Careers
Join a team that is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of traditional craft culture in Japan.
Kintsugi Teacher + Operations
Are you detail-oriented, dependable, and excited to create meaningful experiences for others?
POJ Studio in Kyoto is looking for a bilingual (Japanese and English) team player to support our kintsugi programs and community.
This role blends creativity, craft, and hospitality. You’ll assist with kintsugi classes, retreats, and apprentice programs, while also handling the behind-the-scenes details that keep everything running smoothly. Kintsugi training will be provided, but if you already enjoy crafts or hospitality, that’s a great bonus.
If you love hands-on work, enjoy supporting people, and take pride in making things flow seamlessly, we’d love to hear from you!
Requirements
- Hands-on work: Support kintsugi classes and retreats, assist with repairs, and prepare tools and materials.
- Participant support: Welcome guests, help with check-in/out, and ensure they’re comfortable during their stay.
- Smooth logistics: Communicate with suppliers, manage workshop materials, pack, and ship items.
- Space care: Oversee apartments, laundry, and cleaners so our spaces are always ready.
- Community connection: Help with emails and correspondence (including weekends) to keep participants supported.
SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATES WILL BE
- Bilingual: Fluent in Japanese and English (spoken and written).
- Organized & detail-oriented: Keep track of many moving parts without losing focus.
- Flexible & reliable: Comfortable with weekend work and shifting priorities.
- Hands-on & practical: Enjoys working with materials and solving problems.
- Positive team player: Cooperative, proactive, and dependable.
- Hospitality mindset: Care about people’s comfort and the little details that make an experience special.
NICE TO HAVE
Craft experience: Ideally, you have experience with kintsugi repairs or other crafts
Interested in Applying? To apply for this position, send your resumé and a brief cover note to tina@pojstudio.com
About POJ Studio
POJ (Pieces of Japan) Studio is an online platform built to bridge the gap between Japanese artisans and those consumers with a yearning for the hand-crafted homewares they produce. POJ Studio collaborates closely with craftspeople throughout Japan, creating an online collection of beautifully-designed lifestyle goods, offered alongside the stories of their creators.
POJ Studio fosters a socially-responsible attitude towards the way we live by providing modern lifestyle products that last, are repairable and are created from sustainable materials in a way that encourages the revival of dying Japanese craft traditions. We do this by building an ecosystem that offers the craftspeople with whom we work a point of sale for their goods, whilst celebrating stories of their heritage and sustainability in the form of videos, interviews and photo essays that help to highlight the true dedication and skill of each artisan. This not only offers the consumer a deeper connection to POJ Studio products, but also an explanation into the quality and history that goes into creating each item that they carefully curate and produce.