Producer (Bilingual Japanese / English)

Job Summary

Hybrid Work Model
Bilingual Japanese Skills Required

About the Role

Producers coordinate the production and release of game projects and product lines, ensuring the Product Development department delivers on schedule, on budget, and at target quality. They bring years of experience coordinating internal and external teams, including Localization, Marketing, QA, game development, consumer research, and more.

Responsibilities

• Direct and implement departmental and corporate initiatives and vision.
• Negotiate internally and externally on behalf of managed lines and the company on 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 all aspects of their project as required, including communications, documentation, game text, and bug reports.
• Provide proactive guidance and engage with marketing on external activities related to the product within the lines.
• 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.
• Negotiate with external partners and vendors as needed.
• Attend trade shows for demonstrating products and promote the game through interviews.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of production and localization experience.
• The ability to work across regions and outside 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 mindset.
• 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.
• Localization Specialization: Expert-level understanding of localization practices, nomenclature, and timelines. Demonstrated history of localization successes. Extensive J2E and/or E2FIGS localization experience. Extensive experience working in multiple languages and cross-cultural environments. Familiarity with PowerPoint, Excel.