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Scopely

Creates and runs games with ongoing updates

Localization Manager - Pokémon GO

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience in localization program management, international content operations, marketing communications localization, or related disciplines.
  • Experience managing end-to-end localization workflows for multiple languages and markets, including intake, translation or transcreation, review, linguistic quality assurance, approvals, and delivery.
  • Experience supporting consumer-facing communications in a fast-moving environment; experience in mobile gaming, live-service products, entertainment, technology, or another global digital business is desirable.
  • Ability to lead complex cross-functional programs involving global and regional teams, product and marketing stakeholders, creative partners, and external vendors.
  • Knowledge and practical experience in localization quality practices, including linguistic accuracy, terminology management, style guidance, cultural adaptation, and in-context validation.
  • Experience managing localization vendors, freelancers, or language-service partners, including setting expectations, assessing quality, and resolving delivery issues constructively.
  • Hands-on experience using AI-powered tools to improve localization operations, quality assurance, workflow efficiency, or knowledge management, with sound judgment around accuracy, confidentiality, intellectual property, brand standards, and human review.
  • Project management and organizational skills sufficient to manage overlapping launches, identify risks early, and create clarity across dependencies and stakeholders.
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including communicating precise recommendations and influencing decisions without direct authority.
  • Business-level proficiency in both English and Japanese.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end localization program for all player-facing Pokémon GO communications in APAC, defining how work is scoped, prioritized, resourced, routed, reviewed, approved, and delivered across languages and markets.
  • Set and uphold standards for linguistic accuracy, terminology, tone of voice, cultural relevance, brand consistency, and in-context quality, ensuring localized communications convey player value naturally and appropriately in each market.
  • Drive projects from early intake and source-readiness through translation or transcreation, review, linguistic quality assurance, stakeholder approvals, final delivery, and post-launch follow-up; maintain clear ownership, timing, dependencies, and escalation paths.
  • Work with Product Marketing, Product Management, Game Design, Creative Production, Community, Social, Direct Marketing, Communications, Production, and regional teams to plan localization early, clarify requirements, and prepare materials for each market's launch.
  • Apply knowledge of APAC market and language contexts to planning and review; identify when direct translation is insufficient and guide transcreation, adaptation, or market-specific considerations while preserving the global communication's intent.
  • Oversee external localization vendors, linguists, reviewers, and other partners; set briefs and expectations, monitor quality and delivery performance, resolve issues, and help allocate resources across competing priorities.
  • Create and maintain glossaries, style guides, reference materials, workflow documentation, quality assurance processes, and knowledge systems that support consistent, efficient, resilient localization.
  • Establish tracking and reporting for localization status, blockers, missing inputs, unresolved quality issues, owners, and release risks; provide stakeholders with readiness visibility and support timely decisions.
  • Use approved AI capabilities for content analysis, terminology and consistency checks, workflow coordination, quality control, knowledge management, and other high-friction tasks; build repeatable AI-enabled processes while applying judgment around accuracy, confidentiality, intellectual property, brand standards, and human review.
  • Analyze recurring issues, root causes, vendor performance, and stakeholder feedback, and turn findings into process, tooling, and training improvements that reduce avoidable errors and improve quality and speed.
  • Ensure localization follows brand, legal, licensing, and approval requirements; work with internal and external stakeholders to surface risks and maintain standards in a collaborative intellectual-property environment.
  • Contribute to occasional cross-functional operational initiatives in the Tokyo office, including support related to Legal, Procurement, Partnerships, and other business functions as needed.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience working on a mobile, free-to-play, or live-service game with frequent content and event releases.
  • Experience managing localization across multiple APAC languages and markets, including Japan.
  • Experience with a translation management system, computer-assisted translation tools, localization quality assurance tools, or workflow and asset-management platforms.
  • Experience building or scaling glossaries, style guides, linguistic asset libraries, quality frameworks, or knowledge systems that improve consistency and efficiency.
  • Experience building or scaling AI-enabled localization workflows, automation, or quality-control processes that improve team speed, decision quality, or error prevention.
  • Experience working with major entertainment or licensed intellectual property, especially in collaborative approval environments.
  • Understanding of Pokémon GO, its community, and the broader Pokémon franchise.
  • Proficiency in one or more additional APAC languages.

About the Company

Scopely

Creates and runs games with ongoing updates

Scopely develops, publishes and operates video games for players on mobile devices, computers and consoles. Its portfolio includes MONOPOLY GO!, made in partnership with Hasbro, and location-based games such as Pokémon GO, whose teams joined its Scopely Explore business. Game teams add events, social features and content updates so players can keep returning to the same game over time. Many titles are free to start and earn money through optional in-game purchases, supported by the proprietary Playgami platform and shared publishing services across owned and partner studios. Scopely was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Culver City, California.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Acquired
Total funding
$998.8M
Headquarters
Culver City, CA
Founded
2011

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