What are the responsibilities and job description for the Japanese Translator position at Fisher Investments?
Overview
The Opportunity:
As part of the firm's in-house translation team, you will provide translation services to internal clients across Sales, Service, Research, Content, Marketing, Legal and Compliance, and others. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company and support Fisher Investments in our globalisation efforts and communications strategy. You will quickly learn about our business, industry, and writing style as you translate our educational, promotional, and service-oriented content across the markets we operate in. You will be paired up with countries or markets that match your linguistic background and serve as the primary language expert for internal clients across the firm, while playing an important role in our ability to fulfil translation needs. You will report directly to the in-house translation team leader.
The Day-to-Day:
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
The Opportunity:
As part of the firm's in-house translation team, you will provide translation services to internal clients across Sales, Service, Research, Content, Marketing, Legal and Compliance, and others. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company and support Fisher Investments in our globalisation efforts and communications strategy. You will quickly learn about our business, industry, and writing style as you translate our educational, promotional, and service-oriented content across the markets we operate in. You will be paired up with countries or markets that match your linguistic background and serve as the primary language expert for internal clients across the firm, while playing an important role in our ability to fulfil translation needs. You will report directly to the in-house translation team leader.
The Day-to-Day:
- Be the primary language expert for internal clients and help facilitate all translation-related requests
- Develop tone and language style guides for each market you service
- Develop and maintain terminology bases for your target language
- Showcase excellent written and verbal communication skills to localise multiple content types such as financial, marketing, legal and educational materials
- Be a reviewer for specialised materials by editing translated material produced by in-house colleagues and external translation vendors
- Excel in quality management and proofreading
- Translate capital markets related content such as educational brochures, articles, marketing ads, websites and presentations from English into Japanese
- Ad-hoc projects as directed by management
- Japanese native speaker; fluency in English is required
- Degree in Translation, Linguistics, Communications, or other professional certification related to translation or localisation
- 2 years of experience in translation, editing, or content production
- Experience in the field of finance and capital markets is advantageous
- Knowledge of CAT tools, TMS technology, and translation practices is beneficial
- Experience editing for clarity, grammar, spelling, consistency and accuracy with few revisions needed
- Manage complexity and coordinate across several departments under strict timelines
- Client focus with desire to support our global growth
We work for a bigger purpose: bettering the investment universe. We take great pride in our inclusive culture, our learning and development framework customized for every employee, and our Great Place to Work Certification. It's the people that make the Fisher purpose possible, and we invest in them by offering exceptional benefits like:
- 100% paid medical, dental and vision premiums for you and your qualifying dependents
- A 50% 401(k) match, up to the IRS maximum
- 20 days of PTO, plus 10 paid holidays
- Family Support programs including 8 week Paid Primary Caregiver Leave, $10,000 fertility, family forming, and hormonal health assistance, and back-up child, adult, and elder care
- This is an in-office role. Based on your role, tenure, and performance eligibility you may have the opportunity to participate in our hybrid work from home program. This program is subject to change.
