One key group in the USD 27.9bn language industry is the buyers and users who make or influence decisions about which technologies are deployed and which vendor or group of vendors gets a company’s business.
Slator’s Language Industry Buyer Tracker monitors activity among more than 700,000 localization professionals on the social network.
Our comprehensive monitoring captures the many buyers and users who do not appear in searches under the Translation and Localization category, given their company’s core business.
Stephanie Cardwell Howell
Director, Localization & Marketization at Zoom (from May 2024)
Denver, CO
Zoom has hired Stephanie Cardwell Howell as Director of Localization and Marketization. Before joining Zoom, Cardwell was with Square as Lead, Localization Content Specialist and then with Reddit as Head of Localization before that.
Päivi Tuomi
Localization Program Manager – Worldwide Field Enablement at Amazon Web Services (from Jun 2024)
Seattle
Päivi Tuomi has joined Amazon Web Services in the role of Localization Program Manager – Worldwide Field Enablement. Tuomi was Global Program Manager of the Marketing Localization Team for Google Cloud before joining AWS.
Xiaoyao Zhang
Localization Manager for Figma (from Jun 2024)
London
Xiaoyao Zhang first joined Figma just last February of 2024 then took on a new role as Localization Manager just four months later. Zhang was with ActiveCampaign before joining Figma.
司子鑫
Localization and Operations Manager at Temu (from Jun 2024)
Shanghai
司子鑫 has joined Temu as Localization and Operations Manager. Temu has been gaining renown lately thanks to their aggressive online marketing.
Cristina Morales Sánchez
Head of Localization at TechStyleOS (from Jun 2024)
Barcelona
Cristina Morales Sánchez first joined TechStyleOS in 2016 as Content Manager. Cristina Morales Sánchez is now Head of Localization at the company behind fashion brands that include Fabletics and Savage X Fenty.
Kazumi Miyata
Digital Marketing Manager, Localization at AMD (from Jun 2024)
Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
Kazumi Miyata is AMD’s new Digital Marketing Manager for Localization. Miyata was once Director for Japan Localization Services at Ambit Energy.
Tatyana Van Loo
Localization Senior Program Manager at Sony Interactive Entertainment (from Jun 2024)
San Francisco
Tatyana Van Loo is now Localization Senior Program Manager for Sony Interactive Entertainment. Van Loo has been with the company since 2021 and was with Yoh as Localization Program Manager previous to that.
Alina Aleshkevich
Localization Manager for AIBY (from May 2024)
Warsaw
Alina Aleshkevich has joined AIBY as Localization Manager. AIBY is an app-developer out of Florida.
Ilona Zaharkina Pedersen
Senior Localization Manager at Monta (from Apr 2024)
Copenhagen
Ilona Zaharkina Pedersen is now Senior Localization Manager at Danish electric vehicle tech company, Monta. We first featured Pedersen when Pedersen joined Monta in 2022 as Localization Manager. Pedersen spent time in the sell-side and was working for Iyuno as a PM before joining Monta.
Kate Kenyon
Head of Content Design, Ops & Localization at JPMorganChase (from Jun 2024)
London
Kate Kenyon has joined JPMorganChase as Head of Content Design, Ops and Localization. Kenyon was with OVO as Head of Content Operations before joining her new company.
Darron Johnson
Director, Globalization at Square (from Jun 2024)
Boston
Darron Johnson is now Director for Globalization at Square after joining the company in 2022 as Localization Program Manager. Johnson was previously with Skillshare as Director of Technical Product Manager for Localization.