Business-level proficiency in 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, including spreadsheets, slides, and email.
Strong task ownership, accuracy, and deadline reliability.
Intercultural communication skills and professionalism to work effectively with multi-office teams and external partners.
Responsibilities
Provide consecutive interpretation during internal meetings, including sales meetings and all-hands.
Interpret between English and Japanese during client meetings and business negotiations.
Summarize and share key points during meetings.
Translate business documents, including service materials, proposals, and reports.
Handle client communications via email and chat, including Slack.
Translate and localize internal documents, including Notion and shared documents.
Ensure translations use natural and appropriate expressions and account for cultural background and honorifics.
Convey the background and intent of messages beyond word-for-word translation.
Provide nuanced translations that accurately reflect tone and emotion in English and Japanese.
Respond to internal translation requests and conduct quality checks.
Support day-to-day execution across public relations, social media, advertising, and events.
Facilitate bilingual communication and documentation for internal and external stakeholders in entertainment-focused campaigns.
Desired Qualifications
Internship or assistant experience in social media marketing or public relations environments.
Exposure to advertising operations support, social listening, media clipping, and basic performance reporting.
Event staffing or convention support experience.
Experience assisting with influencer or creator projects is advantageous.
Bilingual Marketing Assistant (Japanese and English)
33 USA Inc. · Los Angeles, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-09-04
Salary: USD 45,000–70,000
Workplace: hybrid
Department: Marketing Div
Description
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.
Benefits
A number of programs cover all employees in the manner prescribed by law. Additionally, 33 USA Inc. provides several Company-designated benefit programs.
Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
Typical office work environment conditions. May be asked to work on evenings and weekends as necessary.