Manager, Editorial Services - Spanish

About the role

The Manager, Editorial Services (Spanish) supports the development and delivery of all official Games publications and editorial content for the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This role combines strong copywriting, editorial, and visual communication skills to ensure that all materials shared with athletes, spectators, media, and other stakeholders are accurate, clear, consistent, and aligned with the LA28 brand.

Responsibilities

• Copywriting & Content Development
• Draft and edit high-quality content for stakeholder-facing materials including playbooks, venue guides, factsheets, FAQs, and signage
• Translate select publications, content, and promotional messages from English to Spanish
• Tailor content to suit different audiences, platforms, and accessibility requirements
• Editorial Support
• Proofread, fact-check, and refine content to ensure accuracy, tone consistency, and alignment with editorial guidelines
• Support the maintenance of editorial templates, style guides, and terminology databases
• Ensure that publications and content needing translation are correctly translated from one language (English) to another (Spanish)
• Translations
• Serve as LA28’s official Spanish translator for publications, editorial, and promotional content
• Work with AI language models to ensure translated works are culturally relevant
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work with multiple departments to gather content, confirm accuracy, and manage updates
• Track changes and coordinate version control across teams and publication phases
• Visual Design & Layout
• Collaborate with the design and brand teams to lay out documents and create visually compelling editorial assets
• Ensure all materials meet LA28 visual identity standards and accessibility guidelines
• Project Coordination
• Support the planning and production of print and digital publications, from concept to delivery
• Aid in timelines, file preparation, and vendor coordination for final outputs
• Imagery & Rights Management Support
• Sources and manages imagery for editorial use, ensuring appropriate rights clearance and brand alignment
• Ensures that publications and content needing translation are correctly translated from one language (English) to another (Spanish) and will make sense to LA28 audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, and / or Spanish required.
• Fluency in Spanish–both written and verbal communication—is required.
• Experience in translating publications from English to Spanish required
• Minimum 5+ years of experience in editorial, publishing, or copywriting
• Minimum 5+ years of experience editing copy in English and in Spanish
• Strong writing and editing skills, with demonstrated ability to produce written content for diverse audiences
• Proficiency with design and layout tools such as Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, or equivalent
• Experience working on multi-stakeholder or large-scale projects, ideally in events, media, or sports
• Familiarity with editorial workflows and cross-functional collaboration
• Familiarity with AI tools

Background & Expectations

Creative and detail-oriented, with a strong sense of narrative and visual communication
Highly organized and adaptable to fast-paced, evolving environments
Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
Passionate about the Olympic and Paralympic Movements and delivering

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Available to work onsite in our Downtown Los Angeles-based office.
• The majority of work will be conducted in an office setting, requiring extended periods of time using computers, phones, and other office equipment.
• The LA28 office is an open floorplan working environment; employees must be able to work efficiently in an open cubicle environment.
• Hours of work may vary, including evenings, weekends, and holidays, especially during peak event periods.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this position is $88,000.00 - $115,000. The pay scale provided is the range that LA28 reasonably expects to pay as starting base compensation for this role. All LA28 compensation remains subject to final determination based on individual candidate qualifications, experience, or other reasonable criteria consistent with LA28’s operational business needs and applicable law.