About 2K

Founded in 2005, 2K develops and publishes interactive entertainment globally for console systems, handheld gaming systems and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets, which are delivered through physical retail, digital download, online platforms and cloud streaming services. 2K publishes titles in today’s most popular gaming genres, including shooters, action, role-playing, strategy, sports, casual, and family entertainment.

The 2K label has some of the most talented development studios in the world today, including Firaxis Games, Visual Concepts, Hangar 13 and Cat Daddy Games. 2K’s stable of high quality titles includes the critically acclaimed BioShock®, Borderlands™ and XCOM® franchises, the beloved Sid Meier’s Civilization series, the popular WWE 2K franchise and NBA 2K, the #1 rated and #1 selling basketball franchise*. 2K is headquartered in Novato, California and is a wholly owned label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO). For more information, please visit www.2K.com.

What We Need:

The successful candidate has a strong passion for game localization and will assist the team in quality management when localizing English games to Japanese. She/he will also review and process bug reports from Asian linguistic testing and be able to proactively provide feedback for quality improvement.

Job Responsibilities:

Review deliverables in Japanese and provide feedback for improvement
Play game builds in Japanese and provide feedback for improvement
Attend VO recording sessions and provide creative direction when required
Support communication with local vendors in Japan and build a good relationship with them
Support the team for age rating submission (CERO) and asset creations
Review language bugs and apply the fix accordingly
Small translation task from English to Japanese
Help Loc manager in various misc. task for localization

Who We Think Will Be a Great Fit:

Creative writing skill in Japanese essential
Can communicate in English both verbally and written essential
Familiar with gaming device (PC, Console)
Experience as game translators or game LQA testers
Creative management experience in VO recording, script writing/rewiring is appreciated
Experience in schedule keeping. Deeper project management skill/experience is appreciated
General video game knowledge
Familiar with MS Word and Excel

Key to success in this role:

Being well-organized
Being proactive
Communication skill. Being good at reporting things in simple and effective ways
Interest to videogames and the industry