Your duties will include:

• Translation & Expertise: Translate the majority of the games' content into Japanese, and become the expert on the titles' tone, style, and terminology.
• Linguistic Gatekeeping: Proofread all Japanese texts to a world-class standard, ensuring total consistency across the project.
• Asset Ownership: Create and continually improve glossaries, manage terminology and create guidelines for Japanese.
• On-site Collaboration: Work at the client's office to provide immediate linguistic guidance and feedback.
• Quality Assurance: Perform and oversee Quality Assurance tasks, taking full responsibility for the final linguistic polish of the assignments, including fixing bugs reported by the testing teams.
• Process Improvement: Suggest workflow enhancements to help the client achieve optimal translation quality and efficiency.

Requirements:

• Native-level Japanese proficiency.
• Location & Schedule: This role is based in Montreal.
• Initial Period: The first 3 months will be full-time (5 days a week) at the client's office to ensure you are fully integrated with the team and workflows.
• Hybrid Schedule: After the first 3 months, the role transitions to 2 days in-office and 3 days from home.
• Professional Experience: Proven experience as a Japanese Linguist, ideally within the video games industry.
• Experience working with CAT Tools, ideally MemoQ.
• Educational Background: Degree in Linguistics, Literature, or a related field.
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in both Japanese and English.
• Gaming Passion: Deep familiarity with the interactive entertainment space and a passion for gaming.
• Self-Motivation: Able to operate autonomously as the sole language expert in a fast-paced environment.
• Work Authorization: Must be legally eligible to work in Canada.

Benefits:

• 2 weeks of vacation per year
• 5 personal paid days per year
• STM public transit discount
• Telus Health virtual care service
• Dialogue (Employee Assistance Program)
• Office perks, including free soft drinks, coffee, fruits, ice cream, and more
• Pathway to becoming a full-time permanent employee upon successful completion of the one-year fixed-term period

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