As Player Engagement Team Lead, you'll bridge Keywords Studios and clients, ensuring project success. Key responsibilities include leading and motivating teams (local and remote), managing schedules based on client needs, addressing project issues, upholding studio standards, serving as an escalation point for client issues, conducting coaching sessions, managing team performance, monitoring ticket databases to meet KPIs and SLAs, creating reports and CRM views, and developing training materials. The role requires strong leadership, analytical, and communication skills, along with experience in customer support and familiarity with ticketing platforms like Helpshift or Zendesk. Native-level Japanese (JLPT N1 or above) and excellent English are essential. You will be responsible for ensuring smooth and efficient project operation, and will work to continuously improve processes and team performance.
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Since 1998, we've been on a mission to reshape how players interact with their favorite games, growing into a global team of over 12,000 professionals spread across 70+ studios in 26 countries.
We are always there to lend a hand to video games developers and publishers by offering a wide range of solutions: from art and audio to testing, localization and finally - Player Engagement - which is one of the fastest-growing Service Lines at Keywords Studios. Player Engagement provides technical support, community management, and trust & safety services for a wide range of AAA and Indie studios in the gaming industry.
Join us in our mission to build engaging player communities and offer outstanding experiences! 🎮🔥
Role overview
As the Player Engagement Team Lead, you will play a very important role in ensuring the success of our projects, being the bridge between Keywords Studios and our valued clients. You will be in charge of critical tasks, ensuring that everything runs smoothly and efficiently. One important part of your mission would be to lead, motivate, coach and train teams as well as creating schedules and performing tasks based on the clients’ requirements. 🚀🔥
What are we looking for?
Leadership:
Manage, set goals, and lead teams of specialists of varied sizes, both locally and remote.
Proactively address project issues with teams and Project Manager to prevent disruptions.
Uphold studio policy, process, and security standards as well as ensuring that project-related knowledge bases are up-to-date.
Serve as an escalation point for client's customer issues.
Train, coach shift leads, and conduct weekly one-on-one coaching sessions.
Provide appropriate positive recognition and disciplinary warnings.
Manage vacation requests, monitor attendance, and address lateness or absences.
Analytics:
Monitor and manage ticket databases to ensure project KPIs and SLAs are met.
Regularly review daily reports to identify and resolve anomalies.
Create CRM/tool views for enhanced visibility and reporting.
Good understanding of Player Support tools and processes, key support metrics, and how to apply them.
Ability to read/interpret reports.
Communication:
Maintain awareness of project status and provide regular reports to Operations Manager.
Conduct regular quality control checks, identifying coaching opportunities within project processes.
Business:
Create CRM/tool views for enhanced visibility and reporting.
Develop training materials and assist in identifying areas for training material enhancement.
Requirements:
Native level Japanese(JLPT N1 or above) and excellent English skills
Experience in Customer Support
Flexibility in Shift Schedule.
You'd be a great fit for this role if you have:
Ability to multitask and prioritize efficiently; work well under pressure and be flexible to change
Strong leadership skills and decision-making abilities; power to lead by example, encouraging others to keep a high standard of accuracy
Conflict management skills and providing constructive feedback
Ability to understand and meet deadlines
Self-motivation, innovative and analytical skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to evaluate personnel and identify talent
Familiarity with Helpshift, Zendesk or other ticketing platforms, Google suite
Social Insurance: Full Shakai Hoken(健康保険、厚生年金、雇用保険、労災保険)
Paid Annual Leave
Sick Leave
Employee Assistant Program
Language Program
Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Referral program
Medical check-up
Company Events
待遇・福利厚生
雇用形態:契約社員
社会保険完備
交通費支給(月額 3 万円を上限とし、オフィスへの出社日数に応じて実費支給)
在宅勤務手当(月額上限1万円)
有給休暇
傷病休暇
従業員アシスタントプログラム
語学プログラム(日本語/英語のレッスンサポート、資格取得サポート)
従業員持ち株会
社員紹介制度
健康診断(年1回)
社内イベント(お花見、BBQ、忘年会などオフラインでのイベントも多数🎉)
Working hours and days off
Working hours: 1 hour break and 8 hours of work
Days off: 2 days off a week based on shift schedule, national holidays
勤務スケジュールと休日
スケジュール:土日を含むシフト制(週5日勤務 )、実働8時間/日
休日:週2日(シフトによる)、祝日
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