Localization Producer
Location: Hybrid in Culver City, CA (onsite Tues - Thurs)
Duration: 5 months to start
Pay: up to $59.00/hour, DOE (W2 and benefit options)
Planet Interactive is looking for a Localization Producer to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 5-month contract. This role will work 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Culver City, CA.
Localization Producer Responsibilities:
- Coordinate localization projects with vendors, localization team staff, as well as marketing, legal, and other departments company-wide
- Handle project management from concept level to go-live
- Work cross-functionally with marketing teams, video services, external vendors, localization team staff, design and other teams to ensure that projects are completed under the required deadlines and maintain industry-leading standards of quality
- Oversee end to end localization workflow in a creative environment
- Plan for & manage localization projects and requirements across internal and external teams; scope, planning, and task tracking
- Manage international copy and assets for store, marketing and social campaigns
- Represent the team in marketing meetings, contribute to project kick offs & meetings with cross-functional teams for planning and will prepare and present presentations
- Identify and communicate innovative solutions to streamline workflows and processes
- Work autonomously with minimal supervision and manage aggressive deadlines in a fast-paced environment
Localization Producer Qualifications:
- 5+ years of prior localization project management experience, working on projects that involve language launches, internet, marketing and/or media localization
- Degree in localization, international studies, journalism, or media studies.
- Validated localization project manager with strong attention to detail in a demanding and dynamic environment
- Previous experience leading localization projects across multiple cross-functional teams, including international
- Knowledge of online marketing, international marketing copy and the global marketplace
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize urgent issues and deal with large volumes of copy and assets in up to 40 languages simultaneously
- Proactive planner, who is forward thinking, well organized, and has an obsession for details
- Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion to improve existing infrastructure, tools and technologies
- A high degree of cultural sensitivity and experience working with teams across the globe
- Working knowledge of industry standard localization tools
- Linguistic expertise in at least one language preferred
- Comfort and competence working on the Mac platform and iOS
