Manage overseas licensing for manga content by coordinating new-business sales, publisher proposals, permission documents, contract checks, and supervision of translated publications and promotional items.
About this role
This contract position is responsible for linguistic quality assurance (LQA) for games including the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series, helping deliver localized game content to customers worldwide. It works with internal and external stakeholders in Japan and overseas and collaborates with localization project managers across projects.
Responsibilities include analyzing defects from an LQA perspective, visualizing quality risks, and proposing improvements to development and translation teams. The specialist selects, evaluates, and manages the performance of external LQA vendors and conducts quality reviews. The role also develops LQA quality standards and guidelines, deploys and operates them internally, and designs and drives a PDCA-based quality improvement cycle before and after release.
Further duties include optimizing reliance on external parties, accumulating and standardizing knowledge, and coordinating related departments and external partners to improve localization QA quality. The position covers multiple projects rather than only checking an individual title, including cross-project standardization and workflow design. The posting states that the LQA structure and processes are being renewed, and the role participates in designing the LQA function itself.
Required qualifications include at least five years of practical experience in localization or game QA, including LQA; lead experience in LQA or localization quality management; experience defining quality standards and planning and implementing improvement measures; and experience directing or managing the quality of external vendors. Candidates must have communication skills at Japanese native level and English business level or above, with TOEIC 800 or above given as a guideline. They should understand analysis and improvement of localization or text-quality issues, have quality management experience in a multilingual environment, and have coordinated work with external vendors or related departments. PC skills using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are also required.
Experience across multiple projects or teams, interest in Japanese games, anime, comics, or light novels, and study abroad, overseas business, or experience working with people from other countries are listed as desirable. The work location is Shinjuku, Tokyo, and the employment type is contract.
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