Italian Games Linguist

Keywords is an international technical services provider to the global games industry. Established in 1998 in Dublin and now with operations in 13 studios across 10 countries, it provides integrated services for localisation, testing, audio, art creation and customer support in over 40 languages and 12 game platforms to the world’s largest games publishers and developers. http://www.keywordsstudios.com/

The Games Linguist position will be based at Keywords International Limited HQ in South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a team focusing on community and in game content for a leading social games publisher.

The role is to translate and trans create from English into Italian player support, community and in game content for mobile games. The linguist may also test the games in their native language.

This role requires excellent language skills, creativity and a passion for Games.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Translate/trans create player support, community and in game content from English to Italian to a high quality standard.
• Perform Quality Assurance tasks in Game.
• Be responsible for all linguistic aspects of the translations you are assigned to ensure the best possible quality is achieved.
• Suggest process improvements that will deliver on goal of optimal translation quality.
• Collaborate with linguists in other languages on cross group Quality objectives.

Requirements

• Native level Italian speaker.
• Passion for games industry.
• Educational qualification in linguistics.
• Experience in translation, copywriting or linguistics.
• Excellent verbal and written linguistic skills both in Italian and English.
• Must be self-motivated and able to operate in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills.

Benefits

Our employees are our most valuable resource; therefore we provide them with a competitive compensation package commensurate with skills and experience, excellent benefits, high level of job satisfaction and a casual and fun work environment.