[Hiring] Japanese-Focused Support Editor @Tofugu, LLC

Role Description

Tofugu is looking to hire a native Japanese-speaking Support Editor to help improve the clarity, accuracy, consistency, and overall quality of WaniKani’s Japanese learning content. This role focuses on handling issues and suggestions contributed by WaniKani learners and team members.

• Contribute to decisions about what changes should — and shouldn’t — be made to existing WaniKani content.
• Create and improve Japanese-only content, including context sentences, collocations, and pronunciation audio, paying careful attention to pitch accent standardized to the 東京式 pitch accent system.
• Collaborate with English-speaking team members to create and improve English content, including translations of Japanese content and explanations of radicals, kanji, and Japanese vocabulary and expressions.
• Participate in decisions about parts of speech labeling and which meanings and readings to assign to kanji and vocabulary, including which answers should be allowed, warned, or blocked.
• Plan and refine WaniKani item level progression, making thoughtful tradeoffs while anticipating how changes affect learning flow, difficulty, and consistency across the system.
• Update and publish content on production using the internal WaniKani admin.

Qualifications

• Native-level proficiency in Japanese with in-depth knowledge of the language.
• Clear and efficient communication in English, especially in writing.
• Ability to engage in nuanced discussions about language use.
• Comfortable collaborating in a remote, async environment.
• Use of creativity, vivid imagery, real-life examples, humor, and irreverence to convey nuanced points in easy-to-understand, conversational language.
• Critical thinking and sound decision-making skills.
• Exceptional research skills with the ability to gather the right information and explain reasoning clearly and concisely.
• Consideration of edge cases and knock-on effects.
• Detail-oriented with an understanding of when something is "good enough."
• Highly autonomous, organized, and able to make steady progress.
• Comfortable digesting detailed documentation independently.
• Willingness to learn new tools as needed, including working with spreadsheets or editing audio files.
• Interest in how people learn and improving learning transfer.
• Strong experience writing and editing in Japanese and, ideally, in English.
• Familiarity with how WaniKani works and experience teaching or creating educational content is ideal but not required.

Requirements

• Job Type: Contractor (up to 20 hours/week)
• Work Hours: Flexible
• Work Location: Remote, worldwide
• Pay: $44.93/hour to $49.43/hour depending on experience

How to Apply

Submit the following in PDF format:

• Your resumé or a resumé-style document summarizing your experience.
• A cover letter-like document explaining why you’re applying, how you’ll measure success, and how you’ll help Tofugu help learners.
• Your completed work challenge.