About the Job
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 to...
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 pract...
Key Responsibilities
The ideal candidate combines native-level Japanese language expertise with a deep understanding of what effective education looks like in the Japanese market.
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
Required Skills & Abilities
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
We want all of our learners should feel like Notion training content was made for them — not simply translated for them. High-quality localization has a direct impact on learner trust, comprehension, launch readiness, and regional enablement outcomes.
This role will help Customer Education and Partner Enablement move faster while raising the quality bar: reducing rework, catching issues before launch, improving vendor feedback loops, and creating a clearer, more repeatable operating model for training localization
This is a 6-month, part-time role with option to extend. Preferred location is Tokyo, but we're open to remote applicants with strong Japanese market expertise and timezone overlap with Japan and Notion's International Experience team.
Availability: 20 hours/week
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You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we'll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.
