Senior Technical Program Manager - Bilingual Spanish (12 month contract)

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward. We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

Remitly is a uniquely global company, serving millions of customers who speak many different languages, regardless of the country they live in. The Localization and Internationalization team works to ensure that Remitly's products are tailored for all customers both culturally and linguistically across the entire customer journey. We're looking for a seasoned expert to drive our efforts to expand and scale localization across product and marketing, and raise the quality of customer experience in all current and future languages. As a Senior Program Manager, Localization, you'll partner closely with product, engineering, design, legal, and CS teams to implement scalable globalization solutions and workflows. This is a highly cross-functional, impactful role with the opportunity to shape the strategy for a fast-growing program.

You Will:

• Own and continuously improve the Spanish language experience across product and marketing, identifying hyper-localization opportunities in alignment with business priorities to drive conversion and engagement
• Build and scale a robust localization quality program, with a strong emphasis on multilingual product usability testing
• Investigate and resolve customer friction points by acting on customer insights and data-driven analysis
• Manage localization workflows, testing, and translation quality, including AI-powered solutions
• Work closely with engineering and design for product localization
• Drive tools strategy, workflow infrastructure, and automation to support scalable localization pipelines
• Manage budget and vendor/tooling relationships
• Develop internal resources to promote localization awareness and education across the company

You Have:

• Native-level fluency in Spanish (Latin America)
• 6+ years of experience in localization program management, including tech stack management
• 3+ years of experience working directly on client-side product and marketing localization
• Proven track record of launching new products and features internationally
• High proficiency with translation management systems, integrations, testing, and overall localization and content tech stack
• Working knowledge of internationalization requirements and frameworks, including prior success driving solutions for localizability issues
• Exceptional stakeholder relationship skills while managing a portfolio of end-to-end concurrent programs
• Ability to work with significant ambiguity, while making difficult tradeoffs between short-term outcomes and long-term impact
• Nice to have: Solid understanding of one or more of these languages: French, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, German, or Vietnamese

Compensation Details. The starting pay range for this position is typically $80- $100 an hour. Your recruiter can share more information.

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

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