Role Description Are you an experienced English-to-Japanese Language Lead with a passion for hospitality, tourism, and marketing content? We are looking for a talented professional to support one of our most valued global clients and play a key role in ensuring high-quality, culturally relevant communications for Japanese audiences. As a Language Lead (Language Captain), you will serve as the linguistic and cultural expert for the Japanese market, playing a critical role in ensuring exceptional translation quality, consistency, and cultural relevance across all projects. You will act as a key point of contact between the client, project teams, and linguists, helping to drive localization excellence and maintain the highest quality standards. - Serve as the primary linguistic liaison for the Japanese language team. - Develop, maintain, and optimize Style Guides, glossaries, and linguistic instructions to ensure consistency across all deliverables. - Oversee linguistic quality management activities, including quality reviews and continuous improvement initiatives. - Manage linguistic queries and provide expert guidance to translators, reviewers, and project stakeholders. - Lead, mentor, and coordinate a remote team of freelance translators, editors, and LQA testers, offering constructive linguistic feedback, onboarding support, and ongoing training. - Collaborate closely with Project Managers and client stakeholders to streamline localization workflows, mitigate risks, and resolve complex linguistic or technical challenges. - Monitor, analyze, and report on linguistic quality metrics, resource performance, and project delivery timelines to support project success and continuous improvement. - Ensure translated content accurately reflects the client's brand voice while meeting the linguistic and cultural expectations of the target audience. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Translation, Linguistics, or a related field. - 5+ years of hands-on experience in translation/localization industry, with at least 2+ years acting in a Language Lead, Reviewer, or LQA Specialist capacity. - Strong background translating hospitality, hotel, tourism, and marketing content. - Native fluency in Japanese with an impeccable, professional command of source English. - A deep sensitivity to local tech terminology vs. regional variants is mandatory. - Must be currently living and working in Japan with an established, reliable remote setup. - Deep proficiency in advanced translation management systems and CAT tools (e.g., Trados Studio, Phrase, memoQ) alongside automated Quality Assurance tools (e.g., Xbench). - Exceptional communication, organizational, and conflict-resolution skills, with a demonstrated ability to manage concurrent pipelines and tight release schedules. Benefits - Flexible Remote Work: Based in Japan, managing your own hours around project deadlines. - Long-Term Collaboration Opportunities: We aim to build lasting partnerships with our freelance linguists; successful candidates will become part of our preferred talent pool for ongoing, periodic project assignments. - Cutting-Edge Tech: Gain experience working with advanced localization workflows, AI-driven translation tools, and global brand content. - Elite Projects: Build your portfolio by working on software utilized by millions of global users daily.

Role Description As a Marketing Associate (Content), you'll play a key role in building the 16VC brand through compelling content and digital marketing. You'll work closely with the investment team, venture studio, founders, and portfolio companies to create content that attracts entrepreneurs, investors, partners, and exceptional talent. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who loves storytelling, technology, startups, and venture capital. - Create engaging content for LinkedIn, X, newsletters, blogs, and the 16VC website. - Write investment announcements, founder interviews, portfolio updates, and thought leadership articles. - Develop content that showcases the work of our Venture Studio, Fellowship, and portfolio companies. - Produce simple graphics, presentations, and short-form videos for social media. - Manage the content calendar and coordinate content across marketing channels. - Support the promotion of events, founder sessions, demo days, and community initiatives. - Collaborate with founders to share product launches, milestones, and fundraising announcements. - Monitor content performance and recommend improvements based on engagement and analytics. - Research trends across AI, enterprise software, venture capital, and the startup ecosystem. - Help ensure all content reflects the 16VC brand and mission. Qualifications - 1–3 years of experience in content marketing, digital marketing, communications, journalism, or a related field. - Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills. - Experience creating content for LinkedIn and other social platforms. - Strong attention to detail and the ability to simplify complex topics. - Comfortable using tools such as Canva, Figma, Notion, CapCut, Google Workspace, or similar. - Organised, proactive, and able to manage multiple projects. - A genuine interest in startups, venture capital, entrepreneurship, AI, and emerging technologies. Requirements - Experience at a startup, venture capital firm, accelerator, agency, or media company. - Basic video editing and graphic design skills. - Familiarity with SEO, email marketing, and analytics tools. - Experience using AI tools to support content creation and research. Benefits - Work alongside founders, investors, and experienced operators building the next generation of technology companies. - Gain exposure to venture capital, startup investing, and company creation. - Help shape the voice and brand of a growing VC and Venture Studio. - Build a diverse portfolio of content across AI, technology, investing, and entrepreneurship. - Grow your career in a collaborative, fast-moving environment with meaningful ownership from day one.

• Regional Growth Engine: Make sure DACH B2B grows through aggressive lead generation and brand awareness. • Outbound Strategy: Build and execute complex, multi-language outbound sequences that cut through the noise. • Local Events: End-to-end ownership of local industry events, user conferences, and webinars in the region. • Cross-Functional Synergy: Collaborate with performance marketing on ABM initiatives and localized retargeting. • Analytics & Reporting: Monitor campaign performance, produce executive-level reporting, and recommend data-driven optimizations. • Localization & Messaging: Adapt ElevenLabs’ global voice to resonate deeply with the Spanish and Italian business cultures.

Role Description StoneAge is helping industrial cleaning evolve from manual methods to mechanized systems and ultimately to automated solutions. This transformation is changing how contractors and asset owners think about safety, productivity, and performance. As Director of Marketing, your mission is to accelerate that transformation. You will lead the strategy and execution that positions StoneAge as the category leader in automated industrial cleaning while driving customer adoption, revenue growth, and market expansion. You will ensure marketing serves as a strategic growth engine that strengthens customer relationships, influences business decisions, and creates measurable commercial impact. Reporting to the VP of Sales and Marketing, you will lead the global marketing function and work closely with Sales, Product, Solutions, Customer Success, and leadership teams across the StoneAge family of companies. What Success Looks Like - Marketing operates as a unified function across StoneAge and its subsidiaries. - Customers clearly understand the value of mechanized and automated solutions. - Marketing initiatives directly contribute to adoption, pipeline growth, and revenue. - StoneAge is increasingly recognized as the leader in automated industrial cleaning. - Sales teams are equipped with tools and messaging that improve effectiveness and conversion. - Product and service launches consistently drive engagement and customer action. - Marketing decisions are guided by customer insights and measurable business outcomes. - Cross-functional teams work together seamlessly to deliver exceptional customer experiences. - The marketing team is engaged, accountable, and continuously raising the bar. - You embody and strengthen StoneAge's Own It culture through ownership, feedback, accountability, and self-leadership. Qualifications - Connect strategy to execution and deliver measurable business and revenue results. - Translate complex technical solutions into simple, compelling stories. - Think naturally about customers, markets, and growth opportunities. - Use data to make decisions and improve performance. - Build alignment across teams and influence without relying on authority. - Hold yourself and others accountable for outcomes. - Prioritize effectively and make thoughtful tradeoffs. - Develop people and create high-performing teams. - Embrace AI and emerging technologies to improve speed, quality, and results. - Thrive in environments that value ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Preferred Experience - Leadership experience in marketing, growth, or commercial functions. - Experience in B2B, industrial, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, or related markets. - Experience building and executing integrated marketing strategies tied to business outcomes. - Experience with Salesforce, Pardot, or similar platforms. - Experience in customer segmentation, market research, and positioning. - Experience leading and developing teams. - Strong communication and presentation skills. - Ability to understand technical products and complex buying journeys. Additional Information - Travel required. - Occasional work outside standard business hours may be necessary to support global business needs. TEAM CULTURE - Customer-Focused: Passionate about delivering outstanding customer service. - Dedicated: Hardworking, trustworthy, and committed to giving 100% daily. “It’s not my job" doesn’t exist here. - Adaptable and Creative: Agile in the face of change, striving for excellence, and thinking creatively to solve problems. - Positive and Fun: Bring joy, humor, and a contagious positive attitude to the workplace. - Respectful and Collaborative: Listen to understand, respect others, and foster a spirit of teamwork. We are an employee-owned company with profit-sharing and an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP"), in which shares of company stock are allocated to eligible employees each year. Our "Own It" mindset captures what many of us consider the biggest benefit of all: a highly engaged, collaborative workplace where everyone matters and every employee makes a significant impact. Please visit our website at www.stoneagetools.com to get a better sense of our company and our employee-owned culture!