Welo Global
Brazilian Portuguese Patent Language Lead
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Park IP
Park IP, a Welo Global brand, is a global IP solutions partner built for modern intellectual property work. The company enables legal teams to protect intellectual assets with accuracy, clarity, and confidence across jurisdictions. Trusted by Am Law 200 firms and Fortune 500 corporate legal departments, Park IP combines deep IP expertise with AI-powered workflows that reduce risk, improve predictability, and deliver greater visibility and control across the IP lifecycle, from prosecution to litigation and compliance. Its Legal Studio platform strengthens portfolio management through jurisdiction-specific coordination and real-time oversight, while experienced IP professionals remain accountable for quality and judgment. Operating under ISO-aligned quality and security standards, Park IP advances a disciplined and transparent approach to managing intellectual property worldwide. parkip.com
Main Purpose of Job
The Brazilian Portuguese Patent Language Lead is a critical position that requires a strong background in translation, localization, and copy-editing tasks with a focus on patent/legal documents. This professional is responsible for translating, copy editing, or reviewing complex patent/legal materials from English into Brazilian Portuguese, ensuring the highest quality and accuracy of the deliverables to client. This role works closely with Quality, Program Squads, Talent, vendors, and other stakeholders to provide precise language support for patent-related matters.
This professional ensures that the expected level of translation quality is maintained, and the product delivered to the client should always meet its intended purpose, while closely monitoring that translation expenses remain within budget.
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The Brazilian Portuguese Patent Language Lead understands legal requirements and engages the production team in the fulfillment of these requirements, crafting client solutions based on the Welo Global Four Pillars of Customer Service, Quality, Innovation, and Global Teamwork.
Main Responsibilities
- Performing copy-edit tasks on assigned projects or accounts
- Performing on-demand translation tasks
- Performing lead linguist role on assigned accounts
- Taking ownership of deliveries that were translated internally or by external partners for one or more accounts into their target language
- Preparing, managing, and maintaining the language materials (including glossaries, Style Guides, work instruction) up to the quality standards and up to date as required by the account or project
- Managing project-related queries
- Ensuring good interaction among team members and resolving questions on terminology and language matters
- Coordinating with freelancers, agencies, and internal linguists on assigned projects or accounts
- Testing and qualifying new freelancers and vendors as required
- Developing and training of internal linguists/new and existing freelancers according to the accounts’ and Welocalize’s needs
- Interacting with clients on linguistic matters as required
- Participating in the development of new and improved working processes. Propose process improvements.
- Meet or exceed the KPIs in terms of productivity, on-time delivery, quality
- Achieving the goals set by the team manager
Requirements
Education Level
- University degree in Translation/Applied Languages/Linguistic Studies or equivalent combination of education and experience (University degree in other fields plus 2 years of full-time experience in translation; OR 5 years of full-time professional experience in translating)
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Experience
- Native-Level in Brazilian Portuguese and fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Patent translation experience and patent knowledge are critical for success in this role (e.g. types of patent documents: computer science, mechanics, biology, electricity, pharmacy, chemistry)
- 8+ years of relevant experience in translation/localization/editing or content writing
- 5+ years of review experience
- Thorough understanding of the localization process
- Excellent knowledge of terminology used in various subject matters
- Subject-matter expert within the company for assigned content specialties, service lines, and processes
- Excellent user experience of standard CAT tools, e.g. XTM, SDL Studio, and issue tracking and query management tools, e.g. JIRA
- Ability to learn new localization tools and applications quickly
- Excellent user experience of standard software, such as Windows and Office applications
- Ability to give clear, concise, and constructive feedback
- Ability to coordinate internal and external translators
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability and willingness to train/teach others and pass on knowledge.
- Ability to work with tight deadlines
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, linguists
- Ability, willingness, and experience in communicating with customers at various levels
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists
- Ability to work in a virtual team
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