Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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Jobs in Japan
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
666 jobs in Japan open to English speakers, updated 25 October 2026.
Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
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563 open jobs
RakutenEC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD) is a tech division under Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company of Rakuten Group, Inc. We are responsible for developing and enhancing our online system to support our core business, Rakuten Ichiba. Rakuten Ichiba is one of the largest internet shopping malls in Japan with 5.6 trillion sales in 2022 and our business is growing year on year. We aim to provide the best shopping entertainment for our shoppers and empower our partners in Rakuten Ichiba. While this service is growing steadily, we need a more robust and scalable system to drive further growth. We are also committed to providing the best user experience possible. This requires a stronger team and higher engineering skills, and we need more experienced Engineer to work with us as part of our development team. Lead system software development team as a Senior Engineer for development/operational product of navigation services in Rakuten Ichiba. Project planning (Create milestone, system delivery and development budget). Project management (Progress management, Reporting and Issue management). Communication with stakeholders (Negotiation with other teams, and scheduling). QA management (Arrangement with QA team, Define QA scope, Scheduling).
RakutenDepartment Overview EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD) is a tech division under Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company of Rakuten Group, Inc. We are responsible for developing and enhancing our online system to support our core business, Rakuten Ichiba. Rakuten Ichiba is one of the largest internet shopping malls in Japan with 5.6 trillion sales in 2022 and our business is growing year on year. We aim to provide the best shopping entertainment for our shoppers and empower our partners in Rakuten Ichiba. Position: Why We Hire While this service is growing steadily, we need a more robust and scalable system to drive further growth. We are also committed to providing the best user experience possible. This requires a stronger team and higher engineering skills, and we need more Backend engineers to work with us as part of our development team. Position Details - Define requirements, design, programming, testing, and deployment to deliver the system. - Collaborate with PDM, internal members, and upstream/downstream system teams. - Monitor system stability and performance, optimize performance, design and maintain system architectures, refactoring, optimization, and troubleshooting.
RakutenDepartment Overview EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD) is a tech division under Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company of Rakuten Group, Inc. We are responsible for developing and enhancing our online system to support our core business, Rakuten Ichiba. Rakuten Ichiba is one of the largest internet shopping malls in Japan with 5.6 trillion sales in 2022 and our business is growing year on year. We aim to provide the best shopping entertainment for our shoppers and empower our partners in Rakuten Ichiba. Position: Why We Hire While this service is growing steadily, we need a more robust and scalable system to drive further growth. We are also committed to providing the best user experience possible. This requires a stronger team and higher engineering skills, and we need more Backend engineers to work with us as part of our development team. Position Details - Define requirements, design, programming, testing, and deployment to deliver the system. - Collaborate with PDM, internal members, and upstream/downstream system teams. - Monitor system stability and performance, optimize performance, design and maintain system architectures, refactoring, optimization, and troubleshooting.
RakutenDepartment Overview EC Marketplace Development Department (ECMPD) is a tech division under Rakuten Commerce & Marketing Company of Rakuten Group, Inc. We are responsible for developing and enhancing our online system to support our core business, Rakuten Ichiba. Rakuten Ichiba is one of the largest internet shopping malls in Japan with 5.6 trillion sales in 2022 and our business is growing year on year. We aim to provide the best shopping entertainment for our shoppers and empower our partners in Rakuten Ichiba. Position: Why We Hire While this service is growing steadily, we need a more robust and scalable system to drive further growth. We are also committed to providing the best user experience possible. This requires a stronger team and higher engineering skills, and we need more Backend engineers to work with us as part of our development team. Position Details - Define requirements, design, programming, testing, and deployment to deliver the system - Collaborate with PDM, internal members, and upstream/downstream system teams - Monitor system stability and performance, optimize performance, design and maintain system architectures, refactoring, optimization, and troubleshooting
RakutenAs one of the largest domestic accommodation sites, we are seeking talented individuals who can play a central role in our future business growth. Depending on your performance after joining, you may have the opportunity to become a leader or manager of the sales group, or take on a key role in another department through career advancement. We are looking for motivated individuals who not only want to enhance their sales skills but also wish to delve into team management and leadership areas, and who are eager to grow their careers alongside the business. Consulting Sales Role to Maximize Revenue for Hotel and Ryokan partners. Understanding and keeping up with the latest market trends. Assessing the current status of accommodation providers (e.g., number of visitors, booking rates, booking prices, booking channels). Proposing solutions to address the challenges faced by accommodation providers through numerical analysis and issue identification. Suggesting measures to strengthen customer acquisition through advertising promotions. Encouraging participation in promotional planning in collaboration with the marketing and programming departments. After gaining practical experience in applying our web marketing expertise and numerical analysis to consulting proposals, you will also contribute to building a team that can further enhance regional revitalization. Additionally, depending on your career aspirations, you will have the opportunity to take on management roles for small teams.
RakutenRakuten Group focuses on expanding Rakuten Symphony business that provides to global customers our fully virtualized cloud native mobile network established in Japan, in addition to operating mobile network business, which is the key strategic area of the Rakuten group. We are hiring new members that supports intellectual property activities in our mobile network operator business and Rakuten Symphony business. The Rakuten Mobile business is actively promoting global business and development activities in Japan and overseas. We have many intellectual property teams outside of Japan and are developing an intellectual property organization consisting of multi-national members. Intellectual Property members are rapidly expanding along with the business growth, communicating with company executives, who have high intellectual property awareness. We are also monthly presenting IP update at Asakai, which is a company-wide conference that all employees join. Please join Intellectual Property Dept. of the company that disrupt the tradition and establish new and original intellectual property activities at the battlefront of mobile communications. It is necessary to further strengthen our licensing, contact review and intellectual property planning functions (SEP Management, OSS governance). We would like to recruit talented personnel from outside the company. Our organization is driven by talented early-career professionals who take ownership and make a real impact, while experienced senior members actively support the transfer of expertise and know-how. This creates an environment that combines speed, autonomy, and continuous learning, making it an excellent place to build and accelerate your career. Develop expertise in intellectual property dispute management, licensing negotiations, contract review, and IP planning, including OSS governance and SEP management. Gain practical experience in balancing legal, business, and technical considerations while supporting strategic business initiatives. Build project management, stakeholder management, negotiation, and risk management skills through collaboration with internal and external partners. Pursue career paths as a specialist in licensing, contracts, standardization, SEP strategy, and OSS governance, or advance into leadership and management roles within the intellectual property function. Handle intellectual property disputes and licensing negotiations. Manage warning letters, IP assertion and defense matters, settlement discussions, and negotiation of licensing terms and conditions. Review various agreements from business, technical, and intellectual property perspectives to mitigate risks and support business objectives. Conduct contract analysis and negotiate terms for NDAs, joint development agreements, license agreements, service agreements, and other commercial contracts. Drive the strategic planning and management of Standard Essential Patents (SEPs) to strengthen business competitiveness and maximize intellectual property value. Oversee traceability management between standardization contributions and related patent filings, monitor the progress of essentiality evaluations, manage the FRAND declaration process, maintain SEP portfolios, and coordinate overall activities to achieve key performance indicators (KPIs). Establish and operate governance frameworks for the proper use and management of Open Source Software (OSS), ensuring license compliance across the organization. Develop OSS usage policies, conduct usage reviews and approvals, perform license analyses, and provide compliance training and awareness programs. Team Size: Approximately 30 members in the Intellectual Property Department based in Tokyo. Employees in their 20s and 30s to employees in their 40s and 50s are approximately 3 : 2. Predominantly mid-career hires, with a small number of new graduate hires (2 employees).
Johnson & JohnsonThe Senior Manager, Health Care Compliance (HCC), Innovative Medicine R&D – Japan & Korea is the senior compliance adviser and accountable HCC lead for Innovative Medicine Research & Development activities across the two-country cluster. The role provides visible, independent and risk-based leadership that enables ethical, patient-centric and compliant execution of clinical development, External Scientific Innovation and related scientific activities. Working across two distinct legal, regulatory, industry-code and cultural environments, the position partners with senior R&D leaders and regional and global stakeholders to anticipate, assess and mitigate HCC risks; convert complex requirements into practical decision pathways; strengthen business risk acumen; and sustain effective compliance programmes in both markets. The role also provides leadership beyond the cluster through selected APAC and global initiatives, helping scale consistent approaches, insights and capabilities across the region.
PfizerThis position belongs to the People Experience (PX) department's Human Resources division and contributes to strengthening organizational capability and enhancing employee experience through the promotion of HR initiatives and operations that support contributions to patients and improve corporate value. Under the guidance and support of supervisors and managers, the role involves a wide range of HR-related tasks, including fostering a performance culture, managing HR-related regulations, overseeing labor management, streamlining HR operations, and participating in cross-departmental projects. Additionally, the position collaborates with domestic and international stakeholders and external vendors to support the smooth execution of global initiatives and cross-departmental projects. Furthermore, it involves appropriately incorporating generative AI and digital tools into daily operations to enhance efficiency in routine tasks, organize information, create materials, and improve work quality, thereby contributing to a more productive way of working.
OpenAIThe Support Engineering team works closely with Engineering, Product, Technical Success, Go-to-Market, and other teams to deliver an exceptional experience for our most strategic customers. We combine deep technical troubleshooting with durable customer context, proactive reliability work, and clear ownership during critical moments. We use automation, agents, and our own technology to help build the future of technical support. We’re looking for experienced, deeply curious technical problem-solvers to serve as trusted support partners for our Premium Support customers. You’ll work directly with customers on novel, ambiguous, and high-impact technical issues, using logs, telemetry, reproduction, and systems-level investigation to isolate causes and drive issues toward resolution. Beyond resolving individual issues, you’ll use your deep understanding of OpenAI’s infrastructure and products, together with each customer’s architecture and operating context, to anticipate risk and make their workloads more resilient over time. You’ll proactively monitor integrations, identify emerging failure patterns and architectural breakpoints, and work with customers and internal teams to address them before they become incidents. Success means that as a customer’s workloads mature and scale, the day-to-day effort required to support them decreases through better monitoring, runbooks, automation, and preventative improvements. This role is based in Tokyo. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. To succeed in this position you must be fully bilingual—fluent in both Japanese and English (spoken and written). Please note that your resume must be submitted in English, and the interview process will include conversations in both languages.
MicrosoftMicrosoft Customer Experience and Success (CE&S) is an organization that helps customers maximize the use of Microsoft technology to achieve business outcomes. We support not only the implementation of products and services but also work closely with customers to facilitate transformation and continuous value creation through technology. As business and work styles are significantly changing due to AI, we are looking for colleagues who can shape new possibilities together with our customers and accelerate AI Transformation. We are recruiting an AI Solution Architect to support the development and utilization of low-code AI agents for our customers. This position serves as a strategic Trusted Advisor for customers while also acting as a technical expert, utilizing Microsoft’s Business Applications solutions, including Copilot Studio and Power Platform, to help solve business challenges and maximize value for customers. The work style is flexible, allowing for a hybrid work model that combines in-office and remote work.