French Translator

**Nombre de vacante**

French Translator - Product Localisation

**Descripción**

We’re looking for a native French-speaking Translator to help us deliver an exceptional local experience for Sage customers in France. You’ll be responsible for translating and localising customer-facing content, from UI elements to product help and documentation, ensuring clarity, compliance, and alignment with Sage’s tone of voice. This role is key to making complex regulatory and technical information simple, accurate, and user-friendly.

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our Barcelona office.

Your First 90 Days
- 30 days - Familiarise yourself with Sage products, our content style guide, localisation processes, and terminology tools. Begin translating and reviewing small sets of content.
- 60 days - Take ownership of specific content streams (e.g., product help, UI labels). Ensure linguistic consistency across platforms and collaborate with teams to clarify source content.

What You’ll Do
- Translate and transcreate product help articles, documentation, and in-app content into French
- Localise UI labels, tooltips, onboarding guides, and customer communications for the French market
- Conduct linguistic reviews of French content across web and mobile platforms
- Collaborate with product managers, UX writers, and engineers to clarify context and resolve ambiguities
- Maintain consistency with Sage’s tone of voice, terminology, and content standards
- Ensure all translations comply with local regulations and are culturally appropriate
- Contribute to continuous improvement of localisation processes and tools

Meet the Team
You’ll work within the localisation and content team, collaborating closely with product managers, designers, UX writers, and engineers. The team is passionate about delivering a seamless experience to customers worldwide while ensuring quality and compliance in every market.

How Success Will Be Measured
- Delivery of accurate, clear, and compliant French content
- Consistency with Sage terminology and tone of voice across all platforms
- Timely turnaround of translation tasks without compromising quality
- Positive feedback from internal stakeholders and end users
- Contribution to process improvements in localisation and translation

Skills You’ll Gain
- Expertise in product localisation for SaaS and regulatory-driven markets
- Experience collaborating in Agile product teams
- Proficiency with translation tools and terminology management
- Knowledge of UX writing principles, accessibility and multilingual content strategy

**Responsabilidades principales**

Snapshot of Your Day-to-Day
You’ll spend your day translating and adapting content for the French market, reviewing in-app text and documentation, and ensuring compliance with linguistic and regulatory standards. You’ll also work closely with product and UX teams to deliver the best possible localised experience.

**Qualifications**:

- Native French-speaking, with excellent command of English
- Proven experience in translation and localisation for software or digital products
- Strong understanding of French regulatory and compliance language standards
- Ability to simplify complex concepts into clear and user-friendly language
- Excellent attention to detail and consistency

Nice to Have
- Experience with translation management systems (e.g., SDL Trados, Phrase)
- Familiarity with UX writing and UI localisation best practices
- Knowledge of Agile workflows and cross-functional collaboration
- Background in HR, Payroll, or financial software terminology

At Sage, we offer you an environment where you can grow professionally without compromising your personal well-being. Our benefits package is designed to provide stability, flexibility, and balance:

- Flexible benefits: exchange part of your salary and make tax savings on health insurance, meal and transport vouchers, childcare, and training.
- Well-being: Free access to the Calm app (for up to 5 users), 24/7 counselling, and emotional support from our Healthy Mind Coaches. We also offer self-care and parenting resources through the Cleo app.
- Flexible working: flexibility of working one hour in, one hour out, shortened workdays on Fridays and during the summer, and the opportunity to work from over 40 countries for up to 10 weeks per year through our Work Away program.
- Annual leave: 23 working days of vacation, 5 paid days per year for volunteering, and 5 additional paid days annually for personal or professional development.
- Extended leave: 7 extra days of maternity leave and 5 extra days of paternity leave, on top of the legal allowance, available after one year of service.
- Financial support: Life and disability insurance, salary advances of up to 3.5 times your net monthly pay, a €300 net marriage bonus, and access to Sage's employee stock purchase plan at a discounted rate.

Health and Safety Responsibilities
- Fostering the safety culture, by leading with your own exa