Country Manager - Japan

Internship Offer: Our Great Ed-Tech Start-up is Looking for the Perfect Candidate to Develop Superprof Japan

About Superprof

Founded more than 5 years ago (August 2013), Superprof connects students and tutors for lessons in more than 1000 subjects: music (guitar, piano etc.), languages, sports (golf, personal training, swimming etc.) and academic tutoring (math, history etc.).

More than 10 million users trusted in us in 2018 in 25 countries: Argentina, Australia, Colombia, Indonesia, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Turkey, South Africa, France, Sweden, Chile, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Spain, Mexico, Portugal, Germany, India, Italy, the UK, the US, Canada and Brazil.

Our headquarters are in a beautiful office in the 8th ‘arrondissement’ of Paris. Our team of 63 people is extremely welcoming, fun and enthusiastic.

Job description

Our current Country Manager for Superprof Japon will sadly have to leave us soon as new adventures are waiting for her in London. That is the reason why we are now looking for a person looking for an end-of-course internship to take over Superprof’s Japanese market from our HQ in Paris. We wish to maintain the high quality of our service and support the development of this market.

Working directly with the top management, you will be in charge of the development of Superprof in Japan: development and management of our community of users in Japan, management of our SEO strategy, competitive intelligence and merge & acquisition strategy, management of your own team in the mid-long term. We have the experience and knowledge to do this within our team so sharing best practices will be very easy. There will also be a handover phase with our current Country Manager.

Missions

• Developing the activity within the Japanese market
  - Co-defining the strategy and the priorities (business model,acquisitions,goals) - Communicating on Superprof in the media
  - Boosting SEO of Superprof Japan

• Managing of Superprof’s community and activity
  - Adapting the French website’s improvements to the Japanese website
  - Suggesting improvements to our ways of working (process simplification,automatisation) - Guaranteeing a high level of user satisfaction (email responses,telephone,socialmedia)
  - Helping Superprof tutors to publish their tutor ads (pictures,text)
  - Maintaining good connections between tutors and students

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  Profile

  Excellent knowledge of Japan and you speak French and/or English
  You understand web culture and business
  You are proactive and autonomous
  You wish to work in a start-up and join a big family because you like team work
  You want to develop a project from scratch and ensure a good evolution of the business § You like big challenges, you are curious and you like learning

  You are good at communicating

Recruitment procedure

1. Phone interview lasting around 30 minutes

2. Face to face or Skype interview

3. A third interview may take place in case of hesitation between several candidates

Conditions

Remuneration: 6,37€ gross/hour, which results in around 900€ per month after taxes - 5 days of paid holiday