Localization Intern

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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

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

                Some of the tools we're working with in Localization

Slack

Trello

Transifex

Google drive

Jira

Confluence