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Executive Office / Operations | Senior Specialist (Bilingual)

Here at Playco, we make games that bring the world closer together through play!

Our ideal teammates are thoughtful, low ego, and hardworking professionals who can both zoom into the details and zoom out to embrace the big picture. We are passionate about makers and tinkerers, who are unafraid to experiment with a healthy disregard for constraints. We hope you'll enrich our team with your enthusiasm and passion, both for games and for life.

As the Senior Specialist, you will be part of the Playco Executive Office and Operations team that does a wide range of activities and projects across the whole organization. As the company grows rapidly, many different roles and functions need to be built and filled, and the operations team works as the glue to connect all the pieces together to keep the growth momentum. This role is in a great position to have an overall view of the company, through having the chance to work with all the departments and teams. Often, the CEO and other executives will ask you to work on special projects that are strictly confidential and require strong execution ability to drive the projects with high speed and quality. As Playco has the head office in Tokyo, Japan, and sees Japan as one of the most important markets to penetrate, this candidate must be bilingual in English and Japanese.

This role will provide many potential career opportunities depending on the interest and talents of the candidate. It will be expected that the candidate will fulfill the Operations Specialist role for 12~24 months, during which time they will be expected to build deep relationships with the executives, learn the business inside and out, and find an area of focus for further growth, including Products, Marketing, Corporate Development, Communications, HR / Talents, and Operations.

Responsibilities

• In this role you’ll get to work on a wide range of projects and problem solving across the whole organization. Examples as follow:
• Special projects from the CEO and the executives
• Corporate Development: M&A projects, Investor Relations
• Business Development: Partner management, negotiation
• Communications: Public Relations, Internal communication
• Legal: Contracts and negotiation
• HR & Talent: Hiring and Recruitment
• Facilities: Office environment, IT infrastructure
• New initiatives and ad-hoc projects: e.g. Pilot program for influencer marketing, search for artists and art houses for outsourcing, Product management assistance, etc.
• Speak on behalf of the executive team and lead project management and internal communications on major initiatives across the company.
• Learn the game industry trend and business model and be able to explain it in your own words.
• Be up to date with the tech industry, venture field, business, market, politics, and geopolitics.
• Reduce the risk and cost as much as possible across the company.

Requirements

• Experience working at a top management consulting firm or in the office of a CEO at a fast paced company.
• Strong experience with data analysis and profit modeling.
• Ability to speak and write compellingly on behalf of the executive team.
• Ability to proactively solve complex problems and come up with creative solutions.
• Be able to learn quickly on the job and adapt to new tasks and situations.
• Work well in a team setting, taking and giving feedback in a constructive, tactful, and receptive manner while improving efficiency and effectiveness across teams.
• Must be able to react to time-sensitive matters as well as manage complex, longer-term initiatives. Solid personal organizational skills as well as the ability to support others in managing time and priorities.
• The consistent ability to remain flexible, calm under pressure, and adaptive to change as priorities shift, acting as a model for the organization at large. Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with ambiguity. Comfortable working in an unstructured, high-growth environment.
• Ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information.
• Strong office software skill set (Google suite, Zoom, Slack and etc.), tech-savvy.
• Fluent in English and Japanese.

Bonus

• Business-level proficiency in spoken Korean a huge plus.

Playco is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, disability, genetic information, age, military service, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We believe that our differences are our strength and we know that diversity builds a better team.