English and Japanese Localisation/Interpretation for PR

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Tokyo
Junior
Artificial Intelligence
The Role
The role involves localising and translating content between English and Japanese for Appier's PR and Corporate Communications Team. Responsibilities include translating global releases, internal reporting materials, and managing social media posts, ensuring accuracy and cultural appropriateness in communications for a global AI company.
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About Appier

Appier is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe, and the U.S. and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

Since our entrance to Japanese Market in 2014, we were successfully partnered with some of the major logos in Advertising, Digital Contents, EC, Financial Service and Consumer products, that made us to transfer from the Japan Growth market to Prime segment just one year and nine months after our IPO in 2021.

What you’ll do

Responsibilities:

  • Localisation and translation of Japanese ↔️ English (e.g., global releases, internal and external reporting materials, briefings to C-levels, website and areas related to corporate branding and communications, media articles, etc.)  for  the PR/ Corporate Communications Team in a global AI company
  • Creating posts on social platforms related to PRs.
  • Simple consecutive interpretation for in-house meetings (mainly one-on-one meetings)

Required skills and experience:

  • English and Japanese (sensitive to language and cultural nuances, able to understand the gaps and translate them into correct Japanese).
  • Translation (at least 3 years): experience in translation and localisation or certification in the field.
  • Experience working with multinational teams.
  • Timeline management and progress tracking: ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.

The kind of person we are looking for:

  • Attention to detail: Able to work thoroughly in correct Japanese without overlooking linguistic nuances and cultural differences and to ensure that the content is free of errors or misleading expressions. The ability to write straightforward sentences while avoiding crass expressions in official documents.
  • Possesses strong technology knowledge: Enable accurate communication of complex technical concepts in a culturally appropriate and easy-to-understand manner.
  • Flexibility and autonomous problem-solving skills: Must adapt to language trends in the new AI market and be flexible to change work priorities and progress/change projects even when unexpected problems or challenges in the public relations area arise.
  • Culturally sensitive: Not just a language translator but someone who has a deep understanding of the cultural values and customs of the target content and the ability to adapt Japanese content accordingly.

Desired skills and experiences:

  • Experience, knowledge, and interest in the AI or SaaS industry.
  • An English TOEIC score of 900 or above is desirable.
  • Experience studying or working outside Japan.
  • Degree or related work experience in linguistics, translation studies, international relations, computer science, etc

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
642 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Appier is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

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