Associate Localization Program Manager

About the role

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Job Category

User Experience

The Experience

As an Associate Localization Program Manager on our Tech COO Localization team, you will play a key role in ensuring our suite of products delivers a world-class user experience for our international customers. You will partner with engineers, product teams, and our localization experts to drive efficient, scalable, and high-quality localization processes. This is a dynamic role perfect for a technically-minded localization professional ready to grow, learn, and contribute to our fast-paced product environment.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Process Improvement: Partner with team members to enhance product localization delivery, focusing on upstream development efficiencies.
• Release Management: Support assigned product teams to ensure efficient, timely, and high-quality localization releases for international customers.
• Vendor Collaboration: Manage scalable localization handoffs and deliveries, maintaining strong communication channels to ensure vendor and project success.
• Technical Innovation: Collaborate with engineers to automate processes and integrate AI-based tooling to boost productivity.
• Project/Program Leadership: Manage end-to-end technical localization projects, including scope, scheduling, and execution.
• Quality Assurance: Lead QA processes, perform troubleshooting/bug fixing, and identify opportunities to scale testing efforts.
• Knowledge Sharing: Document workflows and best practices; maintain open communication with the team to share insights.
• Global Readiness: Educate product, engineering, and design teams on localization best practices, ensuring localization is integrated early in the development lifecycle.

You're Our Person If

• 2-3 years of hands-on localization project or program management experience.
• Bachelor's degree in a field related to language, management, localization, technology, or equivalent experience.
• Strong technical understanding of localization and internationalization principles.
• Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and tools rapidly.
• A strong enthusiasm for AI-based tools is required; demonstrated experience using AI-powered tooling to automate tasks is a strong plus.
• Proficiency with common file formats (e.g. XML, HTML, JSON, Markdown, XLIFF).
• Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• Passion for languages, high energy, and a positive, collaborative attitude.
• Experience or exposure to Translation Management Systems (TMS) and project management methodologies.

Unleash Your Potential

When you join Salesforce, you'll be limitless in all areas of your life. Our benefits and resources support you to find balance and be your best, and our AI agents accelerate your impact so you can do your best. Together, we'll bring the power of Agentforce to organizations of all sizes and deliver amazing experiences that customers love. Apply today to not only shape the future - but to redefine what's possible - for yourself, for AI, and the world.

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At Salesforce, we believe in equitable compensation practices that reflect the dynamic nature of labor markets across various regions. The typical base salary range for this position is $80,900 - $122,300 annually. In select cities within the San Francisco and New York City metropolitan area, the base salary range for this role is $97,400 - $134,000 annually. The range represents base salary only, and does not include company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity or benefits, as applicable.