Localization Manager Jobs in San Jose, CA (NOW HIRING)

Verkada is looking for an experienced Localization Manager to support our end-to-end localization program. You'll be the connective tissue between our translation vendors, product, marketing, and regional teams, ensuring every piece of content, from UI strings to landing pages to sales collateral, is linguistically accurate, culturally relevant, and launched on time. This is a highly cross-functional role for someone who is an equal parts process-builder, quality champion, and hands-on project manager.

• Vendor management: Own relationships with translation and localization vendors, manage SOWs, SLAs, and day-to-day workflow to ensure high-quality, on-time delivery.
• Quality assurance: Maintain and continuously check localization quality across product, web, and marketing content; run linguistic QA processes, manage style guides and glossaries, and resolve translation issues quickly.
• New language launches: Lead the end-to-end process for launching new languages/locales, from scoping and resourcing through translation, QA, and go-live, coordinating closely with Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
• GTM localization: Partner with regional marketing and sales teams to localize go-to-market materials (sales decks, one-pagers, case studies, campaigns, etc.) for international markets, ensuring messaging lands with local audiences.
• Website localization: Customize and manage localized landing pages per language/region, working with web and design teams to adapt layout, imagery, and content as needed (not just word-for-word translation).
• Process improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve localization workflows and tooling (e.g., translation management systems, automation, string handoff processes) to increase speed, quality, and scalability as Verkada expands into new markets.
• Budget and reporting: Track localization spend, volume, and turnaround-time metrics.
• Market research: Stay close to regional nuances, competitive localization practices, and market-specific requirements to proactively flag localization needs.

• 4+ years of experience in localization management, translation project management, or a related global content/marketing role.
• Proven experience managing translation/localization vendors and multi-language programs at scale.
• Hands-on experience with Translation Management Systems (e.g., Smartling, Lokalise, Phrase, Crowdin) and localization workflows for both product (software strings) and marketing content.
• Strong project management skills, able to manage multiple concurrent language releases and campaigns with competing deadlines.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills; comfortable partnering with Product, Engineering, Design, Marketing, and Sales.
• Strong understanding of internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) best practices
• A quality-first mindset with sharp attention to linguistic and cultural detail.
• A continuous-improvement mentality, always looking for ways to make the localization process faster, cheaper, and higher quality.
• Experience with AI-assisted translation and quality workflows (e.g., LLM/MT post-editing, automated QA checks, AI-powered TMS features).
• Fluency in English required, plus proficiency in another language, preferably Korean or Japanese.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Linguistics, International Studies, Marketing, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in B2B SaaS, hardware/IoT, or security industries is a plus.

Verkada is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Professional development stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily
• Commuter benefits

• You must be independently authorized to work in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role, at this time.