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Project Manager, Gaming Localization Production

California, MO • On-site

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Posted 6 days ago

Job description

  • Own end-to-end delivery of localization projects from quoting and scoping through scheduling, resourcing, budget tracking, final delivery and invoicing across multiple titles and languages.
  • Manage transcreation and marketing localization workstreams.
  • Coordinate subtitling, AI and human voiceover, and video localization, including timing, rendering, editing and final QC.
  • Oversee DTP workflows for localized packaging, manuals and marketing collateral.
  • Run linguistic and mechanical/functional QC, track issues to resolution, and feed recurring themes into style guides, glossaries and linguist onboarding.
  • Serve as day-to-day customer contact for delivery matters, manage workflows through local market review and completion, surface risks, and run status/retrospective calls.
  • Manage high-volume, high-stakes account workstreams and drive customer satisfaction.
  • Build and maintain project schedules and resourcing plans in Workfront, Google Sheets and JIRA.
  • Manage content intake, review cycles and publishing workflows with customer content and web teams.
  • Use LILT proprietary AI localization tools and maintain customer-specific translation memories and termbases.
  • Support vendor management, including onboarding and evaluating linguists and specialist vendors.
  • Support other project managers by sharing production workflow and quality-standard best practices.
Requirements
  • Proven experience as a project manager in the localization industry, with direct experience delivering programs for a game publisher or games customer.
  • Hands‑on experience managing transcreation, subtitling, DTP, video rendering/editing and linguistic/mechanical QC workflows concurrently across multiple languages.
  • Strong working knowledge of AEM, Workfront and Jira (or directly comparable content, work‑management and issue‑tracking tools).
  • Practical experience with AI localization tools and translation memory / terminology management.
  • Confident user of Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides) for reporting, tracking and customer‑facing documentation.
  • Experience managing high‑volume, high‑stakes customer accounts, with excellent stakeholder management across internal teams, linguists and customer contacts.
  • Comfort with budget tracking and vendor/linguist management as part of day‑to‑day delivery.
  • Strong organizational skills and comfort managing multiple concurrent, deadline‑driven workstreams.
  • Clear, confident written and verbal communication in English.
  • Familiarity with quality frameworks such as ISO 17100 or ISO 9001 is nice to have.
  • Experience working with global, multi‑time‑zone teams is nice to have.
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in managing end-to-end localization projects, including transcreation, subtitling, and DTP workflows, while ensuring high-quality delivery and customer satisfaction. Proficient in utilizing project management tools and AI localization technologies to streamline processes and enhance communication across global teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • Project Management in Localization
  • Transcreation and Subtitling Management
  • AI Localization Tools Experience
  • Workfront and Jira Proficiency
  • Stakeholder Management
ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills
  • Localization Project Management
  • Transcreation Management
  • Subtitling Workflows
  • DTP Workflows
  • Linguistic QC
  • Mechanical QC
  • Budget Tracking
  • Vendor Management
  • Content Management
  • Quality Frameworks Familiarity
Soft Skills
  • Organizational Skills
  • Clear Communication
  • Stakeholder Management
Industry Keywords
  • Localization Industry
  • Game Publishing
  • Translation Memory Management
  • Terminology Management
  • ISO 17100
  • ISO 9001
Tools & Technologies
  • Workfront
  • Jira
  • Google Workspace
  • LILT AI Localization Tools
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