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Lang-8, inc. is hiring for positions related to HiNative Trek.

Lang-8’s sister service, HiNative, released an English learning program through our app called HiNative Trek in February, 2016. Students receive problems every morning via the app, turn in answers, and then get personalized feedback from their Teachers.

The service has been out for a little over a year and a half, and we’re looking to hire more Teachers to help support students as they register for the program. If you meet the requirements of the position below and are interested in working for the best language-learning startup in Japan, we hope you’ll drop us a line!

What you’ll be doing:

• Be responsible for your group of students as they progress through the HiNative Trek course, correct written pieces of homework, giving tips on pronunciation, and providing great examples on a daily basis
• Answer follow up questions and make sure your students are grasping difficult concepts
  
• Curate the Trek course materials making sure everything is accurate and typo free, help record sample answers and register the problems to our system.
• Help out with various marketing and customer support tasks.
  

Minimum qualifications:

• Native English speaker (American)
  
• Experience in business/tech/IT/startups
  
• Very flexible schedule on weekdays, M-F between 12 - 6pm JST
  
• Good with computers and always quick to respond to messages
  
• Always on top of things and never miss deadlines
• Reliable and independent

Preferred qualifications:

• Located in Japan / Korea / Taiwan / China
  
• Intermediate to advanced Japanese language skills
• Experience using GitHub

This is a paid position which you can do from the comfort of your own home, and a great opportunity to work for a growing Japanese startup, improve your teaching skills, and be a part of the development of a new and exciting service.

To apply or to hear more about the position, please send a message to jobs@lang-8.jp with the subject line “HiNative Trek Teacher Application” and your resume attached as a PDF and we’ll be in touch!

Can’t wait to hear from you!
Team HiNative