Senior Creative Insights Researcher (Japanese Speaker)

The Creative team provides customers with original, relevant, and contemporary visuals. Through an industry-unique combination of consumer research, proprietary data, and three decades of trend reporting experience, the team delivers actionable insights that guide customers to the visual content that connects with consumers. Closely collaborating with our contributor base of photographers, videographers, and illustrators around the world, the team develops market leading, authentic, and differentiated content.    Who You Are: You are a fluent Japanese and English speaker who is passionate about the way imagery works. You are naturally interested in visual communication in all forms and love discussing the content that you come across. You are equal parts creative and analytical. You enjoy research and are comfortable sharing what you know with the world at large. You are highly organized and detail-oriented, able to manage the moving parts of multiple work streams operating simultaneously while still meeting deadlines. You are a creative problem-solver with the ability to quickly identify problems and work independently to find appropriate solutions. You have a pulse on what’s new and next in art and culture and are not afraid to share your insights and perspective with a multi-disciplinary creative team. Your Next Challenge: • Research & Analysis • Create subject-area lightboxes in our proprietary content management system to support content analysis. • Conduct qualitative visual analysis of multi-format creative content, identifying themes/patterns to determine content needs and opportunities. • Interpret proprietary search and sales data to identify and anticipate directional shifts in customer interests and content needs. • Work with Sales partners and Research teams to collect and collate relevant customer feedback on creative content. • Find and archive relevant tear sheets/swipes from marketing/advertising and related industry publications. • Mine external sources such as consumer research databases, world news, pop culture, advertising, fine art/photography for unique insights that will help internal and external partners understand how shifts in the global landscape will impact creative content. • Support the broader Creative Insights team in synthesizing findings to be presented to internal and external audiences. • Sales, Marketing & PR Support • Collaborate with global and regional marketing teams to grow key accounts by providing insights on visual trends impacting their business. • Write insightful thought-leadership pieces for the Getty creative insights page that positions creative offerings as cutting-edge, high quality and industry-leading. • Assist and/or lead the creation of customer-facing presentations about harnessing visual trends to fuel powerful brand storytelling. • Create themed visual boards and compile related data for marketing, PR-teams and site merchandising to utilize throughout the year for promotion. • Attend seminars, panel discussions and media interviews as needed. • Contributor Communications • Support content development specialists and managers in shoot planning by providing context on visual trends and industry needs • Prepare presentations to disseminate visual trends to contributors in-person or virtually. What You'll Need: • Must be a fluent Japanese and English speaker • At least 4 years of experience in a related field (e.g., advertising/marketing, research, photography, video, etc.) • Basic visual literacy with a broad understanding of photography as a medium, trends in popular culture (film, TV, music, art), global news, etc. Video/filmmaking knowledge is a plus, but not required. • Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex ideas to different audiences. • Strong research and analytical skills, with the ability to synthesize and interpret large amounts of qualitative and quantitative data. • Proven ability to manage multiple distinct projects at the same time. • Positive, collaborative attitude with a passion for creative excellence. • Ability to balance being a key partner, who is empathic towards their peers and seeks consensus, with being a strong advocate and champion for data-driven decision making. • Experience thriving in a fast-moving, dynamic creative environment. • Proficiency in relevant software applications, particularly Microsoft PowerPoint (and/or Keynote) and Excel. There’s a story in every picture, a narrative in every frame.  We believe in the power of visuals. As a leading visual content creator, our three brands–Getty Images, iStock, and Unsplash–offer a full range of content solutions to meet the needs of any customer, whatever their size, location, or budget. Whether the goal is commercial or philanthropic, revenue-generating or society-changing, market-disrupting or headline-driving, our visuals help any brand, business, or organization communicate more effectively with their target audience and urge them to action. In other words, we know how powerful an image or video can be—and that it can move the world.    Working at Getty Images  Our goal is to be one of the best places to work globally, which means we’re dedicated to providing experiences and resources that allow you to do your best work. Foundational to our culture are our Leadership Principles, which are the shared values that guide how we come together to do our work. We raise the bar and collectively bring solutions while exercising trust, transparency, and care. We actively reject biased behavior and are inclusive of different voices, perspectives, and experiences. We focus on our customers and deliver on our commitments and commercial goals.    We foster a collaborative and supportive environment that prioritizes delivering results efficiently and using time wisely, so that all employees can achieve balance between commitments to the company and health and well-being in our lives. We value the importan…