Responsibilities
ZH→EN Transcreation & Quality Assurance: Rewrite storylines, character dialogue, event and quest copy, and UI text from Simplified Chinese into natural, idiomatic English, faithfully recreating tone, emotion, humor, pacing, and character voice.
Linguistic Asset Management: Build and maintain terminology databases, style guides, character voice profiles, naming conventions, and translation memories to ensure consistent style across versions and chapters.
Review & Standardization: Review output from internal and external translators, provide specific and actionable revision suggestions, and distill individual judgment into reusable team standards.
LQA & Delivery Assurance: Organize in-game language quality assurance across development and live-operation builds; identify, classify, track, and verify issue resolution to closure, delivering on schedule in sync with release cadence.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Work with design, narrative, art, publishing, and other teams to proactively flag cultural sensitivities from the target-market perspective, ensuring cultural adaptation is addressed at early stages.
Qualifications
Native or near-native English speaker with a solid foundation in writing, editing, and proofreading; fluent in reading and writing Chinese, able to directly comprehend and interpret nuances in the Chinese source text.
3+ years of experience in game localization or a related field; must have been involved end-to-end in the launch and ongoing live-ops updates of at least one long-term operated title.
Familiarity with the full localization workflow and tooling: CAT/TMS, terminology management, translation memory, LQA processes, and defect management.
Strong cultural sensitivity and editorial judgment — not satisfied with literal translation; able to propose better idiomatic rewrites and articulate the rationale.
Excellent communication and scheduling skills; comfortable working in cross-cultural team environments.
Bonus Points
- Familiarity with casual games or female-oriented content expression.
- Experience building a localization system from scratch or managing external vendors.
- Knowledge of automated QA tooling or AI-assisted translation tools.
Skills Required
- Native or near-native English speaker with strong writing, editing, and proofreading skills
- Fluent in reading and writing Chinese to comprehend source text nuances
- 3+ years experience in game localization or a related field
- End-to-end involvement in launch and live-ops updates of at least one long-term operated title
- Familiarity with full localization workflow and tooling (CAT/TMS, terminology management, translation memory, LQA, defect management)
- Strong cultural sensitivity and editorial judgment; ability to produce idiomatic rewrites
- Excellent communication and scheduling skills; comfortable in cross-cultural teams
- Familiarity with casual games or female-oriented content expression
- Experience building a localization system or managing external vendors
- Knowledge of automated QA tooling or AI-assisted translation tools
What We Do
NetEase Games, the video games division of NetEase, Inc., is a leading global video game developer and publisher, with operations in nine countries including owning global games studios that operate independently in North America, Europe and Japan. We have developed and published international titles such as Knives Out, Harry Potter: Magic Awakened, and Naraka: Bladepoint. NetEase Games works with other industry leaders and premium intellectual property holders to co-develop, distribute and market video games and content to players globally. Since our founding in 2001, we have developed or published hundreds of mobile, console and PC video games.
