About NCSOFT America
NCSOFT America is seeking an Executive Interpreter to support clear, accurate, and confidential communication between Korean- and English-speaking stakeholders. This role will primarily focus on real-time interpretation in executive meetings and business-critical discussions, while also supporting translation and light project coordination needs across the organization as needed.
Position Overview
The executive interpreter will participate directly in executive meetings and business-critical discussions to provide real-time Korean-English interpretation, ensuring that tone, intent, context, and nuance are accurately conveyed. This role requires strong business acumen, sound judgment, and the ability to support confidential internal discussions that inform business decisions. The primary focus of the position is to enable clear, effective, and immediate communication during live executive and cross-functional meetings, rather than serving as a primarily written translation role. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working in a fast-paced gaming environment, understanding gaming terminology and business context, and bring experience supporting executive-level interpretation.
Responsibilities
- Provide accurate, timely, and context-aware Korean-English interpretation during executive meetings, business reviews, strategic discussions, and other stakeholder communications.
- Support simultaneous or near-simultaneous interpretation for sensitive, confidential, and business-critical conversations with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.
- Help Korean- and English-speaking stakeholders understand not only the language, but also the business implications, decision points, risks, priorities, and cultural nuance behind the discussion.
- Translate written materials as needed, including meeting notes, presentations, emails, internal documents, follow-up items, and other business communications.
- Assist leadership, cross-functional teams, and multiple stakeholders with interpretation and translation needs across both formal and informal settings.
- Accurately interpret gaming-related terminology, product discussions, development concepts, publishing topics, localization, live operations, monetization, operational updates, and cultural nuance.
- Capture, clarify, and summarize key meeting takeaways, decisions, action items, and follow-ups when needed.
- Provide light project coordination or PM support, including scheduling assistance, action item tracking, follow-up coordination, and team alignment support.
- Help bridge communication between Korean- and English-speaking teams by ensuring tone, intent, context, and business meaning are clearly conveyed.
Qualifications
- Fluency in Korean and English, with strong verbal communication, listening, and comprehension skills in both languages.
- Experience providing live interpretation in business meetings, executive discussions, cross-functional meetings, or similar professional settings; executive interpretation or translation experience is strongly preferred.
- Ability to provide simultaneous or near-simultaneous interpretation with accuracy, composure, and awareness of business context.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to understand how discussions, terminology, priorities, and decisions connect to broader business objectives.
- Ability to interpret sensitive, confidential, and high-context conversations accurately while maintaining discretion and professionalism.
- Strong written translation skills, with attention to accuracy, tone, context, terminology, and audience.
- Strong understanding of the gaming industry, including product, development, publishing, localization, live operations, player experience, and business concepts; deeper game knowledge is highly preferred.
- Ability to support multiple stakeholders and manage shifting priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Salary Range: $100,000 – $120,000 annually, depending on executive interpretation experience, gaming industry knowledge, and overall qualifications.
