Bachelor Degree
- Italian Native level fluency
- English Business level fluency
- Experience with language data handling or data markup
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office/Excel
Job summary
Amazon is seeking an Italian Language Data Linguist to join our Alexa data team.
This role focuses on speech and language data, primarily in the areas of grammar writing, text annotation, and general language expansion deliverables.
**The Italian Language Data Linguist must be capable of**:
- Building a thorough understanding of labeling conventions and provide support to global sites
- Localizing established guidelines from English into Italian
- Improving deployed grammars by expanding coverage, accuracy, and eliminating bugs
- Delivering high quality data output under aggressive deadlines
- Working autonomously with minimum direction
- Handling unique data analysis requests from a range of data customers
- Contributing to process improvements to reduce handling time and improve data output
- Diving deep into issues and implement solutions independently
- Providing quality expertise to other team members and coaching improvements
In addition, the Italian Language Data Linguist will need to quickly understand changes in response to customers' requests and change workflows accordingly.
The Italian Language Data Linguist must have a passion for data, efficiency, and accuracy as well as:
- Show proactive efforts in addressing issues and problems
- Excellent communication, excellent organizational skills and very detail-oriented
- Comfortable working in highly collaborative, dynamic work environment
- Willingness to support several projects at one time, and to accept re-prioritization as necessary
- Ability to keep up with changing project conventions and priorities
- BA/BS degree in Linguistics or equivalent practical experience in translation or localization
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills
- Independent, proactive, and self-motivated with record in timely delivery of requests
- Ability to quickly grasp technical concepts and learn in-house user-interface tools
- Team player with exceptional interpersonal and solution-oriented attitude
- Excellent organizational, written and verbal communication skills