Julie-Anne Larochelle
Localization Program Manager @Meta
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WORK HISTORY
Localization Program Manager @Meta
San Francisco, CA, US
Key responsibilities/achievements-[April 2019 - August 2020] Supported the Facebook app Entertainment pillars, with a focus on Watch and Gaming products. Implemented a localization and LQA program for Facebook Watch Originals and corporate videos (localized subtitles, on-screen text and voice-over)-[April 2020 – October 2020] Took on leading our i18n (internationalization) team\'s COVID-19 response. This included: managing the localization and testing of the Facebook COVID-19 Information Center and other relevant social impact content, helping other localization program managers localize COVID-related features launching in their product spaces, and monitoring overall translation vendor capacity/prioritization on a daily basis-[October 2020 – now] Supporting the Instagram product, with a focus on localizing Commerce/Shopping, Business, Creators, IGTV/Video, Well-Being user experiences (app and marketing content/assets)-[January 2021 - now]Leading a localization team task force dedicated to driving improvements in internal stakeholder i18n education. Efforts include revamping internal support (Help) content, its IA and design, while migrating it to a different platform, and increasing its findability/use via Search and browse optimizations-[August 2022 - now]Managing the localization project coordination program, and relevant team of contractors coordinating all of Meta\'s outsourced localization work (except for WhatsApp).
EDUCATION
Laval University
Master’s Degree, Terminology and Translation
Séminaire St-François
High school diploma
Laval University
Bachelor’s Degree, Teaching English as a Second Language
St-Lawrence College (Champlain Regional College)
College Diploma (Cegep), Science
SKILLS
ABOUT JULIE-ANNE LAROCHELLE
Expertise in: Managing localization projects and budgets, defining globalization and localization strategies, andbuilding/managing localization programs across all content types and areas of business. Educating and working with multiple cross-functional/xfn partners towards i18n compliance and optimization. Identifying, flagging and driving solutions for operational and content quality gaps/issues and otherinefficiencies. Developing internal and external user and stakeholder/partner support, marketing and communicationscontent, website and Help center/knowledge management models (SEO, IA.), strategy, templates, styleguides, term bases, and training. Managing authoring and localization content systems/tools, user licenses, and budgets. Includes advocating forand integrating new systems/tools, and orchestrating user training and content migrations. Building, training/coaching, and managing teams of FTEs and/or contractors, with a focus on ongoingalignment in terms of role expectations; mentoring peers. Crafting RFPs and assessment exercises for vendor selection. Onboarding, training and tracking vendorperformance.
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