Date: November 2025

TEAM: Localization Team

LOCATION: Any location within Europe

ROLE PURPOSE

The Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of game localization projects for several accounts. This Team has specific duties, and at the same time is part of the core organizational structure.

The prime purpose of this role is to provide professional PM capability so that the localization projects are planned, resourced and driven to a successful conclusion. The PM is the main point of contact for any questions on the status of the project and provides the expertise to plan what is needed to achieve the objectives and to manage the delivery.

SCOPE OF ROLE

• Reports to: Production Lead
• Staff reporting to this post: External translators’ team
  
  

Key Responsibilities

The PM operates in concert with the localization team to tackle all day-to-day localization needs. Will be tasked with a variety of localization projects, text, voice over and multimedia, including the localization of in-game assets for online computer game, as well as various content for other websites, promotions, etc. directed at the player community.

• Establish and manage comprehensive project plans, taking into consideration deadlines, dependencies, available resources, and overall costs to ensure smooth and timely execution.
• Drive the project to a regular beat: monitor activity, manage adherence to plan and resolving obstacles to delivery, while supporting colleagues and collaborators.
• Put the project controls in place: planning, resources, risks management, finances, interdependencies, scope…
• Provide regular status reports that support effective decision making with the project.
• Set up and maintain the repository of documentation and reference materials.
• Implement best practices and procedures in project management within the project and contribute to the continuous improvement of the project management toolkit.
• Coordinate and schedule LQA tasks within the internal team, ensuring timelines and priorities are clearly communicated.
  
  

Skills

• DELIVERING RESULTS:
• Maintains a broad strategic perspective at the same time as an awareness of the detail.
• Creates and applies measures and metrics to track performance.
• Holds the team accountable for achieving results.
• At project level, demonstrates financial awareness and a concern for cost effectiveness.
• DEVELOPING SELF AND OTHERS:
• Gives regular constructive feedback to others.
• Identifies clear development needs.
• Plans through regular constructive reviews of their own performance (and their team’s where appropriate).
• Creates space for others to learn and provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments when people are ready for them.
• Coaches others to learn from their experiences on the job and to use the resources available to them.
• APPLYING TECHNICAL AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE:
• Makes decisions based on professional expertise and experience without deferring unnecessarily to others.
• Shares knowledge and best practice on technical solutions so that others can make best use of that expertise.
• Actively seeks new ways to develop the application of technical and professional standards within the team.
• WORKING EFFECTIVELY WITH OTHERS:
• Enables people from a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives to contribute to positive outcomes.
• Breaks down silo working and challenges behaviours that are not collaborative.
• Recognises when trust is broken and seeks to resolve conflict and re-establish trust.
• PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING
• Gathers the right information and uses critical thinking to make effective and timely decisions.
• Knows when to involve others in a decision.
• Demonstrates awareness of the wider external influences that impact on decision making.
• Simplifies processes and procedures wherever possible.
  

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Translation, Linguistics or Communication fields (other backgrounds will also be considered).

Essential

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• A track record of successfully managing translation projects in the localization industry
• Spanish native speaker
• Above average Spanish skills
• Comprehensive English skills
• Knowledge of localization project practices and standards
• Excellent proficiency of Microsoft Office applications
• Working experience with CAT tools, specially memoQ
• Experience of reporting on projects
• Analytical and problem-solving skills, and capacity to work collaboratively to deliver effective solutions to project related issues
• Organisational awareness and ability to understand sensitivities within a complex multi-stakeholder structure; and think creatively and strategically to overcome obstacles to cooperation and progress.
• Process/workflow analysis skills
• Cultural awareness and experience of delivering projects
  
  

Desirable

• Background in linguistics or language studies
• Passionate about videogames
• Videogames industry experience
• Basic proficiency of Brazilian Portuguese
• Project Management training
  
  

Equal opportunities

Sound Map is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusiveness. We value a diverse workforce in which people from different backgrounds and lifestyles can work together and create an inclusive culture and a forward-thinking environment.