Project Manager, Gaming Localization Production

• Own end-to-end delivery of localization projects from quoting and scoping through scheduling, resourcing, budget tracking, final delivery and invoicing across multiple titles and languages.
• Manage transcreation and marketing localization work streams.
• Coordinate subtitling, AI and human voiceover, and video localization, including timing, rendering, editing and final QC.
• Oversee DTP workflows for localized packaging, manuals and marketing collateral.
• Run linguistic and mechanical/functional QC, track issues to resolution, and feed recurring themes into style guides, glossaries and linguist onboarding.
• Serve as day-to-day customer contact for delivery matters, manage workflows through local market review and completion, surface risks, and run status/retrospective calls.
• Manage high-volume, high-stakes account work streams and drive customer satisfaction.
• Build and maintain project schedules and resourcing plans in Workfront, Google Sheets and JIRA.
• Manage content intake, review cycles and publishing workflows with customer content and web teams.
• Use LILT proprietary AI localization tools and maintain customer-specific translation memories and termbases.
• Support vendor management, including onboarding and evaluating linguists and specialist vendors.
• Support other project managers by sharing production workflow and quality-standard best practices.

• Proven experience as a project manager in the localization industry, with direct experience delivering programs for a game publisher or games customer.
• Hands‑on experience managing transcreation, subtitling, DTP, video rendering/editing and linguistic/mechanical QC workflows concurrently across multiple languages.
• Strong working knowledge of AEM, Workfront and Jira (or directly comparable content, work‑management and issue‑tracking tools).
• Practical experience with AI localization tools and translation memory / terminology management.
• Confident user of Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Slides) for reporting, tracking and customer‑facing documentation.
• Experience managing high‑volume, high‑stakes customer accounts, with excellent stakeholder management across internal teams, linguists and customer contacts.
• Comfort with budget tracking and vendor/linguist management as part of day‑to‑day delivery.
• Strong organizational skills and comfort managing multiple concurrent, deadline‑driven work streams.
• Clear, confident written and verbal communication in English.
• Familiarity with quality frameworks such as ISO 17100 or ISO 9001 is nice to have.
• Experience working with global, multi‑time‑zone teams is nice to have.

Demonstrates expertise in managing end-to-end localization projects, including transcreation, subtitling, and DTP workflows, while ensuring high-quality delivery and customer satisfaction. Proficient in utilizing project management tools and AI localization technologies to streamline processes and enhance communication across global teams.

• Project Management in Localization
• Transcreation and Subtitling Management
• AI Localization Tools Experience
• Workfront and Jira Proficiency
• Stakeholder Management

• Localization Project Management
• Transcreation Management
• Subtitling Workflows
• DTP Workflows
• Linguistic QC
• Mechanical QC
• Budget Tracking
• Vendor Management
• Content Management
• Quality Frameworks Familiarity

• Organizational Skills
• Clear Communication
• Stakeholder Management

• Localization Industry
• Game Publishing
• Translation Memory Management
• Terminology Management
• ISO 17100
• ISO 9001

• Workfront
• Jira
• Google Workspace
• LILT AI Localization Tools