Japanese Marketing intern
Location: Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
About Soundbrenner
Soundbrenner builds the world’s first wearable smart device for musicians. It’s the metronome of the 21st century. Wearable, smart and powered by vibrations. Soundbrenner combines hardware products with mobile and desktop apps into a holistic solution that empowers musicians to achieve true mastery of rhythm.
We’re headquartered in Hong Kong and hold an additional office in Berlin. We currently employ a full-time staff of 11. To date we sold and shipped over 20,000 units. We’ve raised close to $2 million USD in funding from investors. We were featured in the New York Times, Techcrunch, Gizmodo and around a dozen of other international press outlets.
Job Summary
You would take the lead and spearhead our first local marketing approach for the Japanese market. This is a unique opportunity where you could end up driving our entire marketing organization for Japan.
We’re looking for a ‘doer’ – someone who is able to manage their time effectively and works well under pressure. You’ll be someone who loves learning about new things, but you will also receive dedicated training and support from experienced marketers. The ideal person will have an understanding of what it’s like to work in a startup. You’ll approach tasks in a logical manner, and be comfortable doing everything from analyzing data, running ads, optimizing to maybe even some coding and designing.
Key Responsibilities:
· Drive our Japanese marketing efforts (Japan is our second most important market)
· Conduct research and create our entire local Japanese copywriting.
· Work directly with a high-tempo growth/marketing team and owning the metrics affecting online/offline sales - running experiments and testing is what you love to do
· Use Google Adwords, Facebook and other platforms to deploy campaigns
· Responsible for day-to-day management and optimization of paid advertising campaigns
· Partly responsible for growing affiliate scheme
· Report on a daily, weekly and monthly basis on campaign and channel performance, providing recommendations and learnings.
What we’re looking for:
• Fluent in Japanese (preferably mother tongue)
• Experience is not a criterion, if you are good enough, you’re good enough.
• Great communicator & team player. Quick learner. Gets shit done.
• Strong commercial instincts. Analytical thinker, data & metrics driven.
• Excited and curious about tech and digital
What it’s like working at Soundbrenner
• You will work with very talented people in an intense work environment. As a result, you will experience one of the steepest possible learning curves and have the chance to grow in rapid speed together with the company. It will be quite fast paced and a hella lot of fun.
• If you are like us you have a passion for great design, technology, and hardware. At Soundbrenner you get the chance to make this passion your job. Working for a hardware company you get to witness the miracles of making something out of nothing and holding your own product in your hand. What could be more exciting?
• At Soundbrenner we value justice and we value fairness. If you are capable of adding a lot of value to the company, you will be compensated accordingly. That’s why we are more than happy to offer you company equity as part of your pay. All you need to worry about is doing what you love to do: A great job.
• The work we do at Soundbrenner has the potential to touch the lives of every single musician on the planet. If we are successful your work may influence an entire industry for the better. We love music and working on something that matters inspires us to give our best every single day.
You understand that your ideas have the potential to change the world? You don’t just dream to get something done - you are willing to take the first steps with all its consequences? Then you might fit right in.
Please send your application to jobs (at) soundbrenner.com.
Per Delden
Director Sales & Marketing at Soundbrenner Limited
Soundbrenner Limited
Floor 15, Workington Tower
78-80 Bonham Strand
Sheung Wan, Hong Kong
www.soundbrenner.com