Assistant Manager, Dubbing Creative

Job Description

General Summary:
A great storyteller of dubbing creative and quality control, to ensure localization fits with Company's brand standards, quality, and cultural adaptation across all APAC languages.

Key Responsibilities:
• Creating dubbing briefs to deliver against overall business objectives for the key priority contents.
• Working closely with the Company's dubbing teams to influence the language strategy for the Company's contents.
• Developing linguistic and cultural standards and dubbing guidelines.
• Briefing, and directing vendors to ensure the maximum appeal of the Company's content to local audiences.
• Approving scripts, audio tracks and ensuring the creative and technical quality meets the Company's standards.
• Supervising casting process, provide dubbing studios with casting notes/advice and approve voice talent.
• Managing creative inputs on the dubbing project and helping to supervise such through to execution. To ensure company's properties are successfully implemented in local market through creative dubbing.
• Communicate creative ideas in a clear manner to vendor studios, to make certain that the original creative intent is not lost in translation.
• Advising on the best course of action to the Company regarding localization creative including songs dubbing, casting of celebrities/ known talents dubbing, establishing regular cross international and/or regional collaboration on dubbing for the Company.
• Contacting, managing, and liaising with vendors and operational staff to meet creative goals and deadlines.
• Working with operational staff to ensure that all contracts, invoices and planned dubbing schedule are in place.
• Monitoring the markets for shifting cultural concerns and standards and ensuring the dubbing fits with local broadcast regulations
• Vendors and local resources recruitment, including studios visit and facility approval.
• Support on Budget and Cost calculation (if any freelancers/3rd parties QC apply).
• Team development, management, and planning.
• Supporting the Company's programming department and developing close relationships by working together with the Company's marketing, public relations, and creative services departments to achieve the Company's goals.
• Other services as Company management may require of you from time to time.

Experience required:
• 4-8 years' experience or above in Dubbing Creative field. Experience in project management will be a plus.
• Proficiency is Tamil or Telugu is required
Competencies we are looking for:
• A team player with good relationship management and communication skill.
• Sensitive to project/task deadlines
• Open mind - willing to challenge, adapt to changes and debate issues.
• Willing to learn, lead and experience/knowledge sharing.
Shift Timings:- 9.30 AM to 5.30 PM IST

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-k2k980-216-73-216-189-42 in your application.