Japanese-English Translator / Client Alignment Specialist

At Quire, we are builders and innovators. Quire operates at the intersection of craftsmanship and strategic finance, specializing in media, technology, and consumer convergence - value creation where content, technology, and commerce meet. We serve enterprise leaders: public and private founders/CEOs, boards, corporate owners, and select PE/VC sponsors and family offices. Our standard is atelier-level quality, speed, and discretion. Our work focuses on two strategic areas. A. Innovation & Growth: Our innovation and growth teams build strategic plans to support revenue and market share growth, including relevant financial and valuation analysis. Innovation & Growth clients seek ways to grow much faster, achieve deeper competitive differentiation, and demand a clearer sense of potential exit valuations. B. Restructuring: Our restructuring teams eliminate costs, build new strategies, and support repositioning or relaunch. Restructuring clients typically have failed to achieve strategic plans and goals and, often, have limited capital and time to build and execute a new strategic and financial plan. Our projects are all highly structured and use teams made up of remote consultants who are domain experts. Consultants are compensated based on expertise and experience. Quire pays a premium of 25% - 40% above market on average to ensure the best talent. Quire's clients are highly sophisticated and demand excellence. To ensure we are always raising our standards, Quire maintains values that define our work and culture. ● Exceptional Quality. We strive in all instances to contribute ideas, recommendations, and work product that is of exceptional quality. Quire's standard is often higher than both that of our clients and the market. ● Focus on Client Value. Our strategic solutions must deliver clear, quantifiable value to clients. We achieve this through how we connect innovative strategic ideas with world-class financial and valuation analysis. ● Creative Scarcity. Quire deeply values creativity and appreciates its scarcity. We maintain space to nurture creativity and are constantly pursuing ways to apply new creative solutions and technologies to solve problems and build new products and forms of content. Japanese-English Translator / Client Alignment Specialist This role is for someone who is fluent in Japanese and English and can support high-stakes client communication across live calls, written materials, and project alignment discussions. You should be able to translate accurately, clarify nuance respectfully, and help ensure that both the Quire team and the client fully understand the intended meaning, deliverable expectations, format requirements, and decision context. This role will support a confidential client engagement for a major global entertainment and technology company with businesses across film, television, OTT, games, and interactive media. The project is a focused first-phase technology market study on how AI is reshaping content creation, production workflows, AI-native studio models, narrative systems, franchise management, and game-connected or transmedia worlds. You will help Quire reduce language friction during the project by supporting select client calls, scoping conversations, interim check-ins, and final readout discussions. This may include live interpretation, clarifying follow-up questions, translation of key client feedback, and short written summaries of what the client appears to mean or expect. This is not a general administrative role. The work requires someone with excellent Japanese-English communication skills, strong professional judgment, cultural fluency, and enough business context to understand consulting, research, technology, media, or executive-client discussions. Quire will pay a premium rate for an individual who works autonomously, responds rapidly, understands urgency, and demonstrates strong judgment in translation, interpretation, confidentiality, and client-facing communication. Key Responsibilities: ● Provide Japanese-English interpretation support during select live client calls, project check-ins, scoping discussions, and final presentation/readout meetings. ● Help clarify client comments, questions, feedback, and implied expectations in real time when meaning, tone, or deliverable requirements may be unclear. ● Support Quire in confirming the client's expectations around research depth, ecosystem overview format, page structure, interview outputs, deliverable layout, and final work product. ● Translate or summarize short written materials, call notes, client comments, and follow-up items when needed. ● Help the Quire team understand cultural or business-context nuance that may affect how the client is responding, agreeing, disagreeing, or asking for revisions. <