Performance Marketer, Japan (client-facing) - Amazon Ads

performance marketer, based in Japan, starting now. The person a client talks to week to week, with a path to full-time by the end of the year if it's a fit.

RATE — Around AUD$50/hour (about ¥5,600), reviewed as things grow

COMMITMENT — Freelance now, path to full-time by the end of 2026 LOCATION — Based in Japan, Tokyo preferred. Remote day to day

START — As soon as you can. We're onboarding now

We're a fast-growing Australian agency that runs Amazon and TikTok Shop for global consumer brands, and we're expanding into Japan.

What the role is

• The main point of contact for the clients on your book, week to week
• Running the weekly client call in Japanese, and everything around it
• Turning campaign results into updates a non-marketer can follow
• Telling us what the client actually said, so the work gets sharper
• Working with our strategy and delivery team, not around them
• Freelance and light to begin with, growing as your book does

You'd suit this if

• You've run paid campaigns somewhere: Amazon, Google, or Meta
• You can explain performance marketing without the jargon
• Japanese is your working language with clients, English with us
• You've sat in front of clients before and held your own

What it isn't

• A strategy role. You won't be writing the media plans
• Full-time yet, or a fixed 20 hours a week to start
• A big agency. You'll work directly with me
• Amazon-only. Google or Meta experience carries over fine
• A translation job. You'll work in Japanese, but the job is the client relationship

How it works from here

A call with me, in English. Then a short paid task on real anonymised data, which you walk us through in Japanese the way you would with a client. About two hours, and we pay for it.

Requirements

• You've run paid campaigns somewhere. Amazon, Google, or Meta all count
• You can read performance data and explain what it means to someone who isn't a marketer
• Japanese good enough to hold a client relationship, including how you'd write to a client's marketing manager
• English good enough to work with an Australian team
• You're in Japan, ideally Tokyo, and can meet in person now and then
• You can start more or less straight away
• Some overlap with Australian hours for team calls

Nice to have, not needed: Amazon Ads on amazon.co.jp, Vendor Central, TikTok Shop, or other Japanese marketplaces.

Benefits

• You'll work directly with the founder, not through layers
• Freelance now, with a real path to full-time by the end of 2026 as the Japan book grows
• A team behind you doing the campaign work and the analysis, so you lead on the client
• Remote day to day, with occasional in-person in Tokyo
• Modern tools: ClickUp, Slack, Google Workspace