Updated August 4, 2026

23 open positions

Japanese Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 23+ japanese jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—full pay and a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Sierra, Runway, and Forter.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Investor Relations (APAC)

iCapital

RemoteAsia or Oceania

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Technical Customer Support Engineer

3mo

ClickHouse

RemoteJapan

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Founding Deployment Lead, Japan

20d

Runway

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$220k – $280k

Creative Workflow Architect (Fluent in Japanese)

20d

Runway

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$160k – $210k

Lead Solutions Engineer

1mo

Acquia

RemoteJapan

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Accounting Manager – Financial Reporting & Transformation (AKK/ABGK)

18h

Amgen

HybridTokyo, Japan

59 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

Lead Project Manager

23h

Celonis

HybridTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Manager - Financial Controller, Japan

Fidelity International

OnsiteDalian, China

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Recruiting Manager

Sierra

OnsiteTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Technical Support Engineer

3mo

Forter

HybridTokyo, Japan

73 · GreatHalf day fridays

Japanese Speaking Technical Support Engineer

3mo

Forter

HybridSingapore, Singapore

73 · GreatHalf day fridays

GTM Operations

10d

Sierra

OnsiteTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Systems Reliability Engineer

11d

Nutanix

HybridTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Market Manager, Japan - Hotels

3mo

Airbnb

HybridTokyo, Japan

64 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Customer Support Specialist, Bilingual English & Japanese

24d

Klaviyo

HybridSydney, Australia

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$80k – $120k

Japan Channel Account Manager

1mo

Canva

HybridTokyo, Japan

58 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Office Manager

27d

Sierra

OnsiteTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Threat Hunter

1mo

Tanium

HybridTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Product Support Specialist

2mo

Anthropic

HybridTokyo, Japan

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer

1mo

Sierra

OnsiteTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Recruiter

1mo

Sierra

OnsiteTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Sales Engineer

1mo

Sierra

OnsiteTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Product Manager, Agent Development

1mo

Sierra

OnsiteTokyo, Japan

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Japanese on this page include Sierra, Runway, 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 23 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.