Senior Game Localization Specialist

NETEASE INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT PTE.LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Familiarity with casual games

Experience with external vendors

Knowledge of AI-assisted translation

Job summary

NetEase Games in Singapore seeks a native English localization expert to lead English adaptations for live games. You’ll collaborate with design, narrative, art, and publishing teams to maintain tone, humor, and voice across all in‑game text and UI.

Responsibilities include building terminology databases, style guides, translation memories, and overseeing QA with translators to ensure consistent quality on schedule.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native English speaker with solid writing, editing, and proofreading skills.
• 3+ years of experience in game localization or a related field with end-to-end involvement in at least one long-term operated title.
• Familiarity with the full localization workflow and tooling: CAT/TMS, terminology management, translation memory, LQA processes, and defect management.
• Strong cultural sensitivity and editorial judgment — not satisfied with literal translation; able to propose better idiomatic rewrites and articulate the rationale.
• Excellent communication and scheduling skills; comfortable working in cross-cultural team environments.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Build and maintain terminology databases, style guides, character voice profiles, naming conventions, and translation memories to ensure consistent style across versions and chapters.
• Review output from internal and external translators, provide specific and actionable revision suggestions, and distill individual judgment into reusable team standards.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Fluent English

Chinese language proficiency

Editorial judgment

Tools

CAT/TMS

Translation memory

LQA tooling

Job description

NetEase Games in Singapore seeks a native English localization expert to lead English adaptations for live games. You’ll collaborate with design, narrative, art, and publishing teams to maintain tone, humor, and voice across all in‑game text and UI.

Responsibilities include building terminology databases, style guides, translation memories, and overseeing QA with translators to ensure consistent quality on schedule.