Remote Football Localization SME - Ukrainian at Welocalize — Columbus
Traveler-Friendly Insight
This role is highly compatible with a location-independent, digital nomad lifestyle. The job explicitly requires the ability to work independently and remotely, and there is no mention of fixed office hours, required timezone, or mandatory video calls — making it strongly async-friendly.
Since this is a freelance/contractor-style linguistics role (project-based translation, MTPE, and quality control), you can likely pick up tasks on your own schedule. This is ideal for nomads who move across time zones frequently. The sole hard requirement is native-level Ukrainian fluency, which defines your linguistic profile rather than your physical location.
For Ukrainian-speaking nomads, popular bases to consider include:
- Tbilisi, Georgia — Very affordable (~$800–1,200/month), no visa required for Ukrainians for up to 365 days, strong expat community
- Warsaw, Poland — Familiar culture, EU access, roughly $1,500–2,000/month depending on lifestyle
- Chiang Mai, Thailand — Classic nomad hub, ~$900–1,400/month; Thailand offers a 60-day tourist visa extendable by 30 days
No travel-specific perks (coworking stipend, equipment budget) are mentioned, so budget accordingly. This role suits nomads who want a supplementary or primary income stream with maximum schedule flexibility — especially those already working in sports media or linguistics.
As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources.
Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Main Purpose of the Job
Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent Sports Subject Matter Experts specialized in football with exceptional writing skills to join our localization team. You'll review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt football-related content so it resonates with audiences in your market.
Project Details:
- Language Pair: English (US) > Ukrainian (Ukraine)
- Task Type: Quality Control, Translation, Copy Edit, MTPE
- Assessment: Grammar + SME knowledge
Main Duties
- Review, localize, fact check, translate, and adapt sports-related content, mainly football, while adhering to writing style guides and guidelines
- Conduct market-specific research on local content, product and terminology trends, and best localization practices for the target audience in your market
- Provide feedback on written content
Required Skills
- BS/BA and/or 2+ years of work experience in the linguistic field, sports journalism, copywriting, or copy-editing
- Extensive sports knowledge, mainly football
- Experience in translation and localization of multimedia content, preferably also machine translations and evaluations
- Native-level fluency in the target language (Ukrainian)
- Excellent grammar and writing skills in the native language
- Strong creative writing, proofreading, and editing skills in the native language
- Tech savvy: strong practical knowledge of computers and mobile devices, word processors, and spreadsheets
- Owning a licensed version of MS Office apps
- Ability to work independently and remotely
Bonus If You Have:
- Published work on platforms like ESPN, The Athletic, FourFourTwo, or similar
- Experience working with sports media platforms, live score apps, or sports streaming services
- A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z, football fan culture, and pop culture audiences
After your application is reviewed, shortlisted candidates will be contacted by our team to complete the application process.
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