Playground Games
Localisation Producer - Agency Contract
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Playground Games is looking for a Localisation Producer to work alongside our talented Forza Horizon team in Leamington Spa on an agency contract.
About Us
As a premier first-party Xbox Game Studio, we are passionate about creating genre-defining games that are accessible, beautiful, and, most of all, fun. As we continue to evolve our BAFTA award-winning Forza Horizon franchise, we are looking for exceptional talent to contribute to our already diverse team of developers.
About the Role
As a Localisation Producer, you will collaborate with internal development teams, and our external localisation and QA partner team, to deliver a high-quality localised experience for our players. You will assume responsibility for the localisation pipeline, bringing clarity and consensus, managing the localisation schedule and budget, identifying risks, overseeing quality, and striving to improve internal and external production methods.
This position is offered on an agency contract, with the successful candidate employed by our trusted agency partner and assigned to work with Playground Games. The role is based at our state-of-the-art studio in Royal Leamington Spa, operating under our hybrid working model with a minimum of three days per week in the studio.
Please note, as this position is offered through a managed service provider, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
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What You'll Do
- Be the key contact for all localisation enquiries for Forza Horizon.
- Organise and drive the localisation schedule with our development team and external partners.
- Take ownership of the localisation budget, ensuring spending is planned and tracked, quotes and POs are created, and invoices are being approved.
- Become an expert in our existing text and localisation pipelines and tools.
- Become an expert in our text-formatting process and UI systems, and ensure localisation teams are properly informed.
- Refine, evolve, and strengthen those pipelines and tools with a focus on efficiency and quality.
- Evaluate text/VO additions and alterations and ensure external partners receive context to ensure accurate translations.
- Take ownership for the game-term glossary/context-usage/and style-guideline for common game vernacular.
- Promote best practices in development to maintain high standards of production and delivery.
- Oversee a Quality approach to localisation, improving processes and maintain standards.
- Coordinate feedback from localisation partners, QA, and development staff on discovered quality or process issues and drive rectification and improvement.
- Make manual updates for English strings resulting from script or UI changes, to identify and correct errors in spelling and grammar.
- Take ownership for the management and action against localisation bugs within the database.
- Problem-solve issues resulting from localisation hand-backs, including making manual fixes when required.
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What You'll Bring
- Previous localisation management experience with driving process, schedule, and quality successfully for a range of languages simultaneously.
- 3+ years of experience working on large-scale AAA games with active live-programs is desired.
- Experience with multi-platform titles, and platform-specific terminology is preferable.
- A proactive, organized, and detail-focused attitude.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- A genuine passion for video games.
- An interest in driving games and the Forza Horizon franchise is a plus.
- Experience with the Gridly localisation package is a nice-to-have.
Why Join Us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a world-class game while working alongside an established, talented, and collaborative team at one of the industry's most exciting first-party game studios.
If you require any reasonable accommodation to apply for this position, please contact us on recruitment@playground-games.com.
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