About BlaBlaCar
BlaBlaCar is the world’s leading community-based travel app enabling 27 million members a year to carpool or travel by bus in 21 countries. Our team of 800 employees counts over 50 nationalities and is spread across our 5 global offices, 30% working fully remotely.
As the Localization Operations Specialist, you will own the day-to-day localization run that keeps BlaBlaCar's product speaking 40+ locales across Android, iOS, and web. Your mission is to take full ownership of the recurring translation loop, from request intake to delivery, so that content reaches travelers in every market quickly, accurately, and on schedule.
You will run an AI-assisted localization pipeline end to end: triaging incoming requests, producing translations through our AI tooling, staging them for linguist review, and delivering them to the live product. You will be the operational backbone of the function during a period of automation and growth, holding the run reliably while the longer-term AI and strategy work moves forward in parallel.
You will work hand-in-hand with the Senior Localization Project Manager, who owns the assets, pipelines, and strategy, and partner closely with developers, Product Managers, content designers, and external linguists to keep the localization machine running smoothly.
Own the daily/weekly localization run: Take full ownership of the recurring loop — intake and triage of requests (Jira tickets and ad-hoc spreadsheets), AI translation through our tooling, staging for linguist review, and delivery to the product.
Run linguist review and job management: Handle the weekly review cycle — creating and grouping translation jobs, overseeing the automated publish, and answering linguist questions by tracing each string back to its source and closing the loop with the right person.
Keep quality high: Run the QA pass on each batch, act on validation flags (placeholders, plurals, do-not-translate terms), and fix reported localization bugs, both functional (truncation, layout, broken placeholders) and linguistic.
Experience: Prior experience in localization, translation operations, or a content / project-coordination role in a tech or scale-up environment. Comfortable owning a recurring operational process end to end.
Your role in it: You own the run. The Senior Localization Project Manager owns the linguistic assets, the AI pipelines and tooling, vendor and budget strategy, and the localization roadmap — with a handover gradient where some judgment-heavy items shift to you as you ramp.
Internal stakeholders: Developers, Product Managers, content designers, and the wider Product organization.
- This role is on a 4-months CDD contract from September to December, part time 3 days a week.
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4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves
50% healthcare coverage (Alan)
Financial support for home office equipment
Minimum 25 days holiday per year
Local meal plan policy (Swile card)
50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)
Free unlimited carpooling & bus rides
Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility programs
Employee Stock ownership plan
Regular team building events1 day off per year to test our product
1 day per year for social engagements with non-profits
A 45-minutes screening call with Barbara Carnet, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you and answer your first questions.
A 1-hour interview with Simon Rimbert, Senior Localization Project Manager, to deep dive into the role, your experience, and how you'd run the localization loop.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
