Bilingual Marketing Assistant (Japanese and English)

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.

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.