About

The language industry has more opportunity than most people see.

langleaders maps it. Jobs, market intelligence, and the framework to make sense of both, built specifically for the language industry.

Translation, localization, internationalization, globalization, language experience. Different words for overlapping worlds, all underserved by platforms built for everyone else.

Generic job boards do not know the difference between a Localization Engineer at a language company and one mapping GPS coordinates for a self-driving car. We do. The language industry deserves its own jobs platform.

How it works

Fifteen ways in. One standard out.

Discover

15 data paths in

  • LinkedIn company feeds
  • Claude web extraction
  • Firecrawl page parsing
  • Company submissions
  • User-reported roles
Classify

Structured automatically

Career pillars

  • Commercial
  • Operations & Delivery
  • Language & Creative
  • Technology & Product
  • Strategy & Corporate

Company types

  • Language AI
  • Localization Technology
  • Language Service Providers
  • Media & Interpretation
  • Enterprise
  • Staffing & Recruiting
  • Unclassified

Machine-assisted. Human-reviewed.

Publish

Live on langleaders

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Aggregated weekly into LIHI — the Language Industry Hiring Index.

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The Framework

How we organize the industry

Every job on langleaders is mapped to five career pillars and five company types. The same framework powers the job board, the matches, the company profiles, and LIHI — the Language Industry Hiring Index.

Career pillars

Company types

Explore the full framework
Who it's for

Built for language industry professionals and employers

For professionals

Find your role in the language industry.

  • Roles across LSPs, Language AI, enterprise, media, and localization technology
  • Matched to your career path, location, and seniority
  • Track the tools and skills companies are hiring for right now
  • Save jobs and get notified when new matches appear
  • Follow LIHI — the Language Industry Hiring Index — to understand your market
Find your role
For companies

Reach language industry professionals directly.

  • Claim your company profile and get the Claimed Employer badge
  • Post roles to a verified language industry audience
  • Be featured in the Company Directory and job cards
  • Track your hiring presence alongside competitors
  • Your jobs feed LIHI — the Language Industry Hiring Index
Claim your profile
Why it exists

Language is infrastructure.

Every product that crosses a border, every platform that serves more than one market, every piece of communication that reaches a global audience depends on the people who do this work. The industry that makes it possible is understaffed, underfunded, and poorly understood by the broader technology world.

langleaders exists to change that, starting with the job market. Better data means better decisions. Better decisions mean stronger teams. Stronger teams mean better outcomes for the organizations that depend on language to reach the world. The data is there. Use it.

Support the project

langleaders is self-funded and independent.

Free to use, no paywalls, no data sold. Every dollar that comes in goes straight back into running the crawlers, the classifiers, and the index.

Buy me a coffee

Support the platform that tracks the language industry's hiring health, one coffee at a time.

Donate to help with costs ❤

Feature your company

Put your brand in front of language industry professionals. Every dollar funds the crawlers, classifiers, and index that keep langleaders independent and the job board free for everyone.

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