Sales & Marketing Intern.

Role overview

Description

The core of the role is practical sales operations support, including CRM maintenance, quotation and delivery documentation, invoicing support, shipping and logistics, delivery and inventory coordination, and assistance with basic customer inquiries.

As the intern becomes familiar with the business, the role also provides exposure to pre-sales, business development, and marketing activities such as lead and account research, sales follow-up, customer meeting and demo preparation, exhibitions, campaigns, and Japanese content localization.

Roles & Responsibilities

The detailed responsibilities are maintained in the linked Job Description pages. The selection process should especially validate whether the candidate is comfortable with both sides of the role:

• Recurring sales operations and administrative execution: CRM, documents, shipping/logistics, delivery and inventory coordination, and follow-up.

• Growth responsibilities as the candidate develops: lead/account research, customer meeting and demo preparation, events, campaigns, localization, and other pre-sales / marketing support.

• Native-level or equivalent business Japanese.

• Practical business English sufficient for written communication with global colleagues and reading product / technical materials.

• Strong attention to detail and reliability for recurring operational work.

• Good organization and follow-through.

• Proactive communication and willingness to ask questions.

• Interest in technology, embedded systems, IoT, sales, and/or marketing.

• Basic PC / productivity-tool skills.

• Able to work approximately 20 hours per week, typically across at least 2–3 days, for a minimum of 6 months and attend the Tokyo office when required.

Preferred:

• TOEIC 750+ or equivalent communication ability.

• Previous internship, office, project, or student-organization experience.

• STEM, programming, or electronics exposure.

• Interest in a potential full-time graduate position after the internship, subject to business need and performance.

• Direct exposure to real B2B sales operations and customer-facing commercial processes.

• Progressive exposure to pre-sales, business development, marketing, events, and lead generation.

• Daily collaboration with the Japan team and regular interaction with international colleagues.

• Practical business-English experience.

• Exposure to embedded hardware, software, Edge Computing, IoT, and industrial technology markets.

• Potential consideration for a future graduate role depending on performance, mutual fit, and available headcount.