Freelance Traditional Chinese & US Spanish Translators for Automotive Project

Wordbank is currently looking for several US Spanish and Traditional Chinese linguists based in the US to work on a large potential project that will run from early July to October/November 2016. This is for a major automotive brand who is building new sites targeting US Spanish and US Traditional Chinese populations. We will be building teams of translators, editors, and proofreaders to work on different batches of the content. Each batch per team will be roughly 11,000 for the first phase and 6,000 words for the second phase. There may also be some on-page keyword placement needed as well to support SEO efforts which we can provide training on. We are expecting to start on this effort in early July and would aim to hold kickoff calls and training sessions starting around that time. Required: Mother-tongue Traditional Chinese or US Spanish Current US resident Own and be proficient with using SDL Trados Studio 2011, 2014, or 2015 Specialization in Marketing and Automotive content 5 years professional translation experience Be willing and able to share information and work with a large team for consistency Flexible and responsive Able to follow detailed written instructions Available for kickoff calls and training prior to project start Preferred, but not required: Familiar with SEO keyword placement while translating. We can provide training if this is needed. Founded in 1988, Wordbank ([login to view URL]) is a boutique marketing localization agency that specializes in international marketing and language services. We help our clients identify markets to develop and implement marketing strategy, localize content for those markets, design, build and manage international websites, test advertising concepts in each locale, and run multilingual SEO and PPC. We have an impressive client list comprising both B2C and B2B brands such as De Beers, Hilton and Disney, to name a few. As part of our quality and recruitment process, we require you to carry out a short test translation free of charge (not for publication). If you are interested, please send your CV plus your rates for translation (based on 1000 words of source text), your hourly rate for editing (for style/consistency) and proofreading (just checking for spelling/hyphenation/punctuation). FYI: With regards to payments, we generally settle invoices by bank transfer, check or international draft at the end of month following the month of the invoice. We do not use payment methods like PayPal or Moneybookers.