Description
At Lockwood, our vision is to bring people together through Avakin Life so they can play, share and socialise! Listed as one of Europe’s fastest growing tech companies by the FT for 2020 as well as winning numerous TIGA and other awards several years in a row, our journey’s only just begun. With great benefits including an employee share scheme and profit related quarterly bonus, we’re a great destination for those who want to work on cutting edge social experiences in an environment that fosters communication and creativity. We’re always looking for good people – if you are interested in helping us shape Avakin Life’s future, this is a great opportunity.
Avakin Life’s 200 million registered users need an experienced Localisation Executive who can transform our words into content that connects in any region. The Localisation Executive will play a key role across several teams - including our LiveOps and Marketing departments - and will be responsible for ensuring the best quality translation of our social mobile app and related websites. In partnership with our translation agency, you will ensure daily localisation requests are processed and delivered accurately and on time, while improving the overall localisation process as a whole.
Using your language skills and cultural expertise, you will educate the business and facilitate the creation of messaging that resonates with a global audience. In addition, you will head up culture research projects alongside our country managers, assuring our content is ahead of the curve. You will need excellent attention to detail and be extremely self-motivated, with a results-driven and proactive attitude.
Responsibilities
- Delivering translation, transcreation and localisation services across multiple channels, business teams and markets;
- Managing production of weekly localised updates to coincide with the publishing schedule;
- Managing the day-to-day translation process end-to-end, from cultural review and research projects, through to briefing agencies and distributing localised copy within existing workflows;
- Maintaining the Lockwood Publishing translation memory and foreign-language messaging bank;
- Working in conjunction with translation agencies to facilitate and feedback on translation projects and manage relationships;
- Reviewing current in-game copy and pinpointing areas for improvement based on relevant data metrics;
- Conducting research reviews with internal natives and external agencies for inconsistencies, localisation issues and ongoing optimisations;
- Educating the wider business on translation guidelines and processes, sharing knowledge through training workshops when required;
- Building on and defining the existing tone of voice for regional markets in collaboration with the Marketing team;
- Optimising the localisation processes and finding efficiencies and opportunities to streamline actions and outputs;
- Applying cultural and language expertise to prepare comms and campaigns for market, while working and writing in-language where required.
Requirements
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience within a fast-paced language translation environment;
- Experience working with digital platforms and workflow tools, such as JIRA and Confluence;
- Experience scoping and scheduling transcreation within creative projects;
- Well-rounded knowledge of translation/transcreation and the processes/skills involved;
- Some experience of the creative process, contributing to ideation and creative campaigns;
- Meets quality, speed and cost standards consistently, even in times of change;
- Comfortable working across competing priorities and multiple campaigns;
- Passionate about video games with a background in the games industry;
- Ability to communicate clearly, a natural collaborator;
- Can quickly pick up new processes and systems but not afraid to highlight ways of improving efficiency to the team and wider business;
- Fluent in one or more languages, particularly Portugese-Brazilian, Russian or Spanish.
