Swiss French Translator and Localization Expert (Freelance)

We're looking for a Swiss French Market Editor to own and elevate all written content for our French-speaking Switzerland market.

This isn't a translation role, but rather an editor role. We're looking for someone to help us ensure that everything we publish, from landing pages to emails feels written for your market, resonates locally, and supports sustainable international growth. You'll work closely with Brand, CRM, Performance Marketing, Ecommerce, and Product Marketing, acting as the local voice and market expert who helps us understand what truly resonates and what doesn't.

The role reports into the Senior Brand Manager and operates with a high degree of autonomy. If you're a strong proofreader in the D2C marketing space, and understand how language, culture, and customer journeys impact performance, and you're motivated to help a fast-growing subscription brand scale successfully across European markets, then we'd love to talk with you.

What you'll do

Own local market content

• Adapt tone, structure, and messaging to local expectations, not literal translations into high-quality, market-native Swiss French
• Provide voiceovers for ads
• Ensure brand consistency while maximizing local relevance

Act as market expert

• Provide feedback on customer needs, objections, and cultural nuances
• Flag messaging, offers, or UX elements that don't translate well locally
• Share market input on influencer and creator content to ensure cultural relevance and brand alignment

Optimize for performance

• Improve conversion-focused content on landing pages and key funnels
• Support SEO localization: search intent, phrasing, and keyword nuance
• Collaborate with CRM to optimize email and lifecycle messaging for engagement

Enable scalable expansion

• Help build repeatable localization workflows
• Document learnings and market insights for future rollouts
• Collaborate with central content team to improve AI + human localization processes

Who you are

A market-native editor

• Native-level Swiss French, can write french with excellent grammar, clarity, and nuance. This role is only for those who are from French-speaking Switzerland.
• Fluent in English as a working language
• Able to turn English-first content into natural, market-native copy, not literal translations
• Strong instinct for tone, persuasion, customer and user motivations.

Performance- and audience-aware

• Understands how local language choices impact conversion, engagement, and trust
• Familiar with SEO localisation, including search intent and phrasing differences
• Able to spot underperforming messaging and proactively suggest improvements

Comfortable with localisation at scale

• Experienced in working with AI-assisted or translation-first setups
• Strong in structuring information and designing workflows.
• Able to balance speed and quality in a fast-moving environment

Experienced and independent

• 4+ years in editorial, localisation, copywriting, or content roles
• Ideally in DTC, food, wellness, subscription, ecommerce, or consumer tech
• Comfortable making editorial decisions independently

Working style

• Independent and proactive
• Fast, but high quality
• Organized and systematic
• Comfortable collaborating across CRM, Brand, Product
• Energized by helping consumers build healthier habits with less effort

Please be sure to include your portfolio in your application.