Senior Localization Manager - London or Spain Based

- Drive AI Integrations: Be a key contributor to MT & AI localization initiatives, helping shape the roadmap and coordinate integration, maintenance, and improvements. - Innovate Workflows: Proactively identify opportunities where new integrations with MT and LLM-based tools, or automation, can improve localization and LQA quality, efficiency, and scalability. - Define Global Standards: Lead initiatives across the team to define, track, and uphold Localization/LQA standards and performance KPIs. - Champion Culturalization: Ensure development practices build in internationalization and a global mindset from the start. - Partner with Game Teams & Own the Localization Pipeline: Promote internationalization best practices, manage schedules, language requirements, project planning, translation and LQA execution, and overall international roadmaps for assigned projects. - Manage Budgets: Establish, maintain, and track localization budgets at project level, escalating overspending trends and implementing action plans to optimize costs. - Drive LQA Strategy & Bug Resolution: Fully own the resolution of localization bugs, tracking linguistic and internationalization issues cross-functionally. - Optimize Resources: Compile and consolidate comprehensive localization material to optimize translation and LQA vendor pre-planning and delivery quality. - Execute Daily Releases: Oversee daily international releases and handle cross-functional tasks with Game Studios and partner teams. - Build Trust: Develop strong, trust-based relationships with game teams, studio leadership, central partners, and translation vendors. - Manage External Partners: Refine vendor processes, align expectations, set KPIs, and closely monitor inbound and outbound quality. - Mentor & Guide: Train and mentor other Producers, guiding diverse teams through the localization journey as a subject matter expert. - Share Insights: Perform market analysis to guide language support and culturalization initiatives, capturing learnings and sharing solutions. - 5+ years in localization production (project, program manager or producer) in a mobile/F2P studio/publishing environment. - Demonstrated experience and strong aptitude for AI and technology-driven localization workflows (e.g., MT, LLMs, automation). - Extensive knowledge of the globalization industry, including localization, internationalization, LQA, and culturalization. - Highly autonomous and solutions-oriented with the ability to manage complex schedules, budgets, and competing priorities. - Outstanding interpersonal and relationship-building skills, able to challenge the status quo, adapt messaging, and collaborate across distributed global teams. - Exceptional capability to extract insights from data, simplify complex problems, and troubleshoot effectively. - Excellent working knowledge of Localization Text CMS and TMS tools, bug tracking software, and expert-level skills in spreadsheet and presentation software.