Language Ambassador for Sports and Fitness Technology account | Indonesian

The Language Ambassador will oversee end-to-end linguistic quality and brand voice consistency across all client content types. The initial scope shall cover:

• Product & UI/UX: In-app features, user flows, and technical fitness functionality (including running, cycling, and strength training features).

• Marketing & Creative: Brand campaigns, newsletters, athlete stories, and transcreation assets requiring high creative flair.

• Support & Help Center: Knowledge base articles, user guides, and customer support content.

• Multimedia & Training: Video scripts, internal/external training assets, and interactive media.

We are looking for a role of Indonesian native Language Ambassador for a major Sports and Fitness technology brand.  The Language Ambassador program provides an additional layer of in-market expertise to support authentic, culturally relevant, and contextually appropriate localization. Ambassadors act as trusted local advisors, bringing market insight and specialist judgment to content where linguistic accuracy alone may not be sufficient. 

The ideal profile is a native Indonesian linguist who is an active runner or endurance-sports enthusiast, and who ideally already uses a popular fitness/activity-tracking application for logging workouts and connecting with the running community.

The ideal profile for this account is a linguist who is an active runner or endurance-sports enthusiast, and who ideally already uses a popular fitness/activity-tracking application for logging workouts and connecting with the running community.

Other qualifications include:

• Native Language Proficiency: The candidate must possess native language skills in the Indonesian language.

• Linguistic Excellence: Native proficiency in the target language and professional fluency in written and spoken English. 

• Localization Experience: Proven background in translation, editing, proofreading, linguistic review, or Localization Quality Assurance. 

• Sports & Connected Fitness Literacy: Meaningful personal participation, community involvement, or professional experience in running, cycling, endurance sports, hybrid fitness (e.g., HYROX, CrossFit), or strength and conditioning. 

• Fitness Devices/Wearables Familiarity: Strong working knowledge of core features of connected fitness devices/wearables. 

• Technical & Training Terminology: Comfort with athletic training concepts and performance metrics, including:

  • Strength & Conditioning: Hypertrophy, concentric/eccentric phases, RPE, RIR, sets/reps, trap/hex bars, and resistance equipment

  • Endurance Metrics: VO2 max, Functional Threshold Power (FTP), Normalized Power (NP), Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Grade Adjusted Pace (GAP), lactate threshold, and GPS/GNSS tracking

   

• Brand Tone & Transcreation: Ability to capture inspirational, community-driven voice, identifying literal or unnatural phrasing and adapting copy effectively.

• Objective Judgment & Collaboration: Ability to apply consistent LQA principles, distinguish objective errors from stylistic preference, and provide constructive, evidence-based feedback.

• Experience with terminology management, style guide development, and linguistic arbitration.