Careers at J-Global
Be a part of something big
Every day, people at J-Global are working to change business cultures to help Japan’s businesses globalize successfully. Our growing team – representing 10 nationalities and counting – thrives in a dynamic, fast-moving, intercultural environment.
We believe inclusion, collaboration, agility and a growth mindset are the key to a rewarding work environment. If you think so too, and are seeking professional growth, inspiration and excitement, join us. Let’s move ahead together.
Careers at J-Global
Be a part of something big
Every day, people at J-Global are working to change business cultures to help Japan’s businesses globalize successfully. Our growing team – representing 10 nationalities and counting – thrives in a dynamic, fast-moving, intercultural environment.
We believe inclusion, collaboration, agility and a growth mindset are the key to a rewarding work environment. If you think so too, and are seeking professional growth, inspiration and excitement, join us. Let’s move ahead together.
Open Positions
Employment
Digital Learning Consultant Position
Global HR Consultant
Marketing Associate
Senior Sales Developer JP
Internships
Consulting and Advisory Intern
Working at J-Global
Work Style
When and where to work is up to you! At J-Global we respect each individual’s working style and work-life balance. We have been practicing a flexible working style from the beginning of our company to ensure that each member of our team can choose their most productive working time and environment.
Life at J-Global
J-Globalites enjoy an open, varied working environment. Most of us work in more than one role, taking up new projects and responsibilities as the changing work landscape demands. We’re flexible and fast, and we don’t have time for a lot of formality and bureaucracy. The J-Global team is full of interesting people with a broad range of skills, experience and backgrounds. Working alongside them, you’ll have countless opportunities to grow and learn and to make a positive and meaningful impact on the world.
Life at J-Global
J-Globalites enjoy an open, varied working environment. Most of us work in more than one role, taking up new projects and responsibilities as the changing work landscape demands. We’re flexible and fast, and we don’t have time for a lot of formality and bureaucracy. The J-Global team is full of interesting people with a broad range of skills, experience and backgrounds. Working alongside them, you’ll have countless opportunities to grow and learn and to make a positive and meaningful impact on the world.
J-Global Academy
Are you thinking about joining consultancy world and want to develop your skills? Join our J-Global Academy. Regardless of your working experience, we can help you to grow and learn professional consultancy skills through workshops, peer-learning and hands-on client experience.
Open Positions
Employment
Digital Learning Consultant Position
J-Global K.K. is looking for a Consultant to support our team at various clients. In close cooperation with the assigned Consulting Director, you will join different projects at strategic clients that focus on Digital Learning Systems for corporate training, helping devise long term strategies as well as operational improvements.
Your main tasks are:
- Coordinate deliverables and schedules with project owners and client’s representatives
- Produce planned deliverables as assigned, on schedule and to the client’s satisfaction
- Overseeing project management for selected projects
- Ensure product quality and quality checking process
Working conditions:
We encourage flexible working styles to suit individual needs and interests, as well as the creation of an open, positive work environment. You are in the best position to decide the working conditions in which you are the most productive, granted that availability agreed with clients is ensured. If you are looking for a very flexible position utilizing your specialized skills, this is the job for you!
Working Time:
- 20 hours / Week, Development to full-time possible
- Weekends and Public Holidays Off
Required skills:
- Excellent organizational, project and time management, analytical and problem-solving skills
- High interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment
- Ability to operate autonomously & proactively
- Familiar with the learning industry, e-learning industry
- Experience with Learning Management Systems (LMS) as well as Learning Contents Management Systems (LCMS)
- Good experience with MS Office, particularly Powerpoint and Excel
- University degree in a related field desirable
- Professional English is a must, professional Japanese a plus
Job details
Job Title
Digital Learning Consultant Position
Career area
Digital Learning
Location
Tokyo Japan
Global HR consultant (Associate Consultant)
J-Global K.K. is looking for a reliable and impeccably organized part-time bilingual Global HR Consultant. The ideal candidate should be highly self-motivated and able to conduct themselves professionally in both international and Japanese working environment. We are looking for a flexible and agile individual with previous working experience in a similar role. It is a promising position with various career and personal growth possibilities.
Working conditions:
J-Global strongly believes that the individual is in the best position to decide the working conditions in which they are the most productive. Thus, we offer flexible working conditions which allows the employee to customize on their own terms:
Working Time:
2-4 days a Week (Weekends, Public Holidays Off).
Tasks and Roles:
You will work directly under the supervision of the Account Manager:
Work on a project basis with our current clients:
You will be a team member in one of our Global HR consulting teams managing our clients in Japan. Our clients have operations globally. Job responsibilities include:
- Working with an Account manager on client’s requests
- Working with the client at the client’s office
- Facilitating Client’s meetings with overseas HR teams
- Make reports from the meetings
- Working with regional HR & Project leaders
- Assisting in creating integrated HR strategy
- Drafting and Preparing an action plan proposal
- Helping the client to Organize HR Seminars together with other team members
- Work with J-Global Training manager in delegating work between trainers and the client
Core Competencies & Skills Required:
- Cross-cultural skills
- Teamwork & collaboration skills
- Autonomy
- Interpersonal skills
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, in English and Japanese
- Agile and flexible
- Growth mindset
- Customer-oriented
- Goal-driven
We’d love to see:
- Previous experience in HRM
- Project management experience
- Fluent in English and Japanese language (N2)
Job details
Job Title
Global HR consultant (Associate Consultant)
Career area
human resources
Location
Part-Time position without VISA sponsorship.
Senior Sales Developer JP
JOB PURPOSE / SUMMARY
J-Global is looking for a Senior Business Developer to lead our sales effort and help boost our financial growth. This is an exciting opportunity to create action plans and sales strategies that will help us reach our growth initiatives — including new customer acquisition and client optimization.
Here at J-Global, we’re proud to service clients from different industries providing a unique transformative facilitation framework. We value team work, flexibility, growth mindset, diversity and customer focus.
We allow our employees to work in the conditions that fit them best, you can either work from home or from our office in Tokyo and adapt your working schedule as we promote a flexible work style.
Apply today if this sounds like the work environment and position for you!
What you will do:
- Help us formulate our overall sales strategy.
- Identify and research potential clients.
- Do lead generation from medium and large corporations.
- Develop and maintain client relationships.
- Coordinate with sales teams to develop mutually beneficial proposals.
- Negotiate contract terms with clients and communicate with stakeholders.
- Monitor project teams to ensure contracts are executed as agreed.
- Gather useful information from customer and competitor data.
- Make and give presentations to prospective clients and internal executives.
- Update the CRM software to optimize sales opportunities.
Who you are:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in business management or related discipline.
- Demonstrated ability in business-to-business (B2B) sales, 10 years or more in the consulting, learning and training industries.
- Experience in workplace solutions, human capital, organizational transformation, employee engagement or a related field is an advantage.
- A target driven and proven self-starter with ability to deliver on initiatives without constant supervision.
- Key stakeholder management capabilities.
- Capable to handle the entire sales process from needs detection to closing.
- Impeccable verbal and written communication skills in Japanese (Native Mandatory).
- Fluency in English is a big plus.
- Familiarity with project management methodologies.
- Familiarity with the industry including consulting, training, e-learning, learning management systems.
- Problem-solving skills to propose mutually beneficial solutions.
- Proficiency with word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software.
- Experience using CRM, preferably Hubspot.
- Ability and willingness to travel for meetings with prospective and existing clients if necessary.
Marketing Associate
We are looking for a bright, proactive communicator to support us in our mission of helping Japanese companies to globalize.The Marketing Associate will assist the Marketing Director with marketing strategy, planning and implementation across all media and customer touchpoints.
Main areas of responsibility:
- Planning and producing sales-support communications, including online presentations, videos, emails, etc.
- Planning and producing corporate communications such as website, corporate brochures, and videos, etc.
- Managing company social media outreach.
- Managing PR activity through an external PR agency.
- Planning and implementing product launch marketing.
- Planning and managing the production of thought leadership content.
Desired Skills:
- Native level Japanese Speaking & Writing
- Intermediate understanding level of English Speaking & Writing
- Knowledge of Online and Social media marketing and advertising
- Strong command over Microsoft office software
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment
Open Positions
Internships
Consulting and Advisory Intern
Are you interested in the fusion of Japan’s team-based working style with fast-paced, global business practices? Would you like to gain working experience in both small, agile startups and large Japanese organizations? Are you flexible and want to work on major projects? If so, an internship at J-Global in Tokyo might be just the opportunity for you! J-Global is a small startup. As such, we prefer our interns to be flexible, supportive, and continually desiring to broaden their experiences.
Compensation:
Unpaid (Approved Expenses Reimbursed)
Internship Period (3-6 months):
3-6 months
Working Time:
Core time (Monday-Friday 9:30-17:30)
※ If candidate is a local student, we can accomodate part-time commitment (2~3 Days/Week).
Tasks and Roles:
J-Global is always looking for variously skilled interns who are willing to take on multiple support roles in the company. Possible roles for interns include, but are not limited to the following:
IT Support:
- Internal IT Support (Website/Email Server/E-Learning Platform Support and Maintenance)
- LMS-related Research and Maintenance
- IT System Optimization for Micro-learning Delivery
- Client-related IT Support and Maintenance
Advisory and Consulting Support
- Day-to-day Support of Managers and Senior Consultants
- L&D Project Support (Bench-marking Research, Data Analysis, Checking/Formatting of Reports and Presentations)
Event Management:
- Organizational Support for J-Global Seminars and Events
- Planning and Participation of Intercultural Learning Events
- Communication and Coordination with Participants/Organizers via Email
Sales and Marketing Coordination
- Customer Care and Coordination of Global Business Consulting Services
- Participation in Client Sales Meetings
- Maintenance of J-Global CRM System
- Development of Client Portfolio
- Brainstorming of New and Innovative Marketing Measures
- Strengthening of J-Global Social Media Marketing
- Translation and Editing of Sales Kits, Program Presentations, etc.
Interactive Director
- Assist UI/UX (User-Interface/User-Experience) Design of Learning Systems
- Implementation of Learning Content as SCORM package
- Plan/Execute Demonstration of Learning Systems to Clients
Requirements:
- Fluent in English
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Excellent time-management and organizational skills
- Proactive and out-of-the-box thinker
Visa Sponsorship:
J-Global can sponsor “Cultural Activity” visas for the candidate, if the candidate is not a Japanese national/not already in possession of a Visa which permits unpaid activity in Japan.
Requirements for Visa Sponsorship for non-Japanese Nationals:
- Applicant must be enrolled as a student for the entire period of the internship.
- Internship is (ideally) part of the applicant’s school curriculum and this can be proven with official documentation from the institution.
If the intern does not meet the aforementioned conditions, JGlobal cannot sponsor the visa but can accept other visa types (e.g. working holiday, dependent, etc.).
To apply for this position, please submit the following:
- Cover Letter
- CV
- Note specifying desired period of internship, and whether Visa Sponsorship is necessary.
Job details
Job Title
Consulting and Advisory Intern
Career area
Marketing
Location
Tokyo Japan