About Us

Winning together

Most companies don't need another translation vendor. They need someone to take localization off their plate entirely — routing, QA, delivery, formatting, scaling — so they can get back to creating content.

80K

requests managed per month

60 sec

average processing time

98.7%

on-time delivery

We don't run your business. We just make sure localization never slows it down. Fast-moving teams trust us because from the moment you submit a request, your project is live, assigned, and in production in under 60 seconds. We deliver on time 98.7% of the time, and keep the same team on your account for years.

With Kobalt, you get senior talent who knows your brand, workflows that plug into your stack, and AI where it actually makes sense. Plus, we’re easy to work with (or so we’re told).

You own the content. We own the operation.

Before building Kobalt, Ricard spent 10 seasons managing all Spanish content for the McLaren Formula 1 team — press releases, broadcast, web — every race weekend, in real time.

He also translated over 300 films for Spanish cinemas, including Million Dollar Baby and The A-Team (he always talks about The A-Team).

Fun fact

Meet the K Team

Senior people who make decisions, not account coordinators reading scripts. Our clients work directly with the team that runs their operation — and that team doesn't change every 6 months.

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Ricard Sierra

Founder & CEO

27 years in localization. 10 seasons running Spanish content for McLaren F1. 12+ years managing ZARA's localization with the same team. Ricard founded Kobalt in 2010 because he saw that localization wasn't a service problem — it was a systems problem. The industry kept adding translators. He built an operation. That bet is now called Localization Operations as a Service, and it's what CSA Research calls the future of the industry.

Myriam Garcia

Head of Tech

Kobalt's first hire. Now the architect behind our AI Quality Orchestration platform and every client integration we run. Myriam builds the systems that let us plug into any stack — Phrase, Contentful, Slack, custom CMS — without clients changing how they work. She designs the workflows that handle 80,000+ requests a month. If it runs smoothly, Myriam built it.

Marta Figuerola

Head of Strategic Accounts

Marta sits between our biggest clients and our operations team — making sure business goals turn into delivery plans and that both sides stay aligned. She manages the relationships that have lasted 12+ years with ZARA and 14+ with Quirón. When clients say they feel like Kobalt is part of their internal team, it's usually because Marta made it feel that way. Also: never met a fashion sale she didn't spot first.

Ignasi Iglesias

CFO & Advisor

Ignasi joined Kobalt in 2014 after a career in corporate finance. He leads financial strategy and operations — the part of the business that makes transparent pricing and no-hidden-fees possible. Sustainable growth, compliance, and smart decisions. The steady hand behind the numbers.

Bea Martínez

Senior Operations Lead

Bea leads our project management team — the people who make sub-minute response times and 98.7% on-time delivery actually happen, day after day. She oversees workloads, supports PMs, and keeps production running no matter how many moving parts are in play. Calm under pressure, and the reason our operations scale without breaking.

Built to keep great people.

Ricard built Kobalt as the company he always wanted to work for. That's not a tagline — it's how we've kept the same core team for over a decade. In an industry where PM rotation every 6-18 months is normal, our talent stays. That continuity is what makes 12-year client relationships possible.

This was never just about translation.

In 2010, Kobalt started as a traditional language service provider. By 2017, we had an insight: localization wasn't a service problem — it was a systems problem. Companies didn't need more translators or another platform. They needed someone to orchestrate the whole operation.

So we rebuilt Kobalt around that idea. We stopped selling words and started managing workflows. We stopped rotating PMs and started keeping the same team on accounts for years. We stopped forcing clients onto our tools and started integrating into theirs.

Today we call it Localization Operations as a Service. CSA Research calls it the future of the industry. We just call it how things should have worked all along.

Come work with us!

We are always looking for talented individuals to join our growing team.

Are you passionate about languages, communication and technology? Are you willing to explore new ways of doing things and bring your ideas to the table? Do you share our common goal of helping brands go beyond plain understood in order to win in all their markets?