Localization Linguist (ZH→EN) (Singapore)

Job description

**Responsibilities** 1. **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. 2. **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. 3. **Review & Standardization**: Review output from internal and external translators, provide specific and actionable revision suggestions, and distill individual judgment into reusable team standards. 4. **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. 5. **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** 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Familiarity with the full localization workflow and tooling: CAT/TMS, terminology management, translation memory, LQA processes, and defect management. 4. Strong cultural sensitivity and editorial judgment — not satisfied with literal translation; able to propose better idiomatic rewrites and articulate the rationale. 5. 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.