Deluxe Media Hiring for Captioner Job at Remote Full Time

Captioner

• Previous captioning experience
• Can be fully remote or office based (Macquarie Park, NSW)
• Roster, including one weekend per month

• Transcribe dialogue for English closed captions and subtitles for the hard of hearing in a one-step process to create a final deliverable
• Fact-check and verify key names and phrases, ensuring consistency and accuracy
• Perform full linguistic QCs of transcribed English subtitles and closed captions
• Work with global subtitling teams to ensure client expectations for quality and on-time delivery are met
• Provide constructive feedback to English editors
• Support root cause analysis for English quality issues
• Testing and debugging of proprietary software

• Bachelor of Arts degree in English, Translation, Creative Writing or relevant equivalent experience
• 1-2 years of experience transcribing or QCing English subtitles and captions
• Outstanding English language skills
• Exceptional audio sensitivity – ability to understand a variety of English accents, including regional accents from the US, UK, Australia, and other English-speaking regions
• A passion for global cinema and television
• The ability to exercise critical thinking and analysis while working with creative content
• Detail-oriented, ability to prioritize tasks and make sound judgment calls while working under deadline
• Well-rounded knowledge of historical and contemporary events, cultural references, slang, idiom
• The ability to identify risks and effectively communicate them
• The ability to engage with a culturally diverse, distributed team
• Mastery of Microsoft Office or Google Suite
• Background in audiovisual and film production an asset