[Contract] Language Training Specialist - Japanese

Who We Are

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.

About The Role

We’re looking for an experienced Localization Project Manager — Japan Training Quality to support localization for Customer Education, helping ensure Notion training content feels accurate, clear, culturally relevant, and ready to use for learners across the globe.

You’ll work at the intersection of localization quality, training implementation, and program management , collaborating with Localization, Partner Enablement, Customer Education, vendors, and language specialists. You’ll help turn translation feedback, learner experience issues, and regional quality needs into practical improvements across training content, quizzes, LMS setup, and repeatable localization workflows.

The ideal candidate combines native-level Japanese language expertise with a deep understanding of what effective education looks like in the Japanese market.

What You'll Achieve

Own and apply Japanese localization QA standards across training content, including checking for accuracy, clarity, tone, terminology, and cultural nuance

Support development of glossaries, style guides, QA checklists, review processes, and localization assets

Become a go-to partner for translation questions related to Notion-specific concepts, product terminology, and training context

Support QA of technical implementation in eLearning authoring tools and LMS environments (course files, quizzes, answer selections)

Coordinate across Customer Education, Partner Enablement, Localization, and vendors to align on priorities, timelines, translation progress, and quality expectations

Identify workflow risks and recommend improvements that improve translation quality and reduce time-to-launch

Document repeatable processes that make training and help center localization easier to manage over time

Skills You'll Need to Bring

Strong understanding of localization workflows, including vendor collaboration, review cycles, glossaries, style guides, QA rubrics, and linguistic QA

Experience with Japanese localization QA, ideally for SaaS, technical training, customer education, or partner enablement content

Ability to review translated content for quality, clarity, terminology accuracy, cultural nuance, and learner comprehension

Familiarity with eLearning or LMS tools; experience with platforms like Skilljar or Parta authoring tools is a plus

Comfort working with technical or product-specific terminology that may not translate directly

Strong attention to detail, especially in learner-facing content, quizzes, course setup, formatting, and implementation QA

Strong project management skills and ability to bring structure into ambiguous areas

Why this role matters