Localization Project Manager (f/d/m) – Video Game Localization

12 Minutes ago • 2 Years +
Project Management

Job Description

Altagram is seeking a Localization Project Manager passionate about video games and multilingual storytelling. This role involves leading localization projects for global clients, managing cross-functional collaboration, and driving strategic improvements. You will work on exciting titles from indie to AAA, shaping quality, process, and client experience. Responsibilities include coordinating day-to-day operations, managing budgets, acting as client liaison, overseeing the full localization lifecycle, and ensuring all output meets IP-specific requirements.
Good To Have:
  • Additional languages are a plus.
  • A background working with or for AAA developers or major game studios is an advantage.
  • Familiarity with MTPE workflows is also considered an advantage.
  • Experience with audio projects and/or LQA is a real plus.
Must Have:
  • Lead and coordinate day-to-day operations to ensure high-quality localization for video game titles across multiple platforms.
  • Manage budgets, ensure timely invoicing and purchase orders, and prepare detailed financial reports.
  • Act as the primary liaison between internal teams and clients, providing clear and timely updates.
  • Facilitate kick-off and post-mortem meetings to refine workflows and improve project outcomes.
  • Oversee the full localization lifecycle, from text to audio to LQA, ensuring cross-service collaboration.
  • Assign and coordinate work among internal teams, external linguists, and language specialists to ensure alignment and consistency.
  • Provide regular status reports, flagging risks and tracking project progress.
  • Ensure that all output meets IP-specific requirements, including tone, terminology, and style.
  • Exceptional English communication skills both written and spoken.
  • 2+ years of experience managing localization projects.
  • Excellent client-facing, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Proactive, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple complex projects under tight deadlines.
  • Proficiency with localization tools (e.g., memoQ), file formats, and standard industry software.
  • Solid understanding of localization best practices.
Perks:
  • Feel free to work remotely up to 90 days per year – from wherever you like.
  • Additional leave entitlements that continue to grow each year after your first year.
  • Regular feedback, performance and salary review annually.
  • Performance-related bonus.
  • Subsidy for the BVG public transport ticket for Berlin-based team members.
  • Enjoy the warm seasons in our beautiful office garden.
  • In our kitchen you will always find snacks or a variety of drinks.
  • Gaming room to play darts or fire up one of the consoles.
  • We also welcome your furry companions to the office!

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###### LEVEL UP AND START A NEW ADVENTURE!

Are you a Project Manager with a passion for video games and multilingual storytelling? Altagram is looking for a Localization Project Manager to join our growing in-house team.

In this role, you’ll work on a number of localization projects for leading global clients, manage cross-functional collaboration, and help drive strategic improvements. You’ll work on some of the industry’s most exciting titles, from indie to AAA, while playing a key role in shaping quality, process, and client experience across the board.

YOUR ROLE

  • Lead and coordinate day-to-day operations to ensure high-quality localization for video game titles across multiple platforms.
  • Manage budgets, ensure timely invoicing and purchase orders, and prepare detailed financial reports.
  • Act as the primary liaison between internal teams and clients, providing clear and timely updates.
  • Facilitate kick-off and post-mortem meetings to refine workflows and improve project outcomes.
  • Oversee the full localization lifecycle, from text to audio to LQA, ensuring cross-service collaboration.
  • Assign and coordinate work among internal teams, external linguists, and language specialists to ensure alignment and consistency.
  • Provide regular status reports, flagging risks and tracking project progress.
  • Ensure that all output meets IP-specific requirements, including tone, terminology, and style.

##### Your profile

  • Exceptional English communication skills both written and spoken; additional languages are a plus.
  • 2+ years of experience managing localization projects, ideally in the video game industry with an agency or game publisher.
  • A background working with or for AAA developers or major game studios is an advantage.
  • Familiarity with MTPE workflows is also considered an advantage.
  • Experience with audio projects and/or LQA is a real plus.
  • Excellent client-facing, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Proactive, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple complex projects under tight deadlines.
  • Proficiency with localization tools (e.g., memoQ), file formats, and standard industry software.
  • Solid understanding of localization best practices.

##### Why us?

The heart of our success lies in our powerful, diverse team, strengthened by their care and understanding for each other. As a member of the Altagram Group, you can expect to work in an exciting environment filled with passionate people who share your devotion for detail and love for games. We bring together the top talents from different levels of experience - from budding beginners, all the way up to professionals.

At Altagram everyone is celebrated for their unique backgrounds, life experiences and mindsets. We value personal growth and strive for an equal opportunity workplace that welcomes every individual. We strongly believe that when we create space for everyone's story - from wherever it originates - we will thrive as a result of this collective knowledge! Together our different perspectives will empower us on a journey towards innovation in our industry, setting new standards along the way.

Join us today so that your voice may help shape tomorrow!

SOME OF OUR BENEFITS

  • Feel free to work remotely up to 90 days per year – from wherever you like. We trust you to find the best environment to stay productive and balanced.
  • We support a harmonious work-life balance. After your first year with us, you’ll receive additional leave entitlements that continue to grow each year because we believe in rewarding long-term commitment.
  • At Altagram, regular feedback is a key part of our culture. We believe in transparent communication and continuous development. Every year, all employees benefit from both a performance and salary review. To recognize individual contributions, we also offer a performance-related bonus.
  • To make your commute easier, all Berlin-based team members also benefit from a subsidy for the BVG public transport ticket.
  • Enjoy the warm seasons in our beautiful office garden, which truly comes to life in spring and summer. Whether you're taking your meeting outdoors, working from your laptop in the sun, or enjoying your lunch surrounded by greenery, there’s always a space to recharge. Our popular barbecues and lively gatherings with clients and partners bring the team together and keep our community spirit strong.
  • In our kitchen you will always find snacks or a variety of drinks. Grab a cold beer after work and end the day with a chat with your teammates.
  • Need a quick reset during the day? Head to our gaming room to play darts or fire up one of the consoles. Choose from a curated library of games and challenge your teammates – fun and friendly competition included.
  • We also welcome your furry companions to the office! Embrace the paw-sitive vibes as pets bring joy and a calming energy to our workplace.

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