Bilingual Marketing Assistant (Japanese and English)

Position Summary

Requirements

• Essential Job Functions & Responsibilities:
• Interpretation Duties:
• Consecutive interpretation during internal meetings (e.g., sales meetings, all-hands).
• English-Japanese/Japanese-English interpretation for client meetings and business negotiations.
• Summarization and sharing of key points during meetings.
• Translation Duties:
• Translation of various business documents including service materials, proposals, and reports.
• Handling client communications via email and chat (including Slack).
• Translation and localization of internal documents (e.g., Notion, shared docs).
• Ensuring natural and appropriate expressions, attentive to cultural background and honorifics.
• Communication Support:
• Go beyond simple word-to-word translation by conveying the background and intent of messages.
• Provide “nuanced translation” that accurately reflects tone and emotion in both English and Japanese.
• Respond to internal translation requests and conduct quality checks.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Required:
• Business-level proficiency in both Japanese and English across speaking, reading, and writing for cross-border collaboration, translation, and documentation.
• Strong interest in entertainment/anime and fan culture.
• Proficiency with productivity suites (spreadsheets, slides, email) and strong task ownership with high accuracy and deadline reliability.
• Strong intercultural communication skills and professionalism to operate effectively with multi-office teams and external partners.
• Desired:
• Internship or assistant experience in Social media marketing or PR environments.
• Exposure to ad ops support, social listening, media clipping, and basic performance reporting.
• Event staffing or convention support experience; assistance on influencer/creator projects is advantageous.

Benefits

• A number of programs cover all employees in the manner prescribed by law.
• 33 USA Inc. provides several Company-designated benefit programs.
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)

Schedule

Typical office work environment conditions. May be asked to work on evenings and weekends as necessary.