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Japanese Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 22+ japanese jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 4 new this week. Hiring companies include Tulip Interfaces, Canva, and Forter.

Schedules on this page

half-day Fridays 2
flexible hours 1
unlimited PTO 6
best places to work 10
generous parental leave 2

Updated August 24, 2026

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Account Executive (Manufacturing) (Japan)

Tulip Interfaces · Remote · Japan

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Senior DevOps Engineer

Tulip Interfaces · Remote · Japan

59 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Technical Solutions Specialist (Japan)

10d

Dropbox · Remote · Japan

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Founding Deployment Lead, Japan

1mo

Runway · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$220k – $280k

Creative Workflow Architect (Fluent in Japanese)

1mo

Runway · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$160k – $210k

Lead Solutions Engineer

2mo

Acquia · Remote · Japan

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

SEO Outreacher

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Canva · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Manager-Alliance

Amgen · Hybrid · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Technical Support Engineer

4mo

Forter · Hybrid · Singapore, Singapore

73 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Japanese Speaking Technical Support Engineer

4mo

Forter · Hybrid · Singapore, Singapore

73 · GreatHalf Day Fridays

Compliance Product Owner

10d

Adobe · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

58 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

Market Manager, Japan - Hotels

4mo

Airbnb · Onsite · Tokyo, Japan

64 · GoodFlexible Hours

Java Application Support Engineer (Japanese Speaking)

13d

Guidewire · Hybrid · Bangalore, India

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Customer Support Specialist, Bilingual English & Japanese

1mo

Klaviyo · Hybrid · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$80k – $120k

Japan Channel Account Manager

1mo

Canva · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Functional Architect

2mo

Guidewire · Hybrid · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

58 · GoodBest Place to Work

Associate Customer Success Manager

17d

ServiceNow · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Lead Project Manager

20d

Celonis · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Recruiting Manager

26d

Sierra · Onsite · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Systems Reliability Engineer

1mo

Nutanix · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Japanese on this page include Tulip Interfaces, Canva, and Forter. Japanese roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Japanese is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Japanese roles span the full seniority range — we list 22 open roles requiring Japanese across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Japanese hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Japanese roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Japanese candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Japanese on current listings.