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Agile Localization · November 3 · 25 min

Localizing Life360 for 100 Million Users with Joaquín Muñoz

When your app tells a parent their daughter got home from school, a clumsy translation is a reason to stop trusting the product. In this episode of The Agile Localization Podcast, recorded live at LocWorld56 Vancouver, host Stefan Huyghe sits down with Joaquín Muñoz, Head of Localization at Life360, to talk about localizing a high-stakes family safety app for a global audience of more than 100 million monthly active users. Talk to an expert: https://crowdin.info/4avcwKU What You’ll Learn Why moving localization closer to product ideation gives linguists time to define new terms before AI and translators scale them How choosing languages over individual locales can cover far more users for a single budget line What retention data from the Netherlands and Scandinavia reveals about localizing for proficient English speakers Why Life360 switched to informal German and brought in-house language managers back into the workflow How to handle the Swiss case when members of the same family run the app in different languages What it takes sense to pull back from a market where cultural trust in data sharing is low Joaquín Muñoz is the Head of Localization at Life360, the family safety and location-sharing platform that recently passed 100 million monthly active users. He joined Life360 through its acquisition of Tile, where he was one of the company's original remote employees, and now leads a centralized localization function serving the entire organization. Trained in linguistics with studies in German and Spanish, Joaquín began working as a translator in 1995 and moved into localization in 2000, with past roles helping build Palm's webOS and the Nook e-reader. A self-described language nerd and polyglot, he champions design-driven localization, in-house linguistic expertise, and bringing language decisions into the earliest stages of product development. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube Podcasts, instructions on how to do this are here. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely that of the speaker and do not reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of Crowdin.Agile Localization is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so

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When your app tells a parent their daughter got home from school, a clumsy translation is a reason to stop trusting the product. In this episode of The Agile Localization Podcast, recorded live at LocWorld56 Vancouver, host Stefan Huyghe sits down with Joaquín Muñoz, Head of Localization at Life360, to talk about localizing a high-stakes family safety app for a global audience of more than 100 million monthly active users.

Talk to an expert: https://crowdin.info/4avcwKU

What You’ll Learn

  • Why moving localization closer to product ideation gives linguists time to define new terms before AI and translators scale them
  • How choosing languages over individual locales can cover far more users for a single budget line
  • What retention data from the Netherlands and Scandinavia reveals about localizing for proficient English speakers
  • Why Life360 switched to informal German and brought in-house language managers back into the workflow
  • How to handle the Swiss case when members of the same family run the app in different languages
  • What it takes sense to pull back from a market where cultural trust in data sharing is low

Joaquín Muñoz is the Head of Localization at Life360, the family safety and location-sharing platform that recently passed 100 million monthly active users. He joined Life360 through its acquisition of Tile, where he was one of the company's original remote employees, and now leads a centralized localization function serving the entire organization. Trained in linguistics with studies in German and Spanish, Joaquín began working as a translator in 1995 and moved into localization in 2000, with past roles helping build Palm's webOS and the Nook e-reader. A self-described language nerd and polyglot, he champions design-driven localization, in-house linguistic expertise, and bringing language decisions into the earliest stages of product development.

If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe, rate and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube Podcasts, instructions on how to do this are here.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this podcast are solely that of the speaker and do not reflect the views, opinions, policies, or position of Crowdin.Agile Localization is handcrafted by our friends over at: fame.so 
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