategy for high-quality, automated translation workflows across more than a dozen different languages, driving our processes for machine & human translation and reviews
• Lead the development of scalable translation quality measurement
• Identify and pursue opportunities to improve language quality, like term glossaries, automated source content review and context injection
• Drive the introduction of translation pipelines that extend beyond Rippling product & marketing content, to include customer-generated content
  
  

What You Will Need

• 7 years of experience in technical program management, business operations, or localization management
• Expertise in applying AI tools, machine translation, or LLMs to improve localization workflows
• Self-starter with a bias towards action and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional interpersonal communication & organizational skills
• Ability to motivate and inspire people to do their best work
• Strong alignment with Rippling's leadership principles, particularly 'Push the limits of possible', 'Go and see' and 'Are right, a lot'
  
  

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.

The pay range for this role is:

105,000 - 183,750 USD per year(US Tier 1)

94,500 - 165,375 USD per year(US Tier 2)

89,250 - 156,188 USD per year(US Tier 3)