Monitor news and judge urgency, then curate SmartNews articles, send push notifications, update related-page links, review content quality, perform light writing, and submit editorial data.
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.
Its business lines are the news app, the SmartNews+ subscription, the Wanderland AI map app and SmartNews Ads, which lets advertisers reach users inside the app. The company has offices in Tokyo, Osaka, Palo Alto, New York and Singapore. 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
- 8%
- Remote or hybrid
- 8%
- Most requested
- Generative AI / LLM 10
- SQL 4
- Python 3
- AWS 2
- Kubernetes 2
- Docker 1
- JLPT N2 6
- JLPT N1 1
- Native Japanese 6
- Japanese posting, level unstated 11
- No Japanese level detected 1
- Common areas
- Business development 4
- Marketing 4
- Operations 4
- Sales 4
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open positions at SmartNews
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The Senior Accountant will manage financial reporting, compliance, and accounting processes for SmartNews and its subsidiaries.
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.
Account Executive role focused on strategic domain sales for SmartNews, with the position located in Shibuya, Japan. Further duties and requirements are not specified.
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.
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.
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.
Supports purchasing, contract, and payment workflows by checking requests, managing data in Jira and NetSuite, coordinating with internal teams, handling inquiries, and improving process documentation.
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.
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.
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.
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Supports major agency-managed campaigns for SmartNews Ads, using delivery data and KPI planning to improve advertising performance, grow agency sales, and develop advertiser and agency relationships.
Monitors news, video and comment content, analyzes quality issues, and develops policies and moderation processes. The role also introduces AI-assisted workflows and supports moderator training.
Leads integrated marketing for the SmartNews app, directing major offline campaigns, social and PR activation, team management, cross-functional delivery and data-led ROI optimization.
Supports the Media Research Institute through information gathering and translated summaries, event operations, and assistance with media-literacy materials, alongside research on news and society.
Build and modernize shared foundations for SmartNews' iOS and Android apps, improving architecture, reliability, performance, CI/CD, and developer tools so mobile teams can ship features more safely.