Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Posted on 5/9/2026

Deadline 5/31/26
Welocalize

Welocalize

5,001-10,000 employees

AI-powered content localization platform and services

No salary listed

London, UK + 5 more

More locations: Ireland | Madrid, Spain | United Kingdom | Dublin, Ireland | Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain

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Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Agile
Machine Learning
JIRA
Confluence
Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience in software product management
  • Familiarity with AI and ML technologies and localization platforms, including Translation Management System, Computer-Assisted Translation tools, Language Quality Assurance, Machine Translation, and integrations.
  • Background in Life Sciences is a plus.
  • Executive Interaction: Demonstrated ability to work with senior executives, stakeholders, and users to define and manage scope, strategy, and requirements.
  • Quantitative Skills: Strong ability to seek out, understand, and dive into data, research, and others' thoughts to support data-driven decision-making.
  • Communication Skills: A well-rounded communicator, collaborator, and presenter who loves to share findings and insights.
  • Technical Proficiency: Strong practical knowledge of MS Office, Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence).
  • Methodology Understanding: Understanding of Lean and Agile methodologies.
  • Attention to Detail: Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines, and reporting.
  • Problem-Solving: Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
  • Autonomy & Teamwork: Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
  • Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning).
  • Presentation Skills: Ability to build clear and concise presentations and communicate effectively at every level of the organization.
  • Product Execution: Demonstrated specialization, execution, and delivery of software products.
  • Project Management Skills: Demonstrated project management skills, including effective planning, organizing, and administration of multi-functional work responsibilities.
  • Facilitation Skills: Demonstrated ability to facilitate cross-functional planning sessions (e.g., Scrum and Squad in Agile).
  • Team Inspiration: Demonstrated ability to effectively partner across, collaborate with, and inspire teams and individuals, including remote employees.
  • Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate and resolve complex and sensitive issues with diplomacy and persuasiveness.
Responsibilities
  • Strategic Development: Play a central role in building capabilities that will empower multiple business-critical software projects.
  • Roadmap Leadership: Build insights into Welocalize use cases, strategize where software solutions can be applied to drive business impact and use these insights to build and champion the product roadmap.
  • Cross-functional collaboration: Closely partner with outstanding talent across engineering teams and drive tight integration with other systems to build effective software solutions.
  • Objective Setting: Define clear OKRs to ensure progress towards our goal of driving software adoption and effectiveness.
  • Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with internal operational stakeholders, external clients, and our engineering team to ensure product success.
  • Requirement Analysis & Solution Design: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, define clear objectives, and develop technical plans. Work with stakeholders to identify opportunities where software can provide valuable insights and solutions.
  • Performance Assessment: Develop metrics that reflect the needs of the business for their stakeholder cases, partner in the analysis of experiment results, interpret findings, and provide actionable recommendations.
  • Industry Awareness: Stay updated with the latest advancements in software development, technologies, and methodologies.
  • Product Development Leadership: Lead product development and launches by working with multiple stakeholders to define product requirements, prioritize features, and manage timelines.
  • Performance Monitoring: Monitor product performance and user feedback to ensure product success.
  • Stakeholder Engagement Plan: Develop and execute a formal plan to regularly engage with stakeholders to ensure all product needs are captured.
  • Requirement Documentation: Ensure that requirements slated for development are internally consistent, well-described, and granular enough to be implemented by developers.
  • Team Collaboration: Collaborate with the development team by involving them in the development of the product vision, sharing credit for success, thinking through nuances before presenting requirements, and creating schedules through consensus.
  • Culture Contribution: Contribute to a culture of excellence, open communication, courage, and respect.

Welocalize helps global brands reach international audiences by localizing content for different languages and cultures. Its product, OPAL, is an AI-enabled service platform that streamlines translation, review, and approval using modular AI blocks, connectors to enterprise systems, and workflow apps. This integrated approach combines automation with human review to speed delivery, reduce costs, and improve accuracy. The company aims to help clients expand globally, boost engagement with international customers, and grow revenue through scalable localization.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

Growth Equity (Venture Capital)

Total Funding

$34M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1997

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Clinical trials market demands linguistic validation, creating recurring high-margin service opportunities.
  • Paul Danter's appointment signals strategic focus on premium-priced technology and entertainment verticals.
  • PATHFINDER e-learning platform builds brand authority in rapidly growing AI-enabled language services sector.

What critics are saying

  • EU AI Act enforcement fines up to €35M or 7% global turnover for non-transparent OPAL NMT disclosures.[1][3]
  • OpenAI enterprise localization API enables in-house translation at 70% lower cost for top clients.[1]
  • RWS Smartling MT integration offers half OPAL implementation time, capturing workflow automation clients.[1]

What makes Welocalize unique

  • AILQA Beta and TranslationRater™ embed quality assurance directly into enterprise AI workflows.
  • Next Level Globalization acquisition strengthens life sciences division with specialized medical devices expertise.
  • Ranked among world's largest LSPs by CSA Research, Nimdzi, and Slator with 400+ employees.

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Benefits

Accident Insurance

Critical Illness Insurance

Hospital Indemnity Insurance

Telemedicine Benefit

Paid Sick Time

Paid Holidays

Employee Assistance Program

Mileage Reimbursement

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

Voluntary Life Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

8%
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