An internship for university students in Japan. Lead 8x's launch in the Japanese market: write the go-to-market playbook, build your own outreach, close the first Japanese clients and grow them into long-term partners. Fully remote, native Japanese, no CV requirements. Show us you are hungry and can execute.
8x is the fastest growing company in human orchestration: we put the human in the loop, across marketing, engineering, sales and more.
$7M+ Raised
250k+ Humans managed
50+ Countries
The internship
This is an internship for students at universities in Japan. You get real ownership from day one: your own market, your own pipeline and your own clients. It starts with a 2 week trial.
The role
There is no playbook for Japan yet. You write it.
Design the go-to-market strategy
Which Japanese segments to go after first, how 8x should be positioned locally, and what the path from first deal to a repeatable engine looks like.
Build and run the outreach
Your own target list, your own email and LinkedIn sequences, your own calls. You find and close the first Japanese clients.
Own the client relationships
Keep the brands you close happy, growing and referring.
Launch local initiatives
Coordinate with the rest of the team on events, partnerships and communities that put 8x on the map in Japan. If you have an idea, you pitch it and we back it.
Report on what moves
Weekly numbers, an honest read of what is working, and a plan for next week.
You
A current university student
You are studying at a university in Japan and want real commercial experience alongside it.
Hungry
You want to prove you can build something, and you are not waiting for permission.
A fast learner
You ask for feedback instead of hiding from it, and you apply it the same day.
An owner
If a deal is stuck, you unstick it. If something is missing, you build it.
AI-native
You already use AI to get more done, or you will pick it up in a week. You look at a manual process and ask how to automate it.
A system builder
You do not just close deals, you build the machine that closes them: the lists, the sequences, the tracking, the routine that runs without you pushing it every day.
Local
Native Japanese and fluent English. You understand the Japanese landscape: how brands there think, buy and talk.
Remote and flexible
You can be anywhere. You do not need to be based in Japan, you need to know it.
Sales, growth, agency or founder experience helps. It is not required. No specific university requirements, no years-of-experience requirements. Show us you are hungry and that you can execute.
Meet the people who work at 8x.
Short clips from people on the team, in their own words. Hover to watch, click for sound.
Apply for this role
Tell us what you have built. The questions take about fifteen minutes, and you can come back to a half-finished application at any point.
