Financial Translator, Spanish

Dow Jones Newswires is seeking two AI-literate translators fluent in Spanish and English to join its growing team of linguists. The role focuses on ensuring accuracy and monitoring the quality of our autotranslation model for financial, business, and economic news from English to Latin American Spanish.

About the role

This full-time contract position is based in New York City with a hybrid work schedule. The successful candidate will assess and improve autotranslated content, demonstrate strong prompt engineering skills, and build glossaries to enhance translation consistency and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Spot-check autotranslated output on a daily basis
• Document and track translation quality metrics to monitor trends, identify improvement areas, and support continuous enhancement
• Implement the correction policy for Spanish products
• Build and maintain glossaries
• Design, test, and iteratively refine prompts to enhance the quality, accuracy, and style of autotranslated financial news
• Regularly communicate and share ideas with global colleagues to improve autotranslation quality and work efficiency
• Interact with stakeholders (Product, Editorial, customers, and partners)
• Assist with translating pre-defined templates for automated content and other translation-related tasks as required

Requirements

• Native level of Spanish (C2)
• Strong understanding of Latin American Spanish culture to ensure appropriateness and cultural compliance
• Demonstrable experience in LQA (Linguistic Quality Assurance) and Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE)
• Strong experience using CAT tools, particularly for building and implementing glossaries
• Excellent knowledge of financial and economic news and terminology in both English and Spanish
• Experience with machine translation and GenAI
• Preferably some experience in a financial-focused newsroom

Pay

Base pay range: $70,000 – $80,000. This range reflects our good faith estimate and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on market benchmarks and individual contributions.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.