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 localization, testing, audio, art creation and customer support in over 40 languages and across 12 game platforms to the world’s largest games publishers and developers.

This position will be based at Keywords International Tokyo in Izumi, Suginami-ku, Tokyo.

After the probation period, the role follows a hybrid model, requiring in-office work three days a week at our office.

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 transcreate from English into Japanese player support, community and in-game content for mobile games.  

The linguist will also be responsible for testing, identifying, and reporting bugs, as well as suggesting fixes to potential bugs related to language, text implementation and user interface (UI) issues.  

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

Duties and Responsibilities

Translate/trans create in game, player support and community content from English to Japanese to a high-quality standard  Perform Quality Assurance tasks in a variety of published content (games, websites, etc.)  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