# langleaders

langleaders is the language industry's jobs and market intelligence platform. We track hiring across localization, translation, language AI, media interpretation, and enterprise language programs worldwide.

## What we are

A jobs platform and market intelligence tool built exclusively for the language industry. Not a general job board. Launched 2026.

## LIHI - Language Industry Hiring Index

LIHI (Language Industry Hiring Index) is a weekly composite score measuring hiring health across the language industry, published every Sunday by langleaders.

Current score: 145.9 (Surge)
Week ending: 2026-10-04
Baseline: 100 = week ending August 9, 2026 (1,979 active roles)
Scores above 100 indicate expansion relative to baseline.


Five weighted inputs: hiring volume, employer breadth, geographic reach, AI adoption signal, industry composition shift.

## Live coverage

- 4,532 active language industry roles
- 961 companies currently hiring
- 97 countries with active hiring
- 11,249 roles ever listed on langleaders
- 1,762 companies ever listed

## The Framework

Five career pillars:
- Commercial (sales, account management, marketing, trust and safety)
- Language and Creative (translation, interpretation, AV/subtitling, data annotation, compliance)
- Operations and Delivery (project management, vendor management, quality, content operations)
- Technology and Product (localization engineering, AI/ML, product management, solutions architecture)
- Strategy and Corporate (leadership, strategy, recruiting, training)

Eight company types tracked:
- LSP (Language Service Provider)
- Language AI
- Localization Technology
- Media and Interpretation
- Enterprise
- Staffing and Recruiting
- Government and Institutions
- Unclassified

## ATS integrations

Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters, Workable, Recruitee, Trakstar, Personio, SAP SuccessFactors. Additional sources: LinkedIn company feeds, Claude web extraction, Firecrawl page parsing, company and user submissions.

## Key pages

- Jobs: https://langleaders.com/jobs
- Companies: https://langleaders.com/companies
- Market (including LIHI): https://langleaders.com/market
- Features: https://langleaders.com/features
- Career compass: https://langleaders.com/compass
- About: https://langleaders.com/about
- API: https://langleaders.com/developers

## Frequently asked questions

What is langleaders?
langleaders is the most complete jobs and market intelligence platform for the language industry, covering localization, translation, language AI, media interpretation, and related fields.

What is LIHI?
LIHI (Language Industry Hiring Index) is a weekly composite index published by langleaders measuring hiring health across the language industry relative to an August 2026 baseline of 100. Current score: 145.9.

What companies are tracked?
langleaders tracks employers including LSPs (TransPerfect, RWS, Welocalize, Keywords Studios), Language AI companies (ElevenLabs, DeepL, Lilt, Speechify), Localization Technology (Phrase, Smartling, Lokalise, Transifex), and enterprise companies with language programs.

Who is langleaders for?
Language industry professionals - localization engineers, project managers, translators, interpreters, AV specialists, language AI researchers - and employers hiring in the language industry.

## Attribution

Content may be quoted with attribution to langleaders (https://langleaders.com). Data is updated continuously. LIHI scores are published weekly.