Senior Localization Project Manager: Games

2 Months ago • 7 Years + • Localization

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Localization Project Manager for video games at Localsoft, you'll manage multilingual projects across various platforms and genres. Your responsibilities include full project ownership (RFQ to delivery), ensuring exceptional service and customer satisfaction, developing strong client relationships, implementing solutions, and improving margins. You will lead kick-off meetings, create proposals, track costs, manage risks, and collaborate with internal teams like LQA. You'll also be involved in process improvement recommendations, resource management, and identifying new business opportunities. The role requires strong project management skills, experience in games localization, and proficiency in English.
Must have:
  • 7+ years games localization experience
  • Outstanding project management skills
  • Multilingual project management
  • Quality standards knowledge
  • Problem-solving & proactive attitude
  • Customer relationship management
Good to have:
  • Experience with ISO-based requirements
  • Leading in-house translation teams
  • MT and AI experience
  • Japanese customer experience
  • memoQ CAT tool proficiency
Perks:
  • 23 paid holidays
  • 12 paid bank holidays
  • Summer timetable
  • Yearly medical check
  • Cafeteria & games
  • Fresh fruit
  • Soft drinks, tea & coffee
  • Free parking
  • Company events
  • Relocation pack

Job Details

Description

Company Description

Localsoft, S.L. is a world-class localization company offering translation, testing and audio services. From our headquarters in the Málaga TechPark, Spain, we operate both locally and internationally with clients from many different business sectors including leading brands in the Games, IT and Business industries.

We are located in Málaga, near the beach and mountains. Our building is located 13 km from the city center in the beautiful Málaga TechPark, surrounded by large green spaces (https://www.pta.es/en/).

We are expanding and currently hiring an experienced Senior Localization Project Manager for the Video Games vertical to work in our fast-paced Localization Department with English as our main language of communication.

If you are a team player, a problem solver and have a minimum of 7 years experience in games localization, we would like to hear from you!

Visit: www.localsoftgames.com

Role

As a Senior Project Manager, you will manage multilingual projects of different platforms, genres and sizes in a deadline-driven environment. You will be taking full ownership of your projects from RFQ to final delivery, ensuring exceptional service with successful project completion and consistent customer satisfaction while developing relationships and meeting or exceeding their expectations. You are expected to bring industry knowledge sharing best practices, technical and strategic solutions and meet or improve the expected margins.

Requirements

  • A degree in Translation, Linguistics, Business or similar
  • A minimum of 3 years experience in games Localization Project Management in a senior PM level in the games vertical
  • Outstanding Project Management skills: communication, planning, organization
  • Knowledge of quality standards, quality evaluation practices and tools
  • Able to manage multilingual projects in a deadline-driven environment
  • Able to anticipate possible issues and challenges
  • Able to successfully solve unexpected issues with minor impact and with a proactive and positive “can do” attitude
  • Proactive in solutions implementation, process improvements and customer-facing aspects
  • Able to negotiate effectively
  • Flexible with working hours
  • CAT Tools: especially memoQ
  • IT literacy: especially Microsoft Office suite
  • Languages: English with full working proficiency, other languages are a plus
  • Experience working with ISO-based requirements is a plus
  • Experience in leading in-house translation teams on-site is a plus
  • Experience in MT and AI is a plus
  • Experience with Japanese customers is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Ensure overall customer satisfaction
  • Communicate with customers regularly including face-to-face meetings to find out their needs and concerns
  • Customer meetings, post-mortems, project admin, meeting minutes, etc.
  • Full ownership of successful project execution and delivery according to customer's quality expectations, time and budget requirements
  • Prepare and lead kick-off meetings and ongoing project meetings
  • Proposal creation, project analysis, planning, scheduling, status reports
  • Cost tracking ensuring margins and expected profitability
  • Risk analysis and mitigation plans
  • Follow and create ISO-based procedures making recommendations for process improvements
  • Build good relationships, provide leadership and mentoring to team members including quality assurance processes, resource selection, costs, etc.
  • Efficient collaboration with LQA department
  • Resource selection, monitoring and management
  • Identify new business opportunities

Benefits

What we offer

  • Full-time position in a well-established localization/testing company
  • Opportunity to work with a professional international team in a dynamic and friendly work environment
  • Opportunity to work with renowned clients worldwide
  • Opportunity to work on exciting game projects
  • 23 paid holidays per calendar year
  • 12 paid bank holidays per calendar year
  • Summer timetable
  • Free yearly medical check
  • Cafeteria & Games
  • Fresh Fruit
  • Soft drinks, tea & coffee
  • Free Parking
  • Company events / Get-togethers
  • Relocation pack

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About The Company

Localsoft is a world-class, one-stop localization service provider with more than 30 years of experience in localizations.

Localsoft translates documentation, software, manuals, websites, on-screen text and promotional material into and from 150 languages. Additionally, Localsoft offers desktop publishing, English and foreign-language voiceovers, testing and quality assurance.

We have localized well over 200 million words in a variety of languages for a long list of clients around the world. Our highly specialized teams of translators, proofreaders and voiceover animators are among the best in the business. Our in-house staff works around the clock so that you can bring your product to market on time and within budget. Localsoft has the know-how and the experience to make your next project a success in the international market.

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