Localization Intern

Tiqets is an award-winning tech scale-up headquartered in the Netherlands. We are hiring a Localization Intern to join our mission to bring the world more ways to culture!

Internship · Amsterdam

Who are we?

We are revolutionizing the way people buy tickets to unforgettable experiences at the best destinations all over the world. Our technology makes planning easy for thousands of travelers to find all the experiences they don't want to miss during their trip (museums, zoos, theme parks, and more), so they can book all their tickets in one place.

We are an international company committed to making culture accessible to our customers and our employees. We embed diversity, equity, and inclusion into our company fiber organically.

These values are promoted from the inside out and we strive to represent and honor differences in gender, race, religion, and sexual orientation in our company culture, our content, and our product.

Our values

We are remarkable: Have fun, be creative, and celebrate great moments!
We are accessible: Communicate honestly and support each other
We are adaptable: Learn, adapt, and pivot. That's who we are!

What you will do

As a Localization Intern, you will learn everything about localization project management at Tiqets, while supporting the team in daily tasks and projects.

You will coordinate localization requests between internal stakeholders, in-house Localization Specialists (linguists) and external localization vendor
You will learn to carry out Localization Checks to ensure the content in the source language (English) is localizable and linguists have all the necessary context they need
You will coordinate tasks assigned to an external translation vendor, ensuring relevant instructions are shared with them, answer questions to facilitate project deliveries, as well as making sure the right file formats are sent over for translations and import translations in our internal systems
You will interact daily with Localization Specialists regarding assignments, due dates, etc. to ensure projects are being completed in a timely manner
You will analyze relevant data to select what content should be localized/optimized and coordinate their localization/optimization with Localization Specialists and our external localization vendor
You will work with our translation and content management systems, while learning about machine translation technologies
You will assist the Localization team members in their various projects

Requirements

Living in or close to Amsterdam (and are able to come to our Amsterdam office minimum 3 days a week)
This internship is available with a start date of April 1st 2025
Available for a period of 6 months, full time (40 hours, 5 days a week)
Currently enrolled in a course of study and will remain so for the duration of the internship! If you graduated already, we cannot proceed
Study related to localisation, translation or languages
Fluency in English
Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate with team members, other teams and external vendor
Excellent organizational and time management skills to handle multiple tasks and projects simultaneously and meet deadlines
Excellent attention to detail to spot errors or issues in source text (English) and translations, with a strong focus on quality
Ability to work in a team, learn quickly and adapt to as fast changing environment
Experience with CAT tools is a plus

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Life at Tiqets

Perks & Benefits at Tiqets

Vibrant, dynamic, international working environment
Internship and travel allowance
Bright, welcoming office located in Amsterdam, 5 minutes by foot from Amstel station
Mental health support through our partnership with OpenUp
Friday drinks and parties to celebrate our accomplishments
Biweekly show-and-tell sessions with useful presentations from various team members, pizza and beer included
20% personal Tiqets discount code for all of our products
Opportunity to make an impact in the fastest-growing tech scale-up