Lead growth marketing across Pixiv’s products and platform, owning acquisition, retention, monetization, brand promotion, cross-service growth, and marketing organization development.
Pixiv develops online services for creators and their audiences. Its core pixiv platform lets people publish and discover illustrations, manga, novels and animated works, while BOOTH supports sales of creative goods and digital works, pixivFACTORY handles on-demand production, and VRoid Studio provides 3D character creation tools.
The company earns money through paid pixiv Premium memberships and platform fees. BOOTH deducts service fees from sellers’ proceeds, while pixivFANBOX charges fees on recurring fan pledges. Its portfolio also includes pixiv Comic, drawing tool Pastela and creator-focused payment and printing services.
- Salary range
- ¥4.4M – ¥15M
- Median
- ¥5.5M – ¥7.9M
- Remote or hybrid
- 75%
- Most requested
- JavaScript 9
- Google Cloud 8
- React 8
- Kubernetes 6
- MySQL 6
- Next.js 6
- JLPT N2 1
- JLPT N1 1
- Japanese posting, level unstated 18
- Common areas
- Backend engineering 9
- Frontend engineering 8
- Project management 5
- Marketing 4
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open positions at Pixiv
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Design, develop, and operate payment and money-transfer functions for pixiv services, integrate external providers, prevent fraud, monitor reliability, and coordinate platform improvements with other teams.
Lead user growth in Indonesia through creator-community relations, event and alliance planning, promotions, and operation of Indonesian-market pixiv and social-media accounts.
Develop and operate the backend foundation for pixiv Premium, a large subscription service, covering analysis, design, implementation, performance, safety, platform renewal, and team leadership.
Develop VRoid Hub and VRoid SDK from planning through release, coding, reviewing code, making technical decisions, and using Ruby on Rails, React, AWS and Kubernetes.
Manage product discovery, planning, requirements, development, release, and ongoing improvement for pixiv’s illustration, manga, and novel platform. Use data and user insights to improve user experience, community engagement, and global product growth.
Develop and operate the pixiv Sketch iOS app with Swift, delivering features, improving quality through testing and refactoring, collecting data for analysis, and coordinating with other disciplines.
Develop and improve pixiv’s web platform using TypeScript, React and Next.js. Own work from identifying user needs through planning, implementation, release verification and ongoing UX improvements.
Develop and improve backend web applications for pixiv’s large-scale creative platform, from identifying user needs through planning, implementation, release validation and ongoing improvement. Hybrid work is available.
Design LLM-enabled systems, optimize internal workflows, and build shared platforms and agents with business teams. Domestic remote work is available beyond 100 km.
Lead an engineering team of about six for pixiv Encyclopedia, driving its renewal, backend API or Next.js work, new features, technology selection, and progress management.
Design, build, and operate Pixiv’s on-premises and cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes, OpenStack, databases, developer platforms, data centers, and networks.
The role involves planning and marketing strategies focused on community building within the pixiv platform, particularly in the illustration and manga sectors.
Coordinate creators and clients, manage projects and paperwork, support sales and SNS/FANBOX operations, and plan events and merchandise while advising creators on audience growth.
Plans events and merchandise, coordinates creators and clients, supports sales and SNS operations, and advises creators. Domestic full remote is available over 100 km away.
Plan new IP and content projects with illustrators, coordinate partner companies and creators, manage commissioned work, and organize and analyze internal data while advancing collaborative entertainment projects.
Plan and operate pixiv services, identify opportunities, and coordinate product, publishing, advertising, alliance, and overseas-growth initiatives with internal and external stakeholders.
Develop web and mobile services for creators, contributing to feature planning, UI or application development, performance improvement, data, infrastructure and ongoing operations.
Long-term interns develop Pixiv services across frontend, backend, mobile, data, machine learning, payments, advertising, and 3D/Unity, improving features, performance, and user experience.
Support creators in their creative activities and enhance communication with fans.