Global Localisation Director — Remote

Workplays; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible employment terms

Remote/Hybrid work options

Engaging team environment

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Workplays is seeking a Head of Localisation to own all translation efforts for our mobile RPG portfolio. You will lead a network of external vendors, shape the localisation strategy, and partner with art and development teams to deliver high-quality, culturally tuned content across at least 10 languages, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

This role requires strong vendor relationships, budgeting, and pipeline management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional game localisation experience, with at least 2 years in a lead/managerial role.
• Proven track record shipping large-scale games in 10+ languages, preferably mobile free-to-play or live-service titles.
• Hands-on localisation into Asian languages (Japanese, Korean, and/or Chinese) and knowledge of their tech and cultural specifics.
• Strong experience managing translation agencies and freelancers, including vendor selection, rate negotiation, contracting, budgeting and settlement.
• Solid understanding of culturalisation and market adaptation, including age-rating, legal and content-sensitivity requirements in key regions.
• Experience with TMS/CAT tools and localisation pipelines (Crowdin, memoQ, Phrase, Smartling or similar).
• Ability to collaborate with art, design and engineering teams on implementation and technical constraints.
• Excellent organisational and project-management skills for handling many languages and parallel workstreams.
• Fluent English; clear written and verbal communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end localisation of the game across at least 10 languages, including three Asian languages.
• Define and execute localisation strategy, roadmap, budget and timelines.
• Select, onboard and manage external translation agencies and freelance linguists; negotiate rates and SLAs.
• Schedule translation work, track delivery, verify quality, and handle invoicing and settlements.
• Collaborate with art and development teams to implement translations, including UI, assets, fonts and text expansion constraints.
• Lead culturalisation: assess narrative, visuals, names, symbols and monetisation messaging for market fit and legal requirements.
• Build glossaries, style guides and translation memories to ensure IP consistency across languages.
• Set up localisation tools and pipelines with engineering for efficient workflows.
• Organise linguistic QA and in-context testing; manage bug tracking and resolution.
• Ensure localisation keeps pace with live operations like events and store pages.

Skills

Vendor management

Localization strategy

Project management

English fluency

Team leadership

Tools

Crowdin

memoQ

Phrase

Smartling

Job description

Workplays is seeking a Head of Localisation to own all translation efforts for our mobile RPG portfolio. You will lead a network of external vendors, shape the localisation strategy, and partner with art and development teams to deliver high-quality, culturally tuned content across at least 10 languages, including Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

This role requires strong vendor relationships, budgeting, and pipeline management.