The Senior Accountant will manage financial reporting, compliance, and accounting processes for SmartNews and its subsidiaries.
SmartNews is a Tokyo-based information and news-discovery company. Its app brings readers current-affairs and practical-life articles from more than 3,000 media partners, while helping publishers reach audiences. SmartNews+ offers selected premium articles, chiefly covering business and economics, from more than 50 media companies.
The company earns revenue from paid SmartNews+ subscriptions and SmartNews Ads, which sells targeted in-app placements to advertisers. Its products serve readers, media partners and marketers in Japan and the United States. In July 2026, SmartNews added on-demand AI translation into Spanish and Chinese for iOS users in the U.S.
- Can be worked in English
- 11%
- Visa-sponsorship signal
- 22%
- Remote or hybrid
- 4%
- Most requested
- Generative AI / LLM 11
- Python 5
- Kubernetes 4
- SQL 4
- AWS 3
- Docker 3
- JLPT N1 4
- Native Japanese 8
- Japanese posting, level unstated 13
- No Japanese level detected 2
- Common areas
- Business development 5
- Consulting & strategy 4
- Sales 3
- Backend engineering 2
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open positions at SmartNews
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Data Scientist on SmartNews’s Ads Data Science team, leading product analytics, A/B testing, causal analysis, and analytical pipelines to guide ad-product decisions across JP and US markets.
Owns security operations and GRC across SmartNews products and infrastructure, building detection and response workflows, assessing AI and security risks, and improving ISMS compliance.
Lead the design and delivery of features that enhance user growth and engagement for the SmartNews app.
Account Executive role focused on strategic domain sales for SmartNews, with the position located in Shibuya, Japan. Further duties and requirements are not specified.
Expand SmartNews Ads adoption and revenue through agency accounts by managing senior relationships, planning proposals and media strategies, analyzing results, and coordinating stakeholders.
SmartNews seeks a Senior Product Manager for New Era, based in Shibuya, Japan. The available posting identifies the position but provides no further responsibilities or requirements.
Research markets, competitors and partners; shape pricing and revenue models, negotiate partnerships, and coordinate cross-functional teams from initial contact through product launch.
Lead annual and quarterly sales planning, forecasting, reporting, dashboard operations, and business analysis using Tableau, Salesforce, Excel or Google Sheets, and SQL.
Analyze advertising delivery data, propose account improvements and KPIs to advertisers and agencies, manage client relationships, and share industry insights with product teams.
Research markets and potential partners, develop new-business models, and lead partnership projects from planning and negotiation through execution.
Manages programmatic ad yield and revenue in Japan across SSPs and DSPs, configures PMP and Preferred Deals, operates Google Ad Manager, and coordinates integrations and troubleshooting.
Lead product marketing for the SmartNews app, defining value propositions and go-to-market plans, coordinating cross-functional launches, and improving user acquisition and engagement through analysis.
Leads Japanese media partnership strategy, executive negotiations, content expansion, product proposals, and data-driven KPI and reporting design with product and engineering teams.
Leads planning and market launches of new advertising solutions, cross-functional growth initiatives, alliances, and CEO-directed projects supporting SmartNews’s domestic advertising business.
Develops business models, pricing and revenue plans for new digital products, closes partnerships, builds a BD team, and leads cross-functional launch initiatives.
Lead client work and strategy formulation using internal data to support execution.
The AI-First Product Designer role at SmartNews focuses on product design for an AI-first product and is based in Shibuya, Japan.
Designs, builds, tests, deploys, and improves end-to-end systems and data pipelines, spanning backend and frontend development, platforms, reliability, and on-call support.
This is a Frontend Software Engineer role in SmartNews's Webtech Frontend area, located in Shibuya, Japan. No further role details are provided in the supplied posting.
The role involves exploring and validating new information experiences, building and improving prototypes using AI coding tools.
Leads the Infrastructure Foundation team in scaling multi-region Kubernetes and network platforms, setting infrastructure roadmaps, improving reliability and delivery, and managing engineers.
Identifies and prioritizes AI use cases across business functions, measures ROI, leads adoption and workflow changes, and moves evaluated tools into secure production.
Design security blueprints and threat models, build automated controls and tool integrations, and lead vulnerability remediation and safe AI adoption across product and corporate environments.
The Software Engineer, Ads Backend role works on backend software for SmartNews advertising-related systems. The position is based in Shibuya, Japan.
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Supports the APAC Ad Business team by tracking sales performance and forecasts, preparing reports, coordinating account setup and invoicing, and assisting clients with data analysis.