Georg Soeren Eberhardt

Localization Director at Translation Commons

Lead AI-assisted language workflows, balancing automation and human review. Define quality frameworks and content logic rules to ensure consistent, trustworthy outputs. Translate ambiguous requirements into executable systems and guidelines. Apply user-experience thinking to multilingual, consumer-facing content.

Localization Director (Volunteer) at Translations Commons

Lead global localization strategy for a nonprofit empowering under-resourced languages. Build scalable localization frameworks, standards, and best practices for volunteer communities worldwide. Oversee teams of project managers, translators, and reviewers across multiple projects and languages. Design workflows, tools, and training resources to improve translation quality and efficiency.

Partner Enablement PM at Microsoft

Supported Microsoft's partner GoDaddy in selling Microsoft 365 products and onboarding their customers. Developed strategies, monitored key engagement metrics like product usage, assessed future product requirements and resolved issues.

Global Site Manager at Microsoft

Managed international sites for Microsoft 365 commercial pre-sales. Drove SMB sales growth in international markets by improving the international end-to-end customer journey. Provided data-backed strategic guidance for market-specific optimization projects. Designed and operationalized the team’s A/B testing program to evaluate and scale improvements. Direct contribution to +42% YoY NCSA growth in international markets in first year on the job.

Senior Program Manager at Microsoft

Owned linguistic quality strategy for Skype Localization. Onboarded new language service providers in translation space. Spearheaded data-driven language strategy across Skype. Coordinated Microsoft’s cross-organizational initiative on language offerings planning. On-boarded new Skype products to localization workflows. Led international expansion of Microsoft Teams by driving first-time localization into 18 languages for initial release (March 2017).

International Project Manager at Microsoft

Managed localization for several Lync and Skype products (incl. Lync for Windows/Skype for Business for Windows, Lync for Windows 8 Store App and Skype for Windows 10). Influenced development teams to ensure world-readiness and market suitability of their products, incl. global aspects of rebranding strategy from Lync to Skype for Business. Drove the overall linguistic quality strategy in the Skype Intl team, from setting up review/QA processes to defining transcreation strategies for skype.com marketing content. Acted as geopolitical champion and global readiness expert for Skype.

Adjunct Faculty at City University of New York

Instructor for Localization and Terminology Management.