Creative Type Director, Japan

Creative Type Director, Japan

Tokyo

Are you our “TYPE”?

Named "One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design'' by Fast Company, Monotype brings brands to life through type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman and more. Monotype specializes in the design, development, licensing, and management of typefaces and font technologies for the world’s biggest global brands and individual creative professionals, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. 

Want to learn more about who we are, what we do, and how you can become part of our team of over 1,000 talented employees across the globe? Visit us at www.monotype.com

We are looking for a Creative Type Director in Tokyo, to help us drive our strategy within this growing and high potential market. The Creative Type Director will have a wide range of responsibilities, but will be instrumental in supporting and collaborating with our Japan sales team on growing revenue, building relationships and acting as a trusted typographic advisor on behalf of the Company.

What you will be doing?

• Promote our expertise and typography at large as well as maintain and build our reputation for excellence in type.
• Support and collaborate with sales and account managers at customer meetings as well as marketing specialists of such regions as an expert type design & typographic consultant.
• Collaborating with Japan sales leadership up to and including VP and SVP level.
• Deliver presentations to customers, agencies or other industry events. Participate in podcasts, webinars and other marketing owned activities as required.
• Represent the company as the senior type design expert within Japan and elsewhere as required
• Take an active role in building relationships and acting as a trusted advisor with our customers, within the type design community, agencies, freelancers and universities.
• Coordinate and lead the creative component for custom projects. Lead and collaborate with internal and external type designers or other contributors working on projects for which you are the Creative Type Director.
• Collaborate with our other Creative Type Directors, sales and marketing specialists around the globe on the development of the Monotype Library.
• Recognize and analyze local market trends in type design and make recommendations for strategic initiatives to satisfy customer needs and increase business.
• Ongoing collaboration with the entire Monotype Studio team.
• Continuous development of knowledge about current font technologies, Non-Latin scripts, and typographic practices.

What we are looking for?

• Ideally you will hold a Masters Degree in Visual Communication/Type Design or a similar creative field.
• Extensive experience in a senior type design or Creative Director role.
• Understanding of the Type market and customers needs in Japan
• Established network of peers in the creative community up to C-suite level (desired).
• Fluent in Japanese & English
• A type design portfolio showing high quality design skills and the necessary technical know-how.
• Very good technical skills using an industry standard font editing tool (i.e. Glyphs, RoboFont, FontLab Studio, Adobe FDK).
• Well-structured work methodology and capability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Editorial capabilities to write short articles or blog entries on typography.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Willingness to travel.

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible work arrangements and yearly paid vacation and sick time.
• Competitive commercial medical insurance coverage to meet all your healthcare needs.
• Global Recognition&Reward program
• Extensive development and training offerings.  
• Opportunity to work with global teams with diverse cultures.