Position Summary
As a new team member of 33 USA Inc., you will take on the role of Bilingual Marketing Assistant. This role supports day-to-day execution across PR, social media, advertising, and events, while facilitating bilingual communication and documentation for internal and external stakeholders in entertainment-focused campaigns. Collaboration spans Los Angeles and Tokyo to ground deliverables in local culture and fan insights for truly cross-border promotions.
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.
A number of programs cover all employees in the manner prescribed by law. Additionally, 33 USA Inc. provides several Company-designated benefit programs.
Typical office work environment conditions. May be asked to work on evenings and weekends as necessary.