Translate and adapt gaming-related content into German, ensuring accuracy and creativity while engaging a German-speaking audience and collaborating for brand consistency.
As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400,000 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
OVERVIEW
MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB
Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent linguists with deep knowledge of gaming and app-related content to join our Gaming Localization team. You’ll help shape engaging in-app content and user experiences that resonate with German-speaking audiences in Germany across genres and platforms.
You’ll translate and adapt a variety of gaming-related content into native-level German bringing an authentic tone and voice to our client's global gaming platform. This is more than localization—it’s storytelling for a gaming-savvy audience.
Project Details:
Language Pair: English (US) > German (DE)
Task Type: Translation, Transcreation, Copy Editing
Volume: 2–5 hours/day (5 days/week)
Tools: Client tools
Workload: Daily/Weekly availability preferred
Assessment: Translation + Gaming/Creative task via attached test
MAIN DUTIES
- Translate and post-edit gaming-related content with precision and creativity.
- Adapt tone, style, and structure to reflect gaming culture, trends, and idiomatic usage in German (Germany).
- Collaborate with our assessment team to complete brief testing in our platform (linguistic + creative tasks).
- Maintain brand consistency and linguistic accuracy across UI, banners, promotional assets, and in-game text.
- Provide feedback or suggestions for improving content relevance and user engagement.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Experience in gaming, apps, or creative localization.
- Strong familiarity with gaming terminology, trends, genres, and cultural context.
- Excellent command of German (Germany) and deep cultural fluency.
- Comfortable using CAT tools and adapting content to multiple platforms.
- Degree in linguistics, translation, or journalism. Creative writing background preferred.
BONUS IF YOU HAVE:
- Published work on gaming platforms like IGN, Polygon, Kotaku, Eurogamer, or similar.
- Experience working with gaming or app-related services.
- A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z or gaming-savvy audiences.
If this project sounds like something you'd be interested to be involved in, please forward us your updated resume in English.
Job Reference: #LI-JC1
Top Skills
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