Casting Director

The Casting Director supports influencer-marketing projects in coordination with the Account Executive team, which handles proposal sales. The role helps advance proposals by arranging influencer casting and directing tie-up campaigns between influencers and brand companies.

Responsibilities include consulting with influencers and talent agencies about assignments, negotiating conditions, accompanying and directing shoots and events, and managing progress from contract through delivery acceptance. The role also performs proofreading and sales administration, analyzes data from campaign social-media posts, prepares reports, and finds, scouts, and manages influencers.

The work covers marketing and sales-promotion initiatives for national clients. Projects may involve top and micro influencers as well as talents, actors, idols, and athletes. THECOO operates the Fanicon fan-community app, iCON Suite, iCON CAST, the RIPPLY media service, and an online-marketing consulting business.

Applicants must be interested in influencers and social media and have either project-management experience or client-work experience. Preferred experience includes casting or directing influencers and talent for influencer marketing, and knowledge of beauty-related products. The posting also identifies regular use of Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and X, together with the ability to follow new products and news and communicate information, as relevant background. The role calls for careful task progression, communication with others, persistence in addressing issues, and an interest in promoting new services.

This is a full-time position in Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Annual compensation is listed at 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 JPY as a guideline, with possible consideration of prior compensation, experience, and ability. Salary is reviewed once a year, and the probationary period is six months.

The company uses a flextime system with core hours from 11:00 to 15:00. The expected working time is approximately eight hours per day, with average overtime of 20 to 40 hours per month. The posting describes an average employee age of 33, an environment where ideas and strategies can be voiced, and quick decision-making.

Benefits include social insurance, commuting expenses, influenza vaccination, babysitter-ticket assistance, support for study sessions, training and book purchases, freee welfare benefits, and full support for installing and using a high-speed home internet connection specified by the company. A designated smoking room is provided. Holidays include a five-day workweek with Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays off, year-end and New Year holidays, annual paid leave after six months of employment with 10 days granted in the first year, bereavement leave, Sick Leave, marriage leave, maternity and postnatal leave, childcare leave, and nursing-care leave.

The selection process consists of document screening, a first interview, a second interview followed by a personality aptitude test, a final interview, and an offer. The process may change, and the aptitude test alone is not used to determine the result.