French Patent Language Lead

Overview

A global intellectual property solutions partner is seeking a French Patent Language Lead to support translation and interpretation of patent and legal documents. This role involves translating, post-editing, and reviewing complex patent materials from English to French and vice versa, ensuring high quality and accuracy. The position requires collaboration with quality assurance, program teams, vendors, and other stakeholders to provide precise language support for patent-related matters while managing translation budgets.

Responsibilities

• Perform English-French and French-English patent review tasks and monitor resource performance.
• Collaborate with Quality and Program Squads to plan and conduct linguistic quality assessments (LQAs) and manage arbitration processes.
• Maintain and update linguistic assets such as glossaries and translation memories.
• Monitor translation expenses to ensure adherence to budget.
• Support the Quality team in reviewing IRB forms and conducting root cause analyses (RCAs) for legal translations.
• Handle client inquiries related to French legal translation.
• Assist in onboarding new French legal suppliers.
• Respond to queries from French language resources regarding legal production.
• Lead business review meetings with French resources and address linguistic issues.
• Create and update style guides for English-French and French-English translations.
• Support assessment and recommendation of new French legal resources across content specialties.
• Conduct monthly capacity planning to ensure adequate French legal resource availability.

Requirements

• Minimum 3 years of linguistic experience in English-French and French-English patent translation.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Native-level proficiency in French and fluent in English.
• Good understanding of Machine Translation (MT).
• Knowledge of European Patent Convention law.
• Familiarity with various CAT (Computer-Assisted Translation) and QA tools.
• Awareness of the language services industry, including technology, processes, and emerging trends.
• Technical background (e.g., electricity, chemistry) is a plus.

Key Competencies

• Self-motivated with strong ownership and accountability.
• Results-driven with ability to actively drive performance.
• Proactive problem solver capable of developing clear solutions to moderately complex issues.
• Understands and values Objective & Key Results (OKRs).
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong risk assessment and mitigation skills.
• Effective team player and able to work independently.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Location

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Compensation & Benefits

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