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Senior Localization Team Lead

Hostinger

About Hostinger

  • Join the team building an AI-first company.
  • Hostinger serves more than 5.5 million clients across 150 countries, but we're still excited about what we're creating next.
  • AI is changing how we build products, support customers, work together, and solve problems. It helps us move faster, spend less time on repetitive work, and focus on bigger ideas.
  • If you want your work to influence both what we build and how we build it, we'd like to meet you.
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  • 10 company principles

Your role at Hostinger

Hostinger reaches 5,5 million+ clients across 150 countries. Localization isn’t a translation pipeline anymore, but a growth lever. At this scale, every market requires precision, cultural depth and a team that can execute at speed - we need someone to own it.

Senior Localization Team Lead, you’ll coach a big team of in-house specialists, manage an on-demand freelancer network and help shape how Hostinger communicates in every market it enters. That means being as comfortable navigating never-ending changes as you are running a performance conversation grounded in quality data and growth perspectives.

This is a people-first, strategy-forward role: high ownership, high autonomy, real impact on how millions of people experience Hostinger.

Curious to learn more? Meet your future Team Lead:

Georgiana Madalina Comorasu, Head of Localization

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  • We’re always looking for exceptional talent to raise the bar, with compensation reflecting your experience and the impact and value you bring.
  • Get ready to take your personal and professional growth to new heights! Join Hostinger today and be part of our journey 🚀
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Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach and develop a team of Localization Specialists, creating an environment of psychological safety, ownership and continuous growth through regular feedback, performance conversations and data-driven quality improvements.
  • Manage and scale our external freelancer network, owning the full lifecycle from sourcing and onboarding to quality standards, communication and offboarding.
  • In synergy with our Lead Project Manager, translate business goals into localization execution plans, bringing market insights into planning and acting as the bridge between Localization Specialists and Localization Project Managers.
  • Validate strategic priorities against real team capacity and market realities, ensuring plans are both ambitious and operationally feasible.
  • Take ownership of complex localization challenges without established playbooks, including new market launches, AI-human review models and other strategic initiatives.
  • Identify recurring quality and delivery issues, uncover root causes and implement sustainable process improvements together with cross-functional partners.
  • Investigate performance anomalies, drive resolutions end-to-end and protect the team from unnecessary operational noise.
  • Evaluate, pilot and implement AI and localization technologies, partnering with language owners to build feedback loops that improve quality, efficiency and localization outcomes across all markets.
  • 5+ years in localization, with at least 3 in a leadership role managing in-house linguists.

Requirements

  • Hands-on background as a translator, editor or proofreader - you understand what you’re managing, not just how to manage it.
  • Demonstrated experience coordinating freelancers or external contributors across multiple markets, including onboarding and offboarding.
  • Strong analytical instincts: you read quality scores, OKR trends, and delivery data, not just volume reports.
  • Business-first minded: you connect localization work to business outcomes and never present a finding without a “so what”
  • Fluent in the language of cross-functional stakeholders: Marketing, Product, Engineering.
  • Proficient with core localization tooling: CAT tools, project management systems and AI platforms (Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude).

Preferred

  • Experience coordinating freelancers or external contributors across multiple markets, including onboarding and offboarding.
  • Experience with AI search readiness: structured data, entity optimization, or AI crawler monitoring.
  • Familiarity with SurferSEO, Accuranker or localization-adjacent SEO tools.
  • Background working in or alongside high-growth, multi-locale product companies.

Benefits

  • 🚀 360° Growth:
  • and CoachHub, go to global conferences, and borrow from our physical and digital libraries. Depending on your location, you can mentor or be mentored through
  • TesoXchange. People

give each other open feedback

  • share what they know, and take on new projects as their skills grow.
  • Work where you do your best work: our offices in Vilnius, Kaunas, Jakarta, or Luxembourg, your home, or anywhere in the world. You plan your own day and own your results, and good ideas go live fast.
  • Your wellbeing comes first. You get time off to recharge, a
  • Headspace
  • subscription, and events focused on wellbeing. Depending on your location, you also get health insurance from day one, a gym membership, regular health checks, and clubs for sports, arts, and hobbies.
  • We celebrate wins together at
  • Winterfest, Town Halls, team-buildings, and workations. Meet the Client sessions connect you directly with the people you build for. Milestones outside work matter too, so we celebrate weddings, new parenthood, and graduations with you.