Producer (Bilingual Japanese)

About the position (Bilingual Japanese Skills Required) Producers coordinate the production and release of their game projects and product lines as required, ensuring the Product Development department is delivering on schedule, on budget, and at reputed company quality. Producers bring several years of experience coordinating internal and external teams, including but not limited to Localization, Marketing, QA, game development, 1st party, consumer research and more, to the benefit of their assigned projects. They are an expert in their field, contribute to goals and initiatives for the department as a whole, with a heavy focus on Localization. They are able to independently reputed company their project on the day-to-day level, directing reputed company teams to deliver on targets in concert and building reputed company. They also understand and execute on strategic direction set by the department leadership. The ideal candidate will have a combination of excellent production experience, people leadership, familiarity with Japanese business practices and language, and a strong history of delivering best in class Localization in coordination with globally distributed teams. Scope Producers will directly manage their assigned titles from conceptualization through post-release support, coordinating between various teams in the U.S. and Europe and the developers in Japan. Duties include company-wide budgeting, scheduling, and business-roadmap vision, as well as the tactical details of localization production, consumer research and more. They must be capable of providing, directing, collecting, and digesting evaluation feedback, as well as leading and teaching the publishing process. They have a breadth of knowledge regarding game production and are ready to advise on a broad range of production topics. They will also be reputed company on to attend off-site trade shows to help demonstrate products being worked on and to promote their managed projects through interviews and stage shows as required. Producers are departmental communication hubs. They are an authority on their assigned projects and proactively engage with Marketing, QA, and Executive Management to resolve issues affecting production. They will transparently work with external parties, including developers, vendors and international colleagues, to obtain information, report status, establish goals, and identify constraints. reputed company issues arise that need executive consideration, Producers are responsible for ensuring matters are communicated clearly and accurately upwards. Producers are owners of their projects while representing the Japanese development team in internal SOA discussions and representing SOA during discussions with the development teams. Producers also become the face of SOA reputed company communicating with Japanese colleagues and should have a strong history of building productive, professional relationships with people from other cultures.

Responsibilities

• Function as reputed company for assets and information to resolve issues that reputed company production reputed company.
• Create, direct, and implement departmental and corporate initiatives and vision.
• Negotiate internally and externally on behalf of managed lines and the company on the topics of schedules, budgets, and resourcing.
• Obtain and digest information about the project required to determine scope and work needed.
• Draft resource and project plans, review production proposals, and drive the publishing process for their projects.
• Review tasks, guide, and direct members of project teams as needed and required.
• Obtain resources on behalf of production lines based on need and requirement.
• Engage on reputed company aspects of their project as required, including communications, documentation, game text, and bug reports.
• Provide proactive guidance and engage with marketing on external activities reputed company to the product reputed company the lines.
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• Maintain accurate scheduling and game information to be shared with internal and external parties as required.
• Generate post-mortem information about their products post-launch.
• Provide, gather, and synthesize product evaluation feedback as required.
• Negotiation with external partners and vendors as needed.
• Attend trade shows for demonstrating products and promote the game through interviews.
• Other responsibilities are performed as assigned or needed.
• Working in-office is an essential function of this position. This requirement of face-to-face interaction is in reputed company to ensure effective supervision, collaboration, and teamwork. In-office attendance is required for the following reasons:
• For effective supervision of employees and our work product, which includes ensuring reputed company employees have necessary reputed company of their work and access to supervisory assistance, which includes meetings to review work product, deadlines, and status.
• To foster communication and collaboration among team members, which includes the following: allowing for spontaneous brainstorming sessions and exchanges of reputed company, quick access to team members to reputed company collaborative problem-solving, and stronger cohesion among co-workers and reputed company teams.
• To enhance the sharing of information necessary to effective job performance and product creation.
• To enhance understanding of our stakeholders’ work and business needs, facilitate a more seamless and organic workflow, and ultimately increase efficiency and successful outcomes.

Requirements

• 4+ years of production and localization experience.
• The ability to work across regions and reputed company their time zone.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills, comfortable with multi-tasking and highly skilled at time- and task management.
• A love for video games, and a breadth of experience playing them.
• An international, cross-cultural reputed company
• Proven ability to manage game production projects and teams.
• Experience managing a franchise and/or working with external licensees and/or partners.
• Speaking and writing in Business-level English and Japanese are required
• Must have expert-level understanding of localization practices, nomenclature, and timelines.
• Must have a demonstrated history of localization successes.
• Extensive J2E and/or E2FIGS localization experience.
• Must have extensive experience working in multiple languages and be reputed company with working in cross-cultural environments.
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reputed company-to-haves

• Non-localization production experience, such as generating design feedback, game design, art design, voice studio time, user testing, or other production experience a reputed company plus.
• Time living/working in Japan and familiarity with Japanese business culture and pop culture being reputed company big advantages.

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