Portuguese Gaming Localization Linguist (Portugal) Porto

Portuguese Gaming Localization Linguist (Portugal)
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

As a trusted global transformation partner, Welocalize accelerates the global business journey by enabling brands and companies to reach, engage, and grow international audiences. Welocalize delivers multilingual content transformation services in translation, localization, and adaptation for over 250 languages with a growing network of over 400, 000
- country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers
- quality training data transformation solutions for NLP-enabled machine learning by blending technology and human intelligence to collect, annotate, and evaluate all content types. Our team works across locations in North America, Europe, and Asia serving our global clients in the markets that matter to them. www.welocalize.com

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

OVERVIEW

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent linguists with deep knowledge of gaming and
- related content to join our Gaming Localization team. You’ll help shape engaging
- app content and user experiences that resonate with Portuguese-speaking audiences in Portugal across genres and platforms.

You’ll translate and adapt a variety of
- related content into
- level Portuguese bringing an authentic tone and voice to our client's global gaming platform. This is more than localization—it’s storytelling for a
- savvy audience.

Project Details:

Language Pair: English (US)> Portuguese(PT)

Task Type: Translation, Transcreation, Copy Editing

Volume: 2–5 hours/day (5 days/week)

Tools: Client tools

Workload: Daily/Weekly availability preferred

Assessment: Translation + Gaming/Creative task via attached test

• Translate and
  - edit
  - related content with precision and creativity.
• Adapt tone, style, and structure to reflect gaming culture, trends, and idiomatic usage in Portuguese (Portugal).
• Collaborate with our assessment team to complete brief testing in our platform (linguistic + creative tasks).
• Maintain brand consistency and linguistic accuracy across UI, banners, promotional assets, and
  - game text.
• Provide feedback or suggestions for improving content relevance and user engagement.

• Experience in gaming, apps, or creative localization.
• Strong familiarity with gaming terminology, trends, genres, and cultural context.
• Excellent command of Portuguese (Portugal) and deep cultural fluency.
• Comfortable using CAT tools and adapting content to multiple platforms.
• Degree in linguistics, translation, or journalism. Creative writing background preferred.

• Published work on gaming platforms like IGN, Polygon, Kotaku, Eurogamer, or similar.
• Experience working with gaming or
  - related services.
• A flair for adapting voice and style to Gen Z or
  - savvy audiences.

If this project sounds like something you'd be interested to be involved in, please forward us your updated resume in English.

Job Reference: #LI-JC1