Localization Specialist

XBOW

18h • Remote

About The Position

XBOW is looking for a Localization Specialist to build and scale a world-class localization program across product, marketing, and communications. This is a high-impact, hands-on role responsible for ensuring that XBOW feels native, trustworthy, and technically precise across languages and regions.
This role is about more than translation. You’ll help define how XBOW’s product, research, and brand narratives travel globally, while building the systems and workflows that allow the company to ship multilingual content and experiences quickly and consistently.
As one of the earliest localization hires, you’ll set standards, select tools, establish workflows, and partner cross-functionally to integrate localization into how XBOW builds and launches.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with i18n engineering best practices and product localization workflows (string management, release pipelines).
• Familiarity with security terminology and working with technical subject-matter experts.
• Experience supporting global expansion and multi-region GTM programs.

Responsibilities

• Execute XBOW’s localization strategy and across web, documentation, campaigns, and communications.
• Define localization priorities and sequencing by market impact, customer needs, and business objectives.
• Help establish foundational localization systems: style guides, glossaries, terminology management, and translation memory practices.
• Build operating rhythms that ensure localization is proactive and embedded in the company’s workflows, not bolted on at the end.
• Partner with Marketing, Creative, and AR/PR to localize brand narratives, product launches, research releases, and ongoing campaigns.
• Guide transcreation for high-impact storytelling moments where literal translation would lose meaning, clarity, or edge.
• Ensure consistency of voice, tone, and messaging across channels and regions.
• Build a localization process that supports fast-moving campaigns and launch cycles without sacrificing quality.
• Evaluate and implement localization tooling (TMS, QA automation, glossary and style systems, collaboration workflows).
• Build and manage a network of translation and localization partners (vendors, agencies, freelancers) aligned with XBOW’s technical domain and quality bar.
• Create efficient review workflows with internal stakeholders and subject-matter experts.
• Establish scalable processes for content intake, prioritization, turnaround, and approval.
• Define and track localization performance metrics: quality, turnaround time, cost efficiency, rework rate, and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Build feedback loops and quality programs that continuously improve output and reduce translation friction over time.
• Identify upstream content issues that create localization risk, and partner with teams to improve source content quality.
• Establish standards for what “excellent” looks like and raise the bar across the organization.

Benefits

• Compensation & Equity: Competitive salary, clear performance-based incentives, and equity package, making you an integral part of XBOW’s growth story.
• Career Growth: Significant opportunities to progress within the sales organization and shape your career trajectory as we scale.
• Meaningful Work: You’ll directly impact XBOW’s mission to revolutionize cybersecurity and protect organizations worldwide.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed