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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Woven by ToyotaAs the Senior Creative Strategy & UX Designer for our Energy Product, you will shape the creative direction of both the product and business. This role goes beyond visual design or production. We are looking for someone who can use creative thinking to clarify the value of a complex product, connect it to business strategy, and translate it into customer-facing experiences, narratives, visuals, and UX. The product sits at the intersection of mobility, home energy, software, sustainability, and daily life. While the technology and business structure are complex, the customer experience must feel simple, trustworthy, and meaningful. You will help make this complexity understandable for customers, dealers, executives, partners, and internal teams. You will work across strategy and execution: developing product and business narratives, defining the visual and experiential direction, creating materials for stakeholders, and contributing hands-on to UX/UI design, prototypes, user journeys, and communication assets. You will collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, business development teams, and external partners to ensure the product is not only technically feasible and commercially viable, but also desirable, understandable, and differentiated.
- Bachelor Degree or equivalent experience - 7+ years of experience driving creative work for digital products, services, platforms, or new business initiatives - Strong ability to translate complex business, technology, or product concepts into clear narratives, visuals, and customer experiences - Hands-on design skills, including the ability to create UX flows, wireframes, prototypes, visual concepts, presentation materials, and communication assets - Experience working cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, business teams, executives, and external partners - Ability to move ambiguous projects forward without a fully defined brief, and to create structure, direction, and momentum - Strong portfolio demonstrating both strategic thinking and high-quality creative execution - Conversational proficiency in Japanese and business-level proficiency in English
- Experience working on early-stage products, PoCs, pilots, or new business launches - Experience collaborating with external agencies, design studios, or production partners - Familiarity with customer research, service blueprinting, journey mapping, and usability testing - Experience in premium or luxury brand environments, especially where product experience and brand perception are deeply connected - Experience working with executive stakeholders and creating materials for senior leadership decision-making - Experience creating design systems, visual identity systems, narrative frameworks, or brand guidelines - Experience with Figma and other design / prototyping tools - Experience with motion design, video, spatial experience, or campaign planning - Experience working in large Japanese organizations and navigating internal approval processes, governance, and multi-stakeholder alignment - Interest in using creativity to make complex social infrastructure feel simple, human, and desirable - Experience in mobility, automotive, energy, smart home, sustainability, or infrastructure-related services - Experience designing or communicating products related to EVs, charging, V2H, HEMS, electricity plans, or energy data
- Competitive Salary - Based on experience - Work Hours - Flexible working time - Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated) - Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated) - Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company - Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance - Housing Allowance - Retirement Benefits - Rental Cars Support - In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
