Katja Zuske
Experienced Localization Industry Leader. Bridge builder. Global citizen.
- Role
- Senior Manager Language Ai & Quality at eBay
- Location
- San Jose, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Katja Zuske
Industry leader with 25+ years of experience in various areas of Localization (L10N). Proven track record of program and people management, including hiring, developing, managing, and mentoring talent. Highly successful in bringing people to the table and finding solutions to complex problems. Skilled at introducing localization concepts and best practices to new clients as well as evaluating and analyzing existing L10N processes and identifying pathways to optimization and improvement. Considerable experience in leading cross-functional teams and working with various roles such as linguists, language providers, program and product managers, localization engineers, developers, testing teams, content designers, desktop publishers, etc. Driver for change.
Experience
Senior Manager Language Ai & Quality
Aug 2025 — Present · San Jose, CA, US
As Manager of Language AI & Quality, I am leading my globally distributed team through a pivotal transition from NMT-supported localization to LLM-augmented workflows. I champion AI upskilling - especially effective prompting - and foster a culture of continuously rethinking processes to unlock AI-driven efficiencies. I play a key role in strategic leadership, helping to shape an AI-enabled future with strong quality guardrails and Responsible AI practices to ensure outcomes meet our standards and customer needs.
Education
Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
MA, Technical translation
1989 — 1996
Skills
- Localization
- Voice Over
- Photography
- Quality Assurance
- Globalization
- Fine Art Photography
- Review
- Music
- Technical Documentation
- Technical Translation
- Software Documentation
- Editing
- Photoshop
- Digital Photography
- Team Leadership
- Foreign Languages
- Bug Tracking
- Portrait Photography
- Translation
- Photo Shoot Production
- Photography Instructions
- Instructions
- L10n
- Manuals
- Localization Testing
- Linguistic Testing
- Localization Project Management
- Proofreading
- Trados
- Training
- Testing
- Writing
- Progression Testing
- Third-Party Review
- Wildlife Photography
- Headshots
- Terminology
- Photo Shoots
- Multilingual
- Teaching Photography
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