Jobs

Join the team.

Eat is a boutique branding and communications agency specializing in bridging cultures. We work with clients to solve their real-world challenges through a combination of insight, strategy, and creative execution.

By immersing ourselves in their worlds, we are able to work with them to develop unique solutions that deliver effective results.

Who we’re looking for:

  • While skill set is a must, it is attitude, experience and the effective application of your skills that is most important to us.
  • We’re looking for people who are interested in everything and not frightened by doing something new.
  • People who know their own strengths and weaknesses and are eager to grow, share their knowledge, and learn from others.
  • People who can understand challenges from a client’s perspective and can contribute to solutions that make a difference.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

work@eatcreative.jp



Job postings


2023-01-20

Senior Designer

You will join our creative team, working on a wide range of brand projects with an international or local focus, across a diverse range of B2B and B2C businesses and industries.

As Senior Designer, you will be involved in a wide range of projects and client needs - from ideation and concepting for brand visual identities, to brand guidelines and style guides, to brand collateral and materials across physical and digital touchpoints to name just a few.

You will have 4-6 years experience working in the Japanese marketplace and be comfortable working directly with Japanese and foreign client teams.

Excellent language capabilities in English and Japanese are ideal but will be considered on a candidate-by-candidate basis.

High proficiency with platforms including InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and XD is essential.

You will have confidence and professionalism for presenting and engaging with clients directly when necessary.

You are a creative problem solver, helping to develop real-world solutions to our clients’ business challenges.

You are comfortable working with, and supporting hybrid teams, both locally and remote, but are also happy to roll your sleeves up and take on more heavy-duty work when needed.

You are a self-starter and able to manage your own workload to ensure effective delivery to our clients on time and in budget.

You are eager to grow and support the company’s business development, getting involved in pitches and proposals, as well as marketing activities, content and collateral when needed.

2023-01-13

​Brand strategist

You will be part of a cross-practice team at Eat Creative providing specific expertise in brand strategy, frameworks and solutions that act as a foundation for brand design and implementation.

You will have 2-3 years’ experience working with clients, ideally across both B2B and B2C industries, helping them develop brand strategies and solutions, utilising your knowledge of business, brand challenges and opportunities, and trends.

An understanding and experience of developing a broad range of key brand strategy concepts is essential. These can include brand purpose, positioning, values, brand and portfolio architecture, customer value proposition, employee value proposition and messaging.

You will bring a strong analytical mindset that can synthesise a wide range of information sources, audits and inputs to reveal powerful territories and opportunities for brand strategy development.

You are a strong writer. Communications and how a brand is expressed to a customer or audience is critical to brand success. This will also apply to supporting the Eat Creative marketing efforts through the creation of thought leadership and content when possible.

You are flexible to be able to support our small work teams and team members – some in person, some remote - with varying client needs, deliverables and deadlines.

You are positive and bring a passionate energy to the brand challenges we have been tasked to solve. This extends to client-facing presentations and other interactions where you will be expected to provide a perspective, insight or learning.

You ideally have experience working with both international and Japanese clients, helping to scope a project that is appropriate for the needs and expectations of the client, no matter where they are from.

Excellent language capabilities in English and Japanese is ideal but will be considered on a candidate by candidate basis.

2022-06-13

Art Director

You will join our creative team to work on a wide range of projects.

You will have experience working in the Japanese marketplace and be comfortable working directly with Japanese and foreign client teams.

Your skillset will allow you to comfortably work across hybrid projects, comprising digital and physical components.

You are inquisitive and keep up-to-date with both developments in the industry as well as those of our clients.

You are comfortable working with, and managing hybrid teams, both locally and remote.

You are able to create engaging presentations to sell our ideas and solutions to our clients.

You are eager to grow and support the company’s growth.

2022-06-13

Designer

You will support our team on a wide range of projects. Ideally, you will have a high level of Japanese and at least 2-3 years of print and digital design experience.

Storytelling, content creation and great typography is central to what we do at Eat, and so experience typesetting Japanese and roman content for print and digital projects is essential.

You will be proficient in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, XD and outputting projects to print / web with minimum oversight.

You’ll also be comfortable working with Office and creating presentations to sell to our ideas and solutions.

Ideally you will also contribute other interests and skills – illustration, 3D modeling, animation and video production all play a role in our work.

You’ll be eager to learn and grow. Comfortable working as part of a diverse team with local and remote members, and ready to contribute ideas and sell solutions to our clients, when required.

2022-06-13

Project Lead

Eat is looking for a Project Lead. More than a project manager – you will own the project, work with the client to define a brief and a solution, then manage a project team at Eat to deliver.

You will have multiple years’ experience honing your branding and communications skills and delivering results. You will also have a good understanding of the Japanese marketplace and its unique challenges.

You will have knowledge of a broad range of creative disciplines and their application, and eager to absorb new developments in the industry.

You work well with others and can get the best out of a diverse team of creatives, as well as being able to sell solution to a client’s leadership team.

You are eager to grow and contribute to the company’s growth.