RECRUIT
Creating nightseveryone can enjoy.
RECRUIT
NEWSKOOL creates new places and new ways of running them in the night, the freest and most human time of day.
No precedent? Make one. Didn’t work? Stay positive and try again.
Our work is growing, and we are looking for people in every role. We’re waiting for you, ready to take big swings and play hard.
POSITIONS
Open positions
The manager of NEWSKOOL’s night sites across many regions. Working on the floor, you give shape to the business strategy, the operations that make the best nights, and the experience and peace of mind of the people who come.
Details→Full-time (mid-career)Business Development ProducerThe producer who builds NEWSKOOL’s night businesses from the very start. You read the potential of a place, write the business plan, put together the money and the deal, and turn unused night hours into businesses that last.
Details→Terms to discussMarketing & PRThe person who works out why our night places and businesses are somewhere people want to go, and keep going, and tells it. You start not from channels but from who, what and why, and build everything from someone’s first visit to the point where they want to keep coming.
Details→Part-timeEvent staffStaff on the nights NEWSKOOL runs: you welcome people, help make the place, and see it through to the clean-up. At7PM, a community where you meet people all over town at 7 pm on weekdays; NightPark, new places to be in redevelopment areas and around town; A-an, a tea room reimagined for today — each site has its own mood and its own crowd.
Details→InternshipLong-term internshipAn intern who joins NEWSKOOL projects and works with us from preparation to the night itself and the record of it. From research and decks to running the night and writing the report afterwards, you see up close, and with your own hands, how a project starts and takes shape.
Details→VALUES
What we value
Before answering a brief, we ask questions about the night of that place: its history, its people, cases from around the world. Good projects start from good questions.
Space, content, communication, finance, operations. Improving just one does not change the night. Tied together into one experience, a place becomes worth many times more.
We don't copy templates. Light works that make you stop without meaning to; a park you want to visit on rainy days. We create reasons that belong to one place only.
Nights are made by the people building scenes on the ground. Out of respect for them, we put operations above everything: we run it ourselves, improve it day by day, show the numbers, and see it through until the value of the place goes up.
We bring works and urban know-how from abroad to Japan, and take Japanese ways to cities overseas — seeing the world while knowing the night of our own streets best.
Owners, makers, neighbours, and the people who come. No single company can make a night, so we make everyone involved part of the team. Like the end credits of a film, we want everyone to be glad they were part of it.
Full-time (mid-career)
Head of Operations
The manager of NEWSKOOL’s night sites across many regions. Working on the floor, you give shape to the business strategy, the operations that make the best nights, and the experience and peace of mind of the people who come. Today we run At7PM, a community where you meet people all over town at 7 pm on weekdays; A-an, a tea room reimagined for today; and NightPark, which makes new places to be in redevelopment areas and around town. We are also preparing a business that combines stays and culture.
What you'll do
- Shaping business strategy
- Building operations and improving how we work
- Designing the guest experience (planning and improving events and services)
- Building the organization and managing the team
Core skills
- Managing a whole project from start to finish
- Experience coordinating many stakeholders
- Experience building an on-site operation and driving it to the project goal
- Getting things done with limited people, things and money
- The vibe and stamina to face questions with no right answer
Who we’re looking for
Keep the night good, night after night
Someone who reads guests' faces and the small unease of hosts and staff, and turns it into what makes the next night better.
- Can see not just what guests say, but how they wanted to spend the night.
- Can make each night better than the last by looking back every time.
- Can stand on the floor and decide from what they see.
- Can own both safety and the fun of the place.
Raise the team's energy
Someone who builds relationships with staff, hosts and partners of every age and background, and makes them one team for the night.
- Can find what each person is good at, and hand it over.
- Can build face-to-face relationships with outside partners and hosts.
- Can say the hard thing early and plainly.
- Can make it easy for newcomers to find their feet fast.
Make the night a business that lasts
Someone who doesn't stop at one good night, but sets up the numbers and the operation so it can move to the next site and the next city.
- Can read the numbers and decide what to change in how we run.
- Can leave procedures and records that work without them.
- Can move things forward with venues, neighbours and local government.
- Can decide and move forward without all the answers.
How you’ll work
- Contract
- Three months as a contractor (4 days a week), then hired full-time
- Location
- Our sites around the Kanto region, and the office in Meguro, Tokyo
- Hours
- Mostly on site from evening until around 10 pm; daytime is mostly meetings and desk work. Full flextime
- Travel
- Yes (mostly within Japan)
- Selection
- Casual chat → document screening → interviews (1–2)
Full-time (mid-career)
Business Development Producer
The producer who builds NEWSKOOL’s night businesses from the very start. You read the potential of a place, write the business plan, put together the money and the deal, and turn unused night hours into businesses that last. Today we work with real estate companies, railways and others on night use of redevelopment areas and public spaces, and on launching a business that combines stays and culture.
What you'll do
- Shaping new businesses and projects, and reading the potential of a place
- Business plans and financial models across buildings and operations
- How projects are funded (investment, sponsors, grants) and how deals are structured
- Connecting the five players — space, finance, content, communication and operations — into one deal
Core skills
- Building business plans and financial models
- Experience in developing or opening real estate, hotels or retail
- Experience negotiating with and aligning many stakeholders
- Experience structuring funding or deals
- The vibe and stamina to face questions with no right answer
Who we’re looking for
Put the night into business terms
Someone who translates the fun and culture of the night into revenue, timelines and asset value, so partners can decide.
- Can build a fun idea all the way to who pays and when it pays back.
- Can choose the shape of a business by seeing on what timeline the money moves.
- Can put into words the value that numbers can’t fully show.
- Can show an estimate with its assumptions and confidence kept apart.
Read the place, connect the players
Someone who reads the potential of a place, and brings the five players — space, finance, content, communication and operations — into one deal.
- Can read the potential of a place that isn’t a project yet.
- Understands the logic of space, money, content, communication and operations, and can bridge them.
- Can sort out who brings what and gets what, and carry it to agreement.
- Can find the missing players and win them over.
Make each project lead to the next
Someone who doesn’t stop at one-offs, but makes models that repeat in the next place and the next city.
- Can talk with the floor and adjust the plan to reality.
- Can record results in a form that serves the next proposal or investor.
- Can show, as a hypothesis, how it connects to property and area value.
- Enjoys inventing new ways to put money together.
How you’ll work
- Contract
- Full-time (mid-career). Starting on the side, or as a contractor on one project first, is open to discussion
- Location
- Our sites around the Kanto region, and the office in Meguro, Tokyo
- Hours
- Mostly daytime meetings and desk work, and on site some nights. Full flextime
- Travel
- Yes (mostly within Japan)
- Selection
- Casual chat → document screening → interviews (1–2)
Terms to discuss
Marketing & PR
The person who works out why our night places and businesses are somewhere people want to go, and keep going, and tells it. You start not from channels but from who, what and why, and build everything from someone’s first visit to the point where they want to keep coming. Beyond ads and social media, you own the touchpoints with neighbourhoods and communities, content curation and the brand’s words, all tied to the business.
What you'll do
- Communication strategy for each business (who, what and why)
- The brand’s words and the mood of what we put out
- Bringing people to their first visit, and designing why they keep coming
- Touchpoints with neighbourhoods and communities, and curating content
Core skills
- Experience in launch communication for a new service or place
- Building the message from how people actually feel
- Experience choosing and combining channels: social, press, offline
- Reading results in numbers and using them next time
- The vibe and stamina to face questions with no right answer
Who we’re looking for
Start from what and why
Someone who starts not from channels but from who, what and why, tied to what the business needs.
- Can put the core message into words before running any ads or posts.
- Holds concrete hypotheses about people, and goes for it without fear of missing.
- Judges by whether it moves people, not by how neat it looks.
- Doesn’t wait for a brief, but moves with a proposal of their own.
Make the first visit happen
Someone who creates the reason a stranger comes for the first time, and thinks through how it becomes a place they want to keep coming to.
- Can design the trigger and the path to someone’s first visit.
- Uses touchpoints through neighbourhoods and people, not just online.
- Thinks, from the guest’s side, about why people keep paying.
- Adjusts the message quickly from what guests say and do.
Keep the community going as a business
Someone who lifts the mood of the place while building communication that works as a business.
- Can bring people in by conveying value, not by discounts or free offers.
- Can design how content, community and space work together.
- Doesn’t stop at connecting people, but makes it last.
- Works toward the same goals with the operations and business development team.
How you’ll work
- Contract
- Terms to discuss (full-time, contractor, on the side, etc.)
- Location
- Our sites around the Kanto region, and the office in Meguro, Tokyo
- Hours
- Mostly daytime meetings and desk work, and on site some nights. Full flextime
- Selection
- Casual chat → document screening → interviews (1–2)
Part-time
Event staff
Staff on the nights NEWSKOOL runs: you welcome people, help make the place, and see it through to the clean-up. At7PM, a community where you meet people all over town at 7 pm on weekdays; NightPark, new places to be in redevelopment areas and around town; A-an, a tea room reimagined for today — each site has its own mood and its own crowd. The job is not only the front desk, but making the mood of the night with us.
What you'll do
- Welcoming and guiding guests, and talking with them
- Setting up and clearing the venue
- Supporting hosts and artists through the night
- Noting what happened, and sharing ideas for next time
Who we're looking for
- Loves welcoming people you’ve never met
- Free from evening into the night
- Enjoys the night yourself
- Can put what you notice into words
How you’ll work
- Contract
- Part-time (hourly, from ¥1,300)
- Location
- Our sites around the Kanto region
- Hours
- Evening until around 10 pm, on nights we run
- Selection
- Casual chat → interview
Internship
Long-term internship
An intern who joins NEWSKOOL projects and works with us from preparation to the night itself and the record of it. From research and decks to running the night and writing the report afterwards, you see up close, and with your own hands, how a project starts and takes shape. Along the way you learn how projects are built, what makes a good plan, and how to bring a team and everyone involved along with you.
What you'll do
- Helping projects move (notes, to-dos, schedules)
- Proposals and decks (cases, diagrams, first drafts)
- Helping on site, and recording what happened
- Drafting posts, reports and English intros
Who we're looking for
- Into cities, architecture, public space, culture or nightlife
- Wants to make things, not only research them
- Enjoys questions without one right answer
- Notices small changes and odd details
How you’ll work
- Days
- 3 days a week or more
- Location
- The office in Meguro, Tokyo, and our sites around the Kanto region
- Selection
- Casual chat → interview