Join Us!
We are always looking for design, development, and marketing talent to help out with our web projects.
Please get in touch using the form below if you have skills in any of the listed areas and can work on a project-by-project basis.
Please Note:
- This posting is intended for contractors/freelancers to work on ad hoc projects.
- We are happy to hear from individuals, small teams or large agencies.
- Overseas contractors should be available for meetings on Japan Standard Time.
- We do not have any full-time vacancies at present.
- We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for Japan at this time. Foreign applicants already in Japan should have the right to work and live in the country.
- Being within commuting distance of Tokyo is a definite plus.
- Japanese language skills of N2, N1, or native level a huge advantage - you may be working with Japanese content and clients.
Got Skills?
Design & Prototyping
- UI/UX design
- Adobe XD
- InVision
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.)
- WordPress page builders (Elementor, etc.)
Development
- HTML, CSS
- WordPress themes and custom plugins
- WordPress security
- WordPress performance optimization
- Maintenance of multiple WordPress sites (e.g. ManageWP)
- Headless WordPress
- PHP (Laravel, others)
- JavaScript (React, Node, Vue, jQuery, etc.)
- Git
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Firebase
- Restful APIs (especially for WordPress)
- GraphQL
- Swagger.io
Ecommerce
- Shopify (Liquid) theme development, customization, custom apps
- WooCommerce customization
- Payment gateways (Stripe, PayPal, others)
- Rakuten Ichiba setup and admin
- Japanese payment gateways and shipping methods
CRM & Marketing
- HubSpot setup and admin
- HubSpot integration for web apps, WordPress, and ecommerce sites
- MailChimp
- Microsoft Dynamics
Mobile Apps
- Progressive Web Applications (PWA)
- Swift (iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS apps)
- Apple Developer / App Store setup and admin
QA & Testing
- Cross-browser testing on all major OS+browsers
- End-to-end testing
- Security testing
- Performance testing and optimization
Translation & Localization
- Japanese-English
- English-Japanese
- Japanese proofreading and copywriting
- Japanese IT-related content experience
SEO & Advertising
- All of the following in English and Japanese
- SEO audits - keyword analysis, reporting, comparison to rivals
- WordPress SEO overhauls, plugins, content adjustment
- Google Analytics & Google Search Console setup and reporting
- Google Ads campaigns and reporting