Interpreter, Communications Team

You will join our Tokyo or Osaka office as part of the Interpretation team within the broader Communications group, which supports interpretation, document translation, and editing services for McKinsey’s consultants in Japan. We are a multicultural group of high performers who value collaborating to solve problems and who share a healthy risk appetite and bias for action; we will inspire you to continually improve and innovate.

As an interpreter, you will deliver bi-directional (Japanese ↔ English) simultaneous interpreting for McKinsey clients and consultants, both in-person and remotely, across a variety of high-profile engagement situations.

You will deliver accurate and lucid simultaneous interpretation at speed, enabling McKinsey consultants to seamlessly communicate with clients and generate impact across all sectors where McKinsey is active. Covering in-person, hybrid, and remote meeting formats, you will interpret in boardroom presentations, expert interviews, workshops, plant walkthroughs, and roundtable events, among other settings.

Collaborating and sharing glossaries, reference materials and other information with interpreter colleagues and other linguists will be a deliberate, daily ritual as you prepare for upcoming assignments. You will develop close working relationships with consultant requesters, directly contacting them for briefings and the latest meeting materials ahead of your assignments and flexibly responding to changing request situations. Communicating with interpretation users and fellow interpreters after client meetings to gather developmental feedback on your performance will be a regular practice, and essential to your continued development as part of the team.

Outside of interpreting assignments you may be tasked with translating documents, and you will also contribute to or lead team initiatives, ranging from process improvement to skill building and connectivity, as an engaged, collaborative, and caring colleague.

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