Portuguese Gaming Localization Linguist (Portugal)

About Welocalize

Welocalize is a trusted global transformation partner that 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 in-country linguistic resources. Driving innovation in language services, Welocalize delivers high-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.

Job Overview

Welocalize is seeking passionate and culturally fluent linguists with deep knowledge of gaming and app-related content to join our Gaming Localization team. You’ll help shape engaging in-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 gaming-related content into native-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 gaming-savvy audience.

Project Details

• Employment Type: Freelance-Remote
• 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

Main Duties

• Translate and post-edit gaming-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 in-game text.
• Provide feedback or suggestions for improving content relevance and user engagement.

Required Skills

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

Bonus Skills

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

Compensation

$28 - $33.30 an hour

If this project sounds like something you'd be interested in, please forward us your updated resume in English. Job Reference: #LI-JC1