Our global footprint across Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas enables us to run 24-hour follow-the-sun workflows, our professional translators and game developers continue to work on your project around the clock, delivering on even the most challenging timelines.
The team at Keywords Studios handle media localization and translation services for any project size, from indie to AAA games. We help you speak to global audiences by translating your games for your target language and dialect, and ensure expert quality control throughout the game development and translation process through both technology solutions and human oversight.
Role overview:
We are looking for a dynamic English writer / editor to join our localization team on our next adventure. With a passion for videogames, style and strong sense of quality, you will directly impact the player experience with texts that bring our characters to life and make the content compelling and culturally relatable to the player community.
In this fully in-house position, you will use your creative mind and academic skillsets to help shape the stories of the future! You will review content localized from Japanese to English and apply your skills to seasonal and permanent content, as well as offer cards, informational popups, and just about anything else the player might read in-game!
This role requires excellent language skills, creativity and a passion for Games.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Establish and maintain a consistent voice that reflects the game's overall vision and aligns with its target audience
- Work closely with the localization and quality team game to ensure that the writing meets the game requirements and standards
- Adapt game content for different regions, ensuring cultural and linguistic nuances are handled correctly
- Ensure all written content meets the highest quality standards: culturally accurate, clear, and grammatically sound
Overview of the main assignments:
- Review & proofread English content previously localized from Japanese per the linguist team
- Re-write content to maximize its’ consistency with legacy content as well as alignment with cultural references and style
- Create, review and maintain style guides, glossaries and translation memories
- Fix linguistic bugs reported by the testing team
- Provide support and linguistic feedback to internal & external teams
- Become a subject matter expert on the game and its’ content
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Copywriter / video games linguist (in-house or freelancer)
- Native level proficiency in both spoken and written English
- Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N1 certification or equivalent capability
- BS or BA degree in English literature, translation or related field
- Experience working with Cat Tools
- Availability to work exclusively in-house from our Keywords Tokyo studio
- Passion for videogames
Benefits
- Health insurance, welfare pension insurance, occupational accident insurance etc.
- Commuting costs are covered up to 30,000 JPY per month
- Fukurikosei club
- Employee Assistant Program
- Free Japanese lesson
- Holiday: Full weekly two-day system (Saturday and Sunday), Public holiday, Annual paid leave, Congratulations and condolences holiday etc.
We thank all applicants in advance for their interest in this position; however, please understand that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Our employees are our most valuable resource; therefore we provide them with a competitive compensation package commensurate with skills and experience, excellent benefits, high level of job satisfaction and a casual and fun work environment.
By providing your information in this application, you understand that we will collect and process your information in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice. For more information, please see our Applicant Privacy Notice at https://www.keywordsstudios.com/en/applicant-privacy-notice.
Role Information: EN
Studio: Keywords Studios
Location: APAC, Japan, Tokyo
Area of Work: Localization
Service: Globalize
Employment Type: Full-time, 6-months FTC
Working Pattern: In-office
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What We Do
Keywords Studios is an international technical and creative services provider to the global video games industry and beyond.
We bring to life digital content that entertains, connects, challenges and educates people worldwide.
Established in 1998, and now with more than 65 facilities in 22 countries strategically located in Asia, the Americas, Australia and Europe, we provide integrated art creation, marketing services, software engineering, testing, localization, audio and customer care services across more than 50 languages and 16 games platforms to a blue-chip client base of more than 950 clients across the globe.
