Project Manager, Localization & Audio

1 Month ago • All levels • Audio

Job Summary

Job Description

Metacore, a mobile game company established in 2020, is seeking an experienced Localization & Audio Project Manager to enhance the quality and cultural relevance of their game content. The role involves managing localization and audio needs across various teams and external partners, with the opportunity to improve existing workflows. Responsibilities include coordinating production, tracking source text readiness, ensuring glossary consistency, setting and managing deadlines, preparing localization batches, responding to QA queries, managing audio task prioritization, liaising with partners, and improving delivery workflows. The position supports internal teams with localization and audio-related inquiries.
Must have:
  • Extensive experience in localization, audio coordination, or game production support
  • Proactive and motivated to optimize workflows
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills
  • High attention to detail and follow-through
  • Ability to build cross-disciplinary workflows
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Experience managing external vendors
Good to have:
  • Experience in mobile game production
  • Familiarity with audio production pipelines
  • Knowledge of Gridly, Linear, Notion, Google Suite
  • Understanding of localization QA processes

Job Details

We are a mobile game company, based in both Helsinki and Berlin, creating world-class entertainment by building a portfolio of hit games. Since our launch in 2020, our first chart-topping game Merge Mansion has been entertaining over 60 million players worldwide, and we have grown into a team of over 250.

Our mission is to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, with our games, and also through our creative marketing, community, and beyond – while having fun with it. 

We’re ordinary people crafting extraordinary games with passion and ambition, united by our culture of trust, psychological safety and wellbeing.

We are looking for a highly experienced Localization & Audio Project Manager to support the delivery of high-quality, culturally resonant game content. Joining the Merge Mansion team, you will actively manage and drive localization and audio needs across multiple sub-teams and partners. You will have the mandate to develop and improve our ways of working, ensuring timely and seamless integration of audio and localized assets into our games.

More about Metacore crafts: https://metacoregames.com/our-crafts

Responsibilities

  • Actively driving and coordinating localization and audio production with game teams, producers, and external partners
  • Tracking English source text readiness, and collaborating with copywriters and developers to ensure timely delivery
  • Monitoring and enforcing glossary consistency, game terminology, and tone of voice
  • Setting and communicating deadlines for localization and audio deliverables, and following through to ensure completion
  • Preparing and sending localization batches to partners, along with testing instructions
  • Responding to localization QA team queries and assisting with configurations to test features effectively
  • Tracking, triaging, and following up on localization and audio-related bugs
  • Managing prioritization of audio tasks in collaboration with producers and feature teams
  • Liaising with localization and audio partners, and ensuring clear communication and expectations
  • Continuously improving workflows and tools to support scalable and robust delivery
  • Supporting internal teams (Feature teams, Player Experience, Marketing) with queries related to localization and audio

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in localization, audio coordination, or a related game production support role
  • Proactive, ambitious, and internally motivated to optimize workflows and tackle challenges
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills
  • High attention to detail and strong follow-through
  • Ability to build efficient workflows and structures across disciplines
  • Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally
  • Experience working with external vendors and managing partner relationships

In addition to these, it would be nice but not mandatory for you to have some of these as well:

  • Experience working in mobile game production environments
  • Familiarity with audio production pipelines
  • Tools knowledge: Gridly, Linear, Notion, Google Suite, or similar platforms
  • An understanding of localization QA processes and text integration

Basics

  • Location: Helsinki, Finland
  • Relocation: Relocating to Finland expected, full support provided
  • Work model: Mix of office and remote work
  • Working language: English

Our equal opportunity statement

To entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, we need diverse teams that understand our diverse audiences. The key to unleash our creativity is a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture of trust where Metacoreans from all walks of life can be themselves. We celebrate our differences and believe they are the strength that drives us forward.

We are committed to offering equal opportunities for all, regardless of background, age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, sexual orientation, family status, education, socioeconomic status or any other characteristic. We build and maintain a workplace and industry free of harassment and discrimination.

We also aspire to have DE&I as a fundamental part of our game design process to enable us to create even better and more inclusive games, communities and entertainment.

If you require any support or have specific needs during the application process, please don't hesitate to let us know. We look forward to hearing from you!

 

Our culture

Our culture is based on trust, psychological safety and wellbeing. At Metacore, autonomy and accountability go firmly hand in hand, and we cultivate a diverse and inclusive workplace where you can be yourself.

We are collaborative and humble, and think “we” before “me”. We enable focus through transparency and ownership. We aim high, and aspire to be nothing less than the best game company in the world to work for.

To create even better games, communities and entertainment, we welcome talent with diverse experiences, who are passionate about their roles and bold in their ambition. 

We have collectively defined our culture and values, and we uphold them together, every day.

Read more about our culture: https://metacoregames.com/culture

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About The Company

We are a mobile game company, based in both Helsinki and Berlin, creating world-class entertainment by building a portfolio of hit games. Since our launch in 2020, our first chart-topping game Merge Mansion has been entertaining over 60 million players worldwide, and we have grown into a team of over 250. Our mission is to entertain hundreds of millions of people for decades, with our games, and also through our creative marketing, community, and beyond – while having fun with it. We’re ordinary people crafting extraordinary games with passion and ambition, united by our culture of trust, psychological safety and wellbeing.

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