Localization Design Lead
WHAT YOU WILL BE WORKING ON
What you will focus on
The Localization Team Lead is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations, quality, delivery, and performance of the digital Assets Localization Team, including both 2D and Video. This role ensures the successful localization, adaptation, and delivery of promotional assets across multiple markets while driving team development, process improvements, and operational excellence.
What it means on a daily basis
- Lead and manage the Marketing Assets Localization Team, including 2D Localization Artists and Video Localization Artists.
- Plan, prioritize, assign, and monitor incoming localization requests to ensure timely and high-quality delivery.
- Oversee the localization, adaptation, resizing, and revision of digital assets, example: store screenshots, welcome screens, in-app assets, user acquisition (UA) creatives, cross-promo materials, trailers, app previews, packaging, and other promotional assets.
- Act as the primary point of contact between the Localization Team and internal stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and alignment of priorities.
- Conduct quality assurance reviews of localized assets before delivery to ensure adherence to brand, localization, and creative standards.
- Ensure projects are completed on schedule and meet established quality, accuracy, and performance expectations.
- Provide leadership, coaching, mentorship, and technical guidance to team members, supporting their professional growth and development.
- Manage team performance, attendance, onboarding, goal setting, feedback, and employee engagement initiatives.
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, implement automation, and optimize localization production processes.
- Develop, maintain, and update team documentation, guidelines, best practices, reports, and performance metrics.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support localization strategies and ensure smooth project execution.
- Support resource planning and workload balancing across the team.
- Perform hands-on localization work when required due to business priorities, workload fluctuations, or urgent deadlines.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
What success will look like
- Ensure the team consistently delivers localization projects on time and in alignment with business priorities.
- Maintain efficient and scalable localization workflows across both 2D and video production.
- Foster high team engagement, retention, and performance.
- Drive continuous improvement through process optimization and automation initiatives.
- Build strong stakeholder satisfaction and confidence in localization delivery.
- Maintain up-to-date documentation and ensure adherence to localization standards and best practices.
- Achieve department KPIs related to quality, delivery, productivity, and operational efficiency.
- Maintain high-quality localized assets with minimal revisions and rework.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
- Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Creative Multimedia, Fine Arts, Communications, or a related field preferred.
- Proven experience leading creative, localization, production, or design teams.
- Strong understanding of localization workflows for marketing and promotional assets.
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, After Effects, and Premiere Pro.
- Strong understanding of design principles, typography, composition, layout, and visual communication.
- Experience working with both static and video asset localization.
- Experience developing processes, documentation, and workflow improvements.
WHO YOU ARE
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to quality.
- Strong organizational, planning, prioritization, and project management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects, stakeholders, and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and people management skills.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while fostering a collaborative team environment.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and solution-oriented.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
Benefits
- A hybrid working model with 2 days working from home every week.
- A range of well-being events and policies to support employees physically, mentally, and emotionally.
- Various training packages, including internal training, training sponsorship, and e-learning platforms (iLearn, Udemy, O'Reilly,...).
- Opportunities to collaborate and train with Gameloft worldwide experts and develop yourself.
- An attractive monthly salary alongside Tet and other performance bonuses.
- Minimum 12 days of paid annual leave, plus 5 days of paid sick leave, Christmas leave, Birthday leave, CSR leave,...
- 100% coverage of mandatory insurance plus private healthcare insurance.
- A monthly allowance to support lunch meals and working-from-home electricity and Internet bills.
- Relocation support for international candidates joining from overseas.
Life at Gameloft
- A collaborative workplace environment, with over 15+ nationalities, where hundreds of world-renowned game titles were born.
- An open-space office, a canteen, a billiard table, a ping-pong table, and a foosball table.
- A gaming room equipped with mutiple devices (PS, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, arcade machine,...).
- A capable and encouraging team of professionals focused on creating compelling video games.
- A global company where you can meet great people around the world.
- A fun place to work in the heart of the city.
How to proceed
Ready to level up your career? Apply now and help us create the next great game!
Please note:
To ensure a fair and compliant recruitment process under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please submit your application through the official job posting, preferably via Gameloft website, Gameloft or Gameloft Vietnam LinkedIn pages, or SmartRecruiters. Applications sent via email or LinkedIn messages will not be considered.
Due to the high volume of applications, only candidates whose profiles most closely match the role needs will be contacted by our recruiters. We sincerely appreciate your understanding and interest.
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