Senior Localization Team Lead | Remote
Hostinger
| Company | Hostinger |
| Category | Uncategorised |
| Location | Warsaw |
| Remote | Remote |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 28 Jul 2026 |
| Last verified | 8 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (ashby) |
Description
Join Hostinger, and we’ll grow fast! 🚀
We’re shaping the future of online success - powered by AI and driven by people. With 900+ talented professionals and over 5 million clients in 150 countries, we help creators and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life faster and easier than ever before.
Our mission: To provide tools that help individuals and small businesses succeed online faster and easier.
Our culture: Guided by 10 company principles https://www.hostinger.com/principles.
Our formula for success: Customer obsession, innovative products, and talented teams.
Your role at Hostinger
Hostinger reaches 4 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.
As 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? Connect with your team: Georgiana Madalina Comorasu, Head of Localization https://www.linkedin.com/in/mada-comorasu/
Your day-to-day
- 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.
- 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.
Your skills and experience
- 5+ years in localization, with at least 3 in a leadership role managing in-house linguists.
- 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).
Nice-to-have skills
- Experience coordinating freelancers or external contributors across multiple markets, including onboarding and offboarding.
- Experience with AI search readiness: st