Japanese Localization Specialist, Video Content Services

Job Description

Job summaryCome join the Prime Video team in a role dedicated to scaling an ever increasing Video catalog offered to our customers globally.Prime Video is changing the way people watch movies and TV shows, with over 200,000 titles available on-demand to Kindle, Fire, mobile devices, game consoles, Internet-connected TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top-boxes. Are you excited about launching content on Prime Video and holding key impact on helping our business scale The team s core mission is to receive and ingest content from our partner studios and networks, manage it through the publishing process, and ensure it makes it way to the site on-time and in picture-perfect condition in the format and offers necessary to support our rapidly expanding service. In addition to continuously driving and improving execution of this core mission, you will work closely with cross-functional counterparts in engineering, content acquisition, product management, marketing, finance, post houses, studio partners and executive teams to ensure the operations team and systems are supporting the broader growth, launching new features, developing and growing business opportunities, and enhancing our customer experience.In this role, you will be part of Prime Videos localization program to develop and scale localization capabilities! We are a customer first team and dedicated to bringing the Amazon experience to global audience. We are looking for a highly motivated localization specialist who is excited to create content to entertain a global audience.A successful candidate will have experience to create Japanese Timed Text and Metadata for streaming platforms, customer-focused, team oriented, and will have an ability to deliver results through influence. She or he will have a proven track record on taking on end-to-end ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced and dynamic business environment.Key activities include:
• Creation of Japanese closed captions/ SDH, subtitle, metadata and descriptive audio.
• Lead quality audits to benchmark third party delivered content and perform corrections.
• Contribute to defining product value propositions, advantages, and limitations.
• Driving operational efficiency by continually refining operational processes and influencing Product/engineering teams to enable automation.
Key job responsibilitiesKey job responsibilities
• Create Japanese subtitle, captions/SDH and ensure subtitles translate audio and content events in a way that they conform to Prime Videos style guide, are fluent and natural
• Provide inputs to update Prime Videos style guides so that they continue to raise the bar on customer experience
• Perform full quality checks and complex fix for timed text created by third party content providers
• Work with third party service providers to ensure quality and on-time publishing goals are met
• Conduct training and long term plan for common quality issues
• Provide support for other title parts such as Metadata and Descriptive Audio
• Perform UAT for proprietary software developed in house
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• 2+ Years experience working with large global organizations as a Localization Specialist
• Japanese native speaker or a certified professional
• Ability to understand a variety of Japanese accents
• A passion for media & entertainment and streaming services
• The ability to apply critical thinking and provide analysis while working with creative content
• Detail-oriented, ability to prioritize tasks and take judgment calls to deliver quality against accelerated timelines
• Demonstrated ability to engage with a culturally diverse and global team
• Proficiency in other languages is a plus
• Experience and understanding of digital media and/or digital video supply chain
• Passionate about understanding customers and their behavior in order to drive new feature development
• Preferred work experience in a fast paced online environment
• Proven ability to deliver results and prioritize tasks in a fast-moving, dynamic environment
• Experience managing, getting things done, and communicating relevant results to stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with studios, third party service providers and streaming platforms.
• Meets/exceeds Amazon s leadership requirements for this role
• Meets/exceeds Amazon s functional/technical depth and complexity for this role.

Keyskills :
quality auditsupply chaindigital mediastyle guides