Australian English Metadata Curator (Movies & TV Shows)

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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 77,000 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.

The Metadata Ops team ensures the client's products have the metadata quality and coverage needed to offer the best-in-class customer experience. Curators will work cooperatively with international teams to monitor, curate and improve the quality of our products and partner data integrations.  

Job Responsibilities: 
 
Verify content accuracy, ensuring it meets the provided standards 
Make possible edits, fixes or suggestions to the data content when needed 
Make decisions on content often with limited information on hand 
Report any patterns of issues observed to help improve database and product performance 
Test tools to provide feedback for improving efficiency and accuracy 
Work and communicate with cross-functional teams 

Location: Austin, TX
Project Duration: One year with a possible extension of 6 more months
Pay rate: $23 an hour (Full time hours (40 hours a week) and on-site attendance is required )
Working Hours / Schedule: 4-week training: M-F 9am-6pm (40 hours)
Regular hours: Sun-Thurs or Tue-Sat 12-9pm (40 hours)
Must be flexible to support client's featured project when needed. 9am-5:30pm / 4pm-12:30am

Qualifications and Skills:

  • Native-level proficiency in English (Australia)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills  
  • Proven ability to maintain motivation and solid focus through hours of repetitive tasks 
  • Highly detail-oriented with ability to multitask and meet deadlines in a high-pressure environment 
  • Sharp problem solving and analytical skills, along with ability to learn from history and prevent errors from recurring 
  • Comfortable with navigating ambiguity to make sound judgment calls 
  • A wide-ranging and up-to-date knowledge of the local movies, TV shows, music, literature, social media platforms, cultural sensitivities and nuances 
  • Experience with some or all of the following: Apple products and MS Office 
  • Degree not required but preferred in: Art, Design, Media, Production, Literature, Film, etc. 
  • Knowledge of advanced spreadsheet and XML a plus 
  • This position may require work outside of normal business hours, on weekends and holidays.