Localization Coordinator (Simplified Chinese)

Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 279,000 - 469,000; Full time

Job summary

Bandai Namco Entertainment Asia is seeking a Localization Specialist to drive Japanese-to-Simplified Chinese translations with AI-assisted tools and rigorous reference materials. You will maintain glossaries, translation memories, and style guides while ensuring accuracy, tone, and platform-specific constraints across UI and content.

You will coordinate with vendors, prepare briefs, manage schedules, and track feedback, with a focus on confidentiality, IP rules, and traceability from source to

Qualifications

• Experience with AI-assisted translation workflows and glossary management.
• Familiarity with translation memories, style guides, and IP rules.
• Ability to coordinate localization vendors and track milestones.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Japanese-to-Simplified Chinese translations using approved tools and references.
• Coordinate with vendors, provide briefs, glossaries, and track delivery.
• Review Simplified Chinese content for accuracy, terminology, tone, and UI constraints.
• Support localization planning, tracking, risk monitoring, and status reporting.
• Build and maintain Simplified Chinese glossaries, memories, and style guides.

Tools

memoQ

CAT tools

TMS platforms

AI tools

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• 1. AI-Assisted First-Pass Translation Prepare Japanese-to-Simplified Chinese translation materials using approved localization tools and language references. Use approved AI-assisted tools to generate working translations, incorporating glossaries, translation memories, style guides, and title-specific references. Review translations for omissions, mistranslations, terminology errors, formatting issues, tone inconsistencies, and contextual inaccuracies. Identify content requiring human translation, additional context, clarification, or escalation due to ambiguity, creative sensitivity, platform terminology, legal context, or IP-specific requirements. Ensure compliance with internal security, confidentiality, copyright, and data-handling requirements. Maintain version control and traceability across source files, working translations, vendor-reviewed text, and approved deliverables.
• 2. Vendor Handoff & Coordination Prepare and provide vendors with source text, working translations, project briefs, glossaries, style guides, references, context notes, schedules, delivery formats, and quality expectations. Coordinate vendor communications, queries, clarifications, delivery follow-ups, issue tracking, and feedback consolidation. Distinguish unreviewed working content from approved terminology and validated translations. Maintain communication records, query logs, action trackers, and decision histories. Escalate quality, schedule, scope, confidentiality, and delivery risks to the Localization Manager.
• 3. Simplified Chinese Linguistic Review Review vendor-delivered Simplified Chinese content against Japanese source materials and available context. Check accuracy, completeness, terminology, character voice, tone, grammar, naturalness, cultural appropriateness, UI constraints, and consistency with project guidelines. Verify corrections to working translations and identify new issues introduced during vendor review. Provide actionable vendor feedback and document recurring errors for quality improvement. Recommend acceptance, rework, or escalation to the Localization Manager or designated approver.
• 4. Localization Project Coordination Support project planning, task tracking, milestone follow-up, dependency management, risk monitoring, and status reporting. Coordinate translation preparation, vendor review, internal linguistic review, LQA, and final submissions. Use memoQ, CAT tools, TMS platforms, approved AI tools, and internal tracking systems as required. Organize source files, working files, references, queries, reviewed deliverables, and approved final files to meet agreed timelines. Support improvements to localization workflows, review checkpoints, templates, and operating procedures.
• 5. Language Assets, Prompt Assets & Knowledge Base Build and maintain Simplified Chinese glossaries, translation memories, style guides, terminology notes, character and IP rules, restricted terms, and recurring issue logs. Maintain review checkli