[Hiring] Language Expert, Brazilian Portuguese @Blizzard Entertainment

Role Description

Blizzard Entertainment is looking for a talented Language Expert (Brazilian Portuguese) to support the localization of our games, products, and services. As the Language Expert, you will own the quality, consistency, and creative integrity of Brazilian Portuguese across player‑facing experiences. You bring strong linguistic judgment, deep cultural awareness, and a passion for the craft of localization, ensuring our voice, tone, and intent resonate authentically with Brazilian Portuguese‑speaking players.

In this role, you will serve as the primary owner for Brazilian Portuguese localization, reviewing and validating localized content to ensure it is accurate, culturally appropriate, and safe for release. This includes identifying and addressing potential historical, political, or social sensitivities relevant to Brazil. You are a trusted partner to global and regional stakeholders and are comfortable balancing creative ownership with autonomy in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment.

You will also contribute to ongoing efforts to improve localization quality, workflows, and tooling, including participating in initiatives that explore new technologies and automation to support efficiency and scale.

Note: This is a temporary position for a 10-month period. This is a fully remote position within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Own Brazilian Portuguese (ptBR) language decisions and ensure creative cohesion end‑to‑end.
• Serve as the vision holder for in‑game and out‑of‑game localized content, directing and reviewing assets to ensure a high‑quality player experience.
• Provide clear, professional linguistic feedback and recommendations to external vendors and internal localization partners to uphold Blizzard quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with the Global Localization team and cross‑functional stakeholders on initiatives that improve player engagement, quality, and efficiency.
• Contribute to defining the creative direction, terminology, and linguistic standards of localized products and services.
• Coordinate with internal partners to ensure localization quality expectations are consistently met.
• Identify, track, and address localization quality issues, including cultural, historical, political, or social sensitivities relevant to Brazil, working with vendors to resolve them through guidance and process improvements.
• Participate in additional cross‑functional projects as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional localization experience.
• Excellent Brazilian Portuguese and English linguistic skills, with strong grammar and orthography expertise in Brazilian Portuguese.
• Experience reviewing localized content and providing clear, professional linguistic feedback.
• Strong knowledge of localization‑specific and translation tools (e.g., memoQ, CAT tools).
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast‑paced, deadline‑driven environment.
• Able to work effectively in a multicultural team with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated interest in exploring and leveraging new technologies and solutions to improve localization workflows.

Bonus Points

• Passion for video games, heroic fantasy, sci‑fi worlds, or pop culture.
• Experience working as a translator in the entertainment industry.
• Familiarity with Blizzard Entertainment games.
• Experience with game localization or game quality assurance.
• Higher education in linguistics or a related language discipline.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance.
• 401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching.
• Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave.
• Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others.
• If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance.