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Japanese Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 15+ japanese jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and best places to work—for a better work-life balance. 2 new this week. Hiring companies include Mesh, Runway, and Dropbox.

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Solutions Engineer, Japan

1mo

Cribl · Remote · Tokyo, Japan

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Business Development Representative - Japan

1mo

Dropbox · Remote · Japan

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Technical Solutions Specialist (Japan)

1mo

Dropbox · Remote · Japan

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

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Founding Deployment Lead, Japan

2mo

Runway · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$220k – $280k

Creative Workflow Architect (Fluent in Japanese)

2mo

Runway · Remote · USA

62 · GoodUnlimited PTO$160k – $210k

Mid Market Account Executive - Japan

Elastic · Onsite · Tokyo, Japan

62 · GoodBest Place to Work

Head of Financial Operations, Japan

29d

Block · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

61 · GoodUnlimited PTO

People Services Generalist (Japanese Speaker)

22d

Sanofi · Hybrid · Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

59 · GoodGenerous PTO

Customer Support Specialist, Bilingual English & Japanese

2mo

Klaviyo · Hybrid · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

58 · GoodUnlimited PTO$80k – $120k

Compliance Officer, Japan

1mo

Mesh · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO¥150k – ¥300k

Director, Japan Business Development and Responsible Director

1mo

Mesh · Onsite · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO¥240k – ¥450k

Threat Hunter

3mo

Tanium · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodBest Place to Work

Recruiter

3mo

Sierra · Onsite · Tokyo, Japan

57 · GoodUnlimited PTO

Product Support Specialist

4mo

Anthropic · Hybrid · Tokyo, Japan

55 · GoodGenerous Parental Leave

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Employers hiring for Japanese on this page include Mesh, Runway, and Dropbox. 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 15 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.

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