Amazon · 2 months ago
Senior Localization Executive, Global Localization
Culver City, California, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$84K/yr - $180K/yr
6+ years expAmazon is seeking a highly experienced Senior Localization Executive to join their Global Localization team. The role involves localizing and preparing content for launch and distribution, managing complex projects, and ensuring global release timetables are met while liaising with various stakeholders and vendors.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
Responsibilities
Help the Global Localization team localize and prepare content for launch and distribution
Field escalations, assist other team members, and seek to capture and articulate trends to better improve the creative experience across all titles
Track assigned series and movies production and delivery progress while overseeing the processing of all required assets from third-party production facilities through Amazon’s contracted vendors for end-to-end ownership of localization and preparation for distribution to Theatrical, 3P partners, and/or Prime Video (PV) — to ensure global release timetables are met
Update and maintain various schedules, keep internal and external stakeholders up-to-date throughout production, manage localization progress, pursue source materials, organize assets for final distribution, troubleshoot any upstream or downstream rejections, and assess and act on Customer feedback
Liaise between current productions and third-party localization vendors on work related to the translation/adaptation, casting, recording, and versioning of Amazon MGM Studios Originals content for global release
Build relationships, troubleshoot complex situations, identify trends, and help streamline and achieve alignment across a variety of global vendors as well as internal teams (including Studios Content Services, Programming Strategy, Legal, Business Affairs, Creative, Marketing, Post, and Production)
Participate in department wide initiative and tiger teams and leverage subject matter expertise to contribute to tooling and AI requirements, workflow optimizations, maintenance of style/language guidelines, and serve as educational representation across the organization
Work with Localization Cost Management staff to track and monitor expenditures for all localization related work
Handle a heavily administrative day-to-day while monitoring industry trends and seeking to raise the bar for customer experience
Vet music clearances, actor contracts, IP rights, and title clearances before work commences, and account for edits in Special Compliance Territories that require care and sensitivity
Ensure receipt of source/target materials to maintain schedules and plan for contingencies whilst managing changes that need to be cascaded to downstream teams
Oversee the Music and Effects audio component to safeguard useable assets for foreign dubbing, and that align with legal rights
Maintain production schedules that impact timelines to ensure global release/launch
Qualification
Required
6+ years of comprehensive experience with a variety of centralized Subtitling and Dubbing localization workflows and product types, including complex films or series across multiple regions and languages, and experience working in the local office of a global studio or post-production environment geared toward work with the same
6+ years of comprehensive experience with acquisition and delivery of assets from producing entities to a studio or vendor
6+ years of direct experience with 3P vendor utilization and schedule management from the beginning (greenlight) to end (distribution) of global theatrical films and/or episodic television life cycles
6+ years of direct experience with the creation or improvement of a variety of digital media workflows and asset management
6+ years of documented ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously, under urgent timelines with limited oversight
Preferred
Provide ability to educate stakeholders, earn trust, and obtain leadership buy-in
Proven communication skills and narrative writing ability
Self-motivated to work independently and contribute to cross-functional teams
Subject Matter Expertise in entertainment, post-production, and localization
Subject Matter Expertise across a wide array of distribution workflows and windows
Experience working across time zones with global teams
Familiarity with budget management and reporting
Experience with component-based localization and mastering workflows such as IMF or MMC
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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VP & CTO
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