As part of the Fever Originals team, you will use data and insights to create one-of-a-kind events and experiences that allow people to have unforgettable moments. 

About the Role (Japanese Version Below) :

We are looking for an experienced, passionate, and detail-oriented Producer to join the Fever Originals team. You will take responsibility for the end-to-end production of complex live entertainment experiences involving the construction of permanent or semi-permanent physical spaces, ensuring they are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality standards.

This role spans technical production, creative development, budgeting, process management, and leadership, and requires strong adaptability, problem-solving skills, and the ability to balance speed and quality.
You will serve as the main production point of contact across a wide portfolio of projects, coordinating technical teams, business leaders, our partners and external vendors, while leading processes that guarantee exceptional experiences for our audiences.

The role will be based in Tokyo and the company will sponsor the stay of the freelancer in Tokyo. This is a freelance role. 

Project Management

• Oversee all phases of production—from initial concept development through on-site execution and post-event wrap-up.
• Interpret creative briefs, site layouts, and project requirements to ensure feasibility and alignment with company goals.
• Validate site logistics and operational needs through planning sessions, venue scouting, and site visits.
• Coordinate cross-department collaboration across creative, operations, technical, and vendor teams.

Process & Documentation

• Create and maintain comprehensive production documentation, timelines, and handover materials.
• Develop and track schedules, milestones, and deliverables using project management tools.
• Support consistent communication flow and version control for all project documentation.

Budgeting & Financial Management

• Build, manage, and reconcile production budgets from feasibility through final delivery.
• Track project spending and identify opportunities for optimization or cost savings.
• Oversee contracts, vendor negotiations, purchase orders, and invoice processing.
• Assist with closing out event P&Ls and financial reporting.

Leadership & Communication

• Lead team and client meetings, capturing action items and ensuring accountability.
• Present confidently to senior stakeholders, clients, and partners.
• Translate complex production challenges into practical, solution-oriented recommendations.
• Support and mentor production coordinators or junior staff as needed.

Soft Skills

• Demonstrate adaptability, composure, and creative problem-solving under pressure.
• Promote teamwork, collaboration, and positive communication across departments.
• Take ownership of large, multi-stakeholder projects from planning through delivery.
• Maintain strong relationships with vendors, venues, and clients through professionalism and reliability.

About You:

You thrive in a fast-paced environment and pride yourself on your flexible, detailed, analytical mindset. Candidates need to be passionate about the entertainment/events industry. You will have to be comfortable delivering results in an ambiguous environment, being exceptionally detail-oriented while looking around corners, and thinking bigger about how we create a compelling experience. 

• 5+ years of experience in the event production industry
• Fluency in English and Japanese
• Proven track record of managing complex projects with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of production logistics, scheduling, and vendor coordination.
• Experience negotiating and managing contracts and budgets.
• Excellent organizational and time-management skills; proficiency with project management tools (e.g., Asana, Smartsheet, Gantt charts).
• Strong interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ambition to grow into larger production management or leadership roles.

You can expect to join a group of diverse, hardworking team players, where a cultural fit is someone willing to stay humble and learn and can work nimbly. We welcome applications with unusual backgrounds with the expectation that the applicant will have acquired hard or soft skills and maturity throughout their experiences.

Benefits & Perks: 

• Attractive compensation package consisting of base salary and the potential to earn a significant bonus for top performance.
• Opportunity to have a real impact in a high-growth global category leader
• Responsibility from day one and professional and personal growth
• Great work environment with a young, international team of talented people to work with!

Our Hiring Process:

• A 30 min video call with one of our Talent Acquisition Managers, to better understand your career plan, assess cultural fit, and answer any questions you may have
• A 45 min video call with your future manager, including questions about your profile and a business case presentation (to be prepared in advance)

On average our process lasts 20 working days and offers usually follow within a week.

ポジション概要

Fever Originalsチームでは、経験豊富で情熱的かつ細部にこだわるプロデューサーを募集しています。
本ポジションでは、常設または半常設の物理空間の構築を伴う複雑なライブエンターテインメント体験のエンドツーエンドの制作を担当し、納期・予算・品質のすべてにおいて最高水準での実現を担っていただきます。

本職種は、テクニカルプロダクション、クリエイティブ開発、予算管理、プロセスマネジメント、チームリーダーシップにまたがる役割であり、高い適応力、課題解決力、スピードと品質のバランスを取る能力が求められます。

また、複数プロジェクトにおける制作の主要窓口として、技術チーム、ビジネス責任者、パートナー、外部ベンダーとの連携を行い、観客に卓越した体験を提供するためのプロセスをリードしていただきます。

職務内容

プロジェクトマネジメント

• コンセプト開発から現場での実行、イベント終了後の振り返りまで、制作の全フェーズを統括
• クリエイティブブリーフ、会場レイアウト、プロジェクト要件を理解・解釈し、実現可能性と会社目標との整合性を担保
• プランニングセッション、会場視察、現地確認を通じて、会場運営および物流要件を検証
• クリエイティブ、オペレーション、技術、ベンダー各チーム間の連携を調整

プロセス管理・ドキュメンテーション

• 包括的な制作ドキュメント、スケジュール、引き継ぎ資料の作成および管理
• プロジェクト管理ツールを活用し、スケジュール、マイルストーン、成果物を策定・管理
• ドキュメントのバージョン管理および円滑な情報共有を推進

予算管理・財務管理

• 実現可能性検討から最終納品まで、制作予算の策定・管理・精算を実施
• プロジェクト支出を追跡し、コスト最適化や削減機会を特定
• 契約管理、ベンダー交渉、発注書作成、請求書処理を統括
• イベントの損益計算（P&L）および財務レポーティングの締め処理をサポート

リーダーシップ・コミュニケーション

• チームおよびクライアントとの会議をリードし、アクション項目を明確化し進行管理を徹底
• 経営層、クライアント、パートナーに対して自信を持ってプレゼンテーションを実施
• 複雑な制作課題を実行可能な解決策として整理・提案
• 必要に応じて制作コーディネーターやジュニアスタッフの指導・育成

ソフトスキル

• プレッシャー下でも柔軟性・冷静さ・創造的な問題解決力を発揮
• チームワークと部門横断の協働、ポジティブなコミュニケーションを促進
• 多様なステークホルダーが関与する大型プロジェクトを計画から納品まで主体的に推進
• ベンダー、会場、クライアントとの信頼関係をプロフェッショナリズムと高い信頼性で維持

応募資格

• イベント制作、ライブエンターテインメント、メディア、または体験型マーケティング分野での実務経験5年以上
• 複数の業務ストリームおよびステークホルダーが関与する複雑なプロジェクトのマネジメント実績
• 制作ロジスティクス、スケジューリング、ベンダー管理に関する深い理解
• 契約交渉および予算管理の実務経験
• 優れた組織力およびタイムマネジメント能力、プロジェクト管理ツール（Asana、Smartsheet、ガントチャート等）の使用経験
• 高い対人能力、プレゼンテーション能力、コミュニケーション能力
• 英語および日本語：ネイティブまたはビジネスレベル
• 将来的により大規模な制作管理やリーダーシップポジションへ成長する意欲

福利厚生・待遇

• 魅力的な報酬パッケージ
• 急成長中のグローバル市場リーダー企業において大きな影響力を発揮できる機会
• ハイブリッド勤務および在宅勤務に対応
• 入社初日から裁量を持ち、キャリア成長の機会が豊富
• 多様で国際的な活気ある職場環境

#LI-Hybrid

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

👩‍💻The role

We are looking for a Business Development Manager - Japan to join our APAC Business Team. Reporting to the Regional General Manager - APAC and MENA, you will play a pivotal role in driving our commercial success and market expansion in Japan. This role offers an exciting opportunity to shape Headout's growth in one of the most dynamic travel markets in the world. As the face and voice of Headout in Japan, you will collaborate with supply partners and travel experience providers to strengthen relationships, expand our offerings, and deliver exceptional value to our customers.

🤩What makes this role special?

• Build. You’ll have your fingerprints all over Headout. You’ll do whatever it takes to launch quickly, get 1% better every day, and scale something completely new. This means everything from high-level strategy to nitty-gritty operational details - Launch new cities by identifying, reaching-out and onboarding new Supply Partners & distribution-side partnerships in Japan.
• Nurture. Continuously nurture relationships with our existing Supply Partners in order to leverage them for additional growth.
• Collaborate. Liaise between internal stakeholders (Operations, Tech, Marketing, etc.) and your accounts in order to ensure smooth execution of the partnerships and growth of bookings.
• Analyze. Identify market trends and provide market & competitor analysis to optimize business strategies.

💝What skills & experience do you need?

• Language Proficiency: Fluency in Japanese and English, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in business development, preferably in consumer tech startups.
• Strong analytical, written, and verbal communications skills.
• Global mindset and comfortable working with people from different cultural backgrounds & time zones.
• A start-up attitude – highly collaborative with an entrepreneurial mindset and not afraid to roll up your sleeves.
• Experience working with a CRM; eager to learn and use new tools.
• Candidates may be based in either Osaka or Tokyo.

➕Bonus

• You have experience scaling sales or business development function in a startup.
• You thrive in fast-changing environments, adjust quickly, and maintain focus when priorities shift.
• You really understand the market’s pulse.