Amazon.com Services LLC

Audio / Video / Photography Production, Entertainment and Studio, entertainment

LocalizationExecutive

$85–149k Culver City, California, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Localization Executive at Amazon.com Services LLC. Skills: Localization, Content preparation, Global release. Localize content for launch. Prepare content for distribution”

What You'll Achieve.

Meet global release timetables; Raise bar for customer experience

Industry & Context.

Audio / Video / Photography Production, Entertainment and Studio, entertainment
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshoot rejections; Troubleshoot situations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years subtitling/dubbing workflows, 4+ years asset acquisition/delivery, 4+ years 3P vendor management, 4+ years digital media workflows, 4+ years managing multiple projects

Nice to Have

Educate stakeholders, Earn leadership buy-in, Proven communication skills, Narrative writing ability, Subject Matter Expertise entertainment, Subject Matter Expertise post-production, Subject Matter Expertise localization, Subject Matter Expertise distribution workflows, Familiarity with foreign languages, Experience working across time zones, Familiarity with budget management, Experience with component-based localization, Experience with mastering workflows

What You'll Do.

Localize content for launch

Prepare content for distribution

Navigate challenging situations

Leverage established workflows

Highlight improvements for customer experience

Track series/movies progress

Oversee asset processing

Ensure global release timetables

Update and maintain schedules

Keep stakeholders up-to-date

Manage localization progress

Pursue source materials

Organize assets for distribution

Troubleshoot rejections

Assess customer feedback

Liaise between productions and vendors

Build relationships with vendors

Troubleshoot situations with vendors

Identify trends with vendors

Achieve alignment across vendors

Participate in department initiatives

Contribute to tooling requirements

Contribute to AI requirements

Track localization expenditures

Monitor localization expenditures

Vetting music clearances

Vetting actor contracts

Vetting title clearances

Account for compliance edits

Ensure receipt of source materials

Ensure receipt of target materials

Plan for contingencies

Cascade changes to downstream teams

Oversee Music and Effects audio

Safeguard usable assets

Align assets with legal rights

Maintain production schedules

Maintain global release timelines

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Internal teams; Global vendors; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Stakeholder updates; Narrative writing

Process & Methodology

Schedule management, Project management

Full Job Description

We are currently seeking a highly experienced Localization Executive to help the Global Localization team localize and prepare content for launch and distribution. The Localization Executive will be assigned film and series titles, relying on their best judgment to navigate through challenging situations leveraging defined and established workflows to locate the best path forward. They will field escalations, assist other team members, and seek to capture and articulate trends to highlight improvements for the customer experience. They will 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 3P partners and/or Prime Video (PV) — to ensure global release timetables are met. They must 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. The role will 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. They will build relationships, troubleshoot situations, identify trends, and help 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). This role also has stretch opportunities to participate in department wide initiatives and tiger teams that contribute to tooling and AI requirements, workflow optimizations, maintenance of style/language guidelines. This position will also work with Localization Cost

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