# Masaki Varenne

Masaki Varenne is a remote worker on Himalayas, Japanese Language Lead Linguist at Beyont, based in France.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@masakivarenne

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Japanese localization lead at Amazon Prime and LILT, supporting approximately 150 marketing campaigns and reviewing Claude and enterprise software content.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | France |
| Authorized to work in | France |
| Salary expectations | 20k+ EUR |
| Job categories | Japanese Localization Specialist, Translator, Interpreters, Language Department Head |
| Skills | Japanese Localization, Translation, Transcreation, Linguistic QA, Localization Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing, Machine Translation Post Editing, AI Powered Localization, Large Language Model (LLM) Evaluation, Marketing Localization, Website Localization, Terminology Management, Style Guide Management, Localization Project Coordination, Email Campaign Management |

## About

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At Amazon Japan – Prime Retail Marketing, I supported Japanese localization and quality assurance for campaigns including Prime Day, Black Friday, and Monthly Deals. I supported the localization and launch of approximately 150 campaigns and A/B testing experiments, and led linguistic QA for emails, push notifications, and landing pages.

At Beyont, I coordinate Japanese localization for Pegasystems, reviewing websites, marketing emails, technical documentation, and other customer-facing content. At LILT, I perform linguistic review, QA, UAT, and language consultation for clients including Anthropic (Claude), Intel, Qualtrics, and Juniper Networks.

My work has also included Japanese MTPE for iHerb healthcare and marketing content, and auditing Japanese outputs generated by Large Language Models. Earlier, I managed Linguarama’s Japanese Language Department, overseeing instructor recruitment, training, scheduling, and curriculum development.
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## Experience

### Japanese Language Lead Linguist (current)

Beyont. Feb 2025 - Present

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Coordinate Japanese localization requests and localize websites, marketing emails, PDFs, technical documentation, and video subtitles for Pegasystems.
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Skills: Localization, Translation, Linguistic-QA, Terminology-Management, CaptionHub, Project-Coordination

### Japanese Language Lead Linguist (current)

LILT. Nov 2024 - Present

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Perform linguistic review, QA, UAT, and language consultation for AI, SaaS, software, marketing, healthcare, gaming, and DeFi content for clients including Anthropic and Intel.
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### Japanese Auditor (LLM Project)

SuperAnnotate. Mar 2026 - Jun 2026

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Audited Japanese outputs generated by Large Language Models, evaluating linguistic quality, consistency, and compliance while providing actionable feedback.
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Skills: LLM, Linguistic-Quality, Evaluation, Feedback

### Japanese Senior Reviewer (MTPE Project Lead)

Propio. Apr 2024 - Jul 2024

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Led Japanese MTPE projects for iHerb covering healthcare, packaging, website, and marketing content, ensuring regulatory compliance and brand voice.
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Skills: MTPE, Healthcare, Regulatory-Compliance, Brand-Voice, Project-Leadership

### Content Reviewer | Japanese Lead Translator | Language Consultant

Amazon Japan. Sep 2021 - Mar 2024

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Supported Japanese localization and QA for Amazon Prime Retail Marketing, delivering customer-facing content for campaigns including Prime Day and Black Friday.
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Skills: Localization, Linguistic-QA, UAT, A-B-Testing, Email-Campaign-Management, Marketing, Prime-Video, Prime-Gaming, Amazon-Music, Alexa

### Japanese Lead Translator / Interpreter

Mizuho Corporation. Jan 2020 - Sep 2021

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Translated technical documentation, product specifications, catalogs, and training materials for medical equipment, and supported market research and CRM implementation.
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Skills: Translation, Interpretation, Technical-Documentation, Medical-Equipment, Market-Research, CRM

### In-house Interpreter / Translator

Marelli Corporation. May 2018 - Dec 2019

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Translated technical and business documentation and interpreted meetings between Japanese headquarters and overseas offices.
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Skills: Translation, Interpretation, Technical-Documentation, Meeting-Minutes

### Head of Japanese Language Department

Linguarama. Jan 2001 - Dec 2013

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Managed the Japanese Language Department, overseeing instructor recruitment, training, scheduling, and curriculum development, and delivered corporate training for clients.
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Skills: Department-Management, Curriculum-Development, Corporate-Training, Customer-Relationship-Management

## Education

### Seitoku University

Associate of Arts, English Literature & Tourism

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Associate of Arts in English Literature & Tourism from Seitoku University, Japan.
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### Japanese Ministry of Education

Professional Japanese Teacher Training Course, Japanese Language Teaching

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Completed a Professional Japanese Teacher Training Course (420 hours) certified by the Japanese Ministry of Education.
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## Tech stack

- Slack
- Jira
- Google Workspace
- Quip
- CaptionHub
- Microsoft Office

To contact Masaki, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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