Studio: Hooded Horse
Job Opening: Localization Producer
Type: Full-Time
Responsibilities:
- Planning: Gather information and plan each assigned localization project. Some of these tasks include putting together timelines, vetting different service providers, and ensuring that marketing, translators, and other stakeholders are lined up. You’ll help us make informed decisions throughout the planning process.
- Pipeline: Validate the localization pipeline. This includes preparing developers for localization by managing and sharing instructional documentation, as well as running dry runs and smoke tests.
- Coordination: Coordinate the translation and LQA process, ensuring a seamless workflow between developers, vendors, and translators.
- Vendor Relationship Management: This includes relationship-building, negotiation, and resolving various issues and challenges as they arise. We will occasionally run post-mortems and evaluate the performance of partners that we work with.
Qualifications & Skills:
- You have at least around 2 years of experience in a similar role in the games industry.
- Your English is completely fluent, both written and oral.
- You’re located in European or North American East Coast time zones.
- You’re highly organized and comfortable working with spreadsheets.
- You are detail-oriented. In fact, you just got stuck on the missing hyphen.
- You understand the importance and nuances of communication. You try to be proactive and consistent in your communication with stakeholders, ensuring we all remain on the same page and expectations are managed. To that end, you can easily break down and adapt information to make it digestible for the audience at hand.
- Similarly, your problem-solving skills allow you to break down complex situations and collaborate with others to find resolutions to them. You’re used to thinking sequentially and knowing when to be hands-on and when to step back.
- Adaptability and pragmatism are key traits as well. As each studio is unique and has a wide range of size and experience, you’ll need to enter the collaboration with an open and pragmatic mindset that lets you adapt to each context, allowing you to always come away with a good outcome.
Apply for the Job Online: To apply, email recruiting@hoodedhorse.com with the subject line “Localization Producer” and include your resume