Japan Hybrid Employment

WGSN is hiring a Japanese Language Specialist

Requirements

  • Must be a native Japanese speaker with an exceptional command of Japanese and English research, reading and writing – skilled in transcreating and localisation editing from English to Japanese.
  • Prior experience with machine translation API such as DeepL, Google, Amazon, Bing and post-editing.
  • Prioritise and organise tasks under tight deadlines while demonstrating attention to detail.
  • Comfortable with flexible work hours and working across regions and time zones, and collaborating virtually with teams and freelancers.
  • Self-starter and proactive communicator who is passionate about sharing knowledge and connecting with people and ideas.

Nice to Have

  • Technical skills: usage proficiency in Apple computer and Google tools, including a basic understanding of data analytics, is desired.

Benefits

  • An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.
  • Inclusive workforce: We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.
  • Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.
  • We have a truly flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile-working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been - and will continue to be - actively encouraged here. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Additional Information

  • Our mission is to bridge markets through crafting intuitive, user-friendly localized content that drives engagement across every touchpoint. We empower WGSN to establish credible voices globally, ensuring content connects authentically, while maintaining brand integrity and honoring cultural nuances. Enable Market Growth: By removing language and cultural barriers, we open doors to new markets and strengthen presence in existing ones. Build Trust: We safeguard and elevate brand equity that establish genuine connections with audiences, capture cultural subtleties, and creates distinctive product differentiation. Drive Engagement: We ensure consistent brand messaging while allowing for necessary cultural adaptation, calibrate content that reflects local realities, generating higher engagement and conversion rates.
Required Skills
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WGSN

The world’s leading trend forecaster

WGSN is the world’s leading consumer trend forecaster, helping brands stay ahead of the curve in a fast-changing world. Our accurate forecasts provide global trend insights, expertly curated data and industry expertise to help our clients understand consumer behaviour and lifestyles, develop the right products at the right time and trade effectively.

Founded in 1998, WGSN set out to help businesses anticipate change – not just react to it. Today, through constant innovation, significant investment in AI and data, and building a global forecasting team, WGSN has become the world’s most respected trend forecaster. More than 6,500 companies trust us to get it right, including 53 of the world’s 100 largest brands.

Our methodology combines extensive proprietary and third-party data, internal frameworks, and expert analysis to deliver actionable forecasts across fashion, beauty, interiors, food & drink, consumer tech, and sports & outdoor industries.

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Posted 6 months ago