Job Summary:

The Localization team is responsible for the localization of all products made outside the USA (APAC, EMEA and LatAM). Localization at Disney encompasses dubbing, subtitling, title treatments, narrative inserts, credits, metadata and artwork.

The Localization Associate is responsible for day-to-day administration of material supply as well as various aspects of localization operations. This person will be a central point of contact for vendors, global Disney offices and international dubbing studios. This job holder will meet negotiated milestone dates for their assigned titles by proactively identifying issues early in production. In addition, this job holder will need to propose solutions to issues and roadblocks that occur during production.

This is a project/ full time supplemental position.

Responsibilities:

• Implement reporting systems, and present information to Manager
• Take ownership of assigned production slate by providing solutions to workflow issues
• Provide timely feedback to Manager on delays or challenges
• Meet deadlines for dubbing work order creation
• Track various assets from order to archive
• Work with internal and external partners to lead the creation and delivery of dubbing credits
• Monitor vendor performance and provide detailed analysis to Manager
• Ensure thorough, accurate, and timely completion of assignments
• Proactively seek out reference materials by contacting various post production companies
• Drive the initiative to ensure that we are using the latest digital delivery technology
• Create structure in a dynamic and rapidly changing (growing) environment
• Supervise all logistics either via physical or digital delivery
• Document feature reference & dubbing operating procedures for outside vendors and internal Production Groups
• Supervise current and historical production schedule records
• Ad hoc projects on request independent of day-to-day Supervisor management
• Organize and store all deliverables and documentation in a manner that facilitates retrieval by others

Project Management Skills:

• Develops estimates, establishes deadlines and delegates tasks for a project
• Ability to track multiple projects at a time
• Monitors tasks and assignments to ensure accurate and timely completion
• Supervises the work of all resources to achieve maximum productivity

Team Work Skills:

• Identifies and shares ideas, innovations and best practices that can benefit others
• Acknowledges and builds on the ideas of others
• Creativity and the passion to challenge current industry standards

Basic Qualifications:

• Prior experience in managing dubbing workflows is a must
• Project management in localization (5+ years)
• Vendor management (5+ years)
• General knowledge of localization workflows in the entertainment industry
• General knowledge of dubbing and scripting creation
• Strong attention to detail; organization, problem-solving, analytical and multitasking skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Project Management tools: smart sheets, google sheets, MS Office
• Communications tools: slack, telegram

Required Education

• High School Diploma or equivalent

Preferred Education

• Bachelor Degree or equivalent years of experience

This role is considered hybrid, which means the employee will work a portion of their time on-site from a Company designated location and the remainder of their time remotely.