Team Lead French (f/m), Berlin

Kabam is the leader in the western world for free-to-play games for traditional players with first and third party published titles. Kabam games are available on mobile devices via its own dedicated channel in the Apple App Store, Google Play, Amazon Appstore, and on the Web via Facebook, Yahoo, Kabam.com and other platforms. Kabam is the fastest growing Internet media company in the San Francisco Bay Area and the 17th fastest growing company overall in the U.S., according to Deloitte LLP. Kabam's 2013 revenues exceeded $360 million, a 100 percent increase over 2012. The company is valued at more than $1 billion, profitable, cash-flow positive, and has created four titles that have grossed more than $100 million each in their life.
Kabam's Kingdoms of Camelot franchise has grossed more than $250 million in less than four years, making it one of the top 10 strategy franchises of all time. In 2012, Kabam Publishing was launched to provide third-party developers access to Kabam's technology platform, distribution channels, data analytics and best practices that Kabam's in-house development teams use to bring wildly successful games to players worldwide. Kabam has 800 employees around the world, with corporate headquarters in San Francisco. The company's investors include Alibaba, Canaan Partners, Google, MGM, Intel, Pinnacle Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, Warner Brothers and others. More information about Kabam can be found at www.kabam.com.

Kabam is looking for a full-time Translation Team Lead for French. You will be based in our Berlin office but will be part of a global Localization team located in our Beijing, Seoul and San Francisco offices. Your work will have direct impact on Kabam's worldwide success by ensuring AAA quality of our games to our worldwide audience.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Lead and train an internal and external Translation Team to localize our games for the French speaking audience
• Translate, edit, proofread game scripts, tutorials and various consumer facing documentation and promotional marketing materials including advertising copy
• Ensure a high level of quality for the localized version of the game by conducting frequent linguistic quality assurance for our games
• Collaborate with the development, operations and localization teams to resolve all text and localization issues
• Lead the French Localization team to work with the development and marketing teams to ensure that our games are contextually and culturally French player appropriate and appealing as well as linguistically accurate
• Create French Terminology and Localization Style Guide as well as Localization Asset Archive for every game

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Native French speaker with excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Impeccable French spelling and grammar
• Proficiency in English
• A degree in translation, localization or linguistics
• Minimum 1~2 years experience in managing direct reports, demonstrated people management skills
• Minimum 4 years experience in translating, editing and proofreading content in French
• General knowledge of video game terminology for English and respective language fluency; ability to adopt use of language to different game genres and themes
• Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office products as well as good general computer skills
• Strong creative writing and copy writing/editing ability
• Avid gamer with a solid understanding of free-to-play games, mobile games and game genres such as strategy, RPG, action and racing
• Superior attention to detail
• Prior experience in video game or consumer entertainment product localization in French
• Good team player with proven ability to lead a team; experience working in a multi-cultural and global team is a plus
• Ability to multi-task and deal with tight deadlines and time pressure