[Hiring] Senior Writer @Pocket Entertainment Corp

Role Description

As a Senior Writer, you will lead Junior Writers who proofread and refine AI-adapted Spanish scripts. You are both team lead and expert proofreader, holding the final sign-off: only scripts you approve as accurate, natural, and AI-voice friendly go to production. You will also listen to sample episode audio to confirm it matches the approved script. You are accountable for language quality, consistency, and production-readiness across up to six shows, including fixing editorial issues that surface after release. Pocket FM stays in sync with daily technological change, so a SW must have an enthusiastic, receptive, and flexible mindset to adapt to evolving workflows.

A Typical Day

• Spend most of your day with scripts.
• Review scripts that Junior Writers have proofread and localized.
• Catch what slipped through, fix it or send it back with clear notes.
• Listen to sample episodes, work through retakes and listener comments.
• Talk writers through recurring mistakes.
• Pass recurring AI problems to the AI team with examples.

What You'll Do

• Proofreading, Quality Review and Production Sign-Off
  • Review scripts for grammar, spelling, accents, punctuation, register, fluency, and fidelity to the English source.
  • Catch mistranslations, awkward phrasing, dropped lines, tonal drift, wrong emotion tags, and continuity breaks.
  • Make every script AI-voice friendly: correct formatting, clear speaker labels, accurate emotion tags, pacing-guided punctuation, and numbers, abbreviations, and names written for correct pronunciation.
  • Correct scripts directly or send them back with clear notes.
  • Give final sign-off so production receives only approved scripts.
• Leading and Developing Proofreaders
  • Lead Junior Writers, each assigned to individual shows.
  • Track each writer's quality through error rates, types, and rework levels, and share results regularly.
  • Give specific, constructive feedback and help writers see the pattern behind repeated mistakes.
  • Run onboarding, calibration sessions, and refreshers so the team applies the same standards.
  • Build a culture of accuracy, accountability, and learning.
  • Rapidly and effectively reorganize work processes with the Junior Writers.
• Editorial Standards and Style Guidelines
  • Define and maintain proofreading standards, style guides, and QA checklists.
  • Decide regional Spanish usage and tone for each show, and apply it consistently.
  • Record common errors and decisions to keep the team aligned.
  • Resolve edge cases and escalations.
• Show Ownership and Localization Oversight
  • Own editorial quality from pre-editorial planning to post-release review.
  • Approve localization sheets and concept notes, keeping them consistent across episodes and seasons.
  • Protect continuity in character names, relationships, terminology, and plot details.
• Editorial Retakes
  • Own the retake process for editorial issues: script errors, mistranslations, continuity mistakes, wrong emotion tags, and formatting faults.
  • Confirm each request is editorial, identify the root cause, and give clear, corrected instructions.
• User Comments on Editorial Quality
  • Monitor user comments and ratings regularly for script and language feedback.
  • Turn valid feedback into actions: script corrections, updates to localization sheets or style guides, and writer guidance.
  • Pass feedback to the right person, confirm action was taken, and check later comments to see whether fixes worked.
• Working with the AI Team on Editorial Improvements
  • Act as the voice of Spanish editorial with the AI team, logging recurring issues with real examples.
  • Contribute to prompt changes, glossaries, localization rules, and formatting standards.
  • Test new tools, prompts, and workflows on live shows, recommend whether to adopt them, and share changes with Junior Writers.

Qualifications

• Native or near-native Spanish with outstanding grammar, spelling, and editorial judgment.
• Strong English comprehension, to check scripts against the source.
• Proven proofreading, editing, or translation review experience, with stamina for high daily volume.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or coaching proofreaders, editors, or writers.
• An eye for linguistic, contextual, and continuity errors, and the ability to teach others to spot them.
• Bachelor's degree in Literature, Languages, Translation, Creative Writing, Media, Communications, or a related field.
• Ability to analyze user comments and turn recurring issues into clear actions.
• Experience handling quality escalations and finding root causes instead of treating symptoms.
• Ability to give technical or AI teams clear, example-backed feedback.
• Strong organization across multiple shows, teams, and daily deadlines.
• Clear communication, with comfort working with business and cross-functional teams.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with AI writing, translation, or adaptation tools.
• Experience building style guides, QA checklists, or review frameworks.
• Experience tracking error rates, retake rates, or feedback trends.
• Understanding of narrative structure, pacing, and audience engagement.

Why It Matters

AI helps us adapt faster, but human review is what makes a localized story feel natural, emotional, and relevant. You set the standard and build the team that protects it.