Square Enix

Video Games · Publishing · Entertainment Merchandise · Japan

Square Enix Co., Ltd. is the Square Enix Group’s Japan-based operating company for entertainment products and services. It plans, develops, publishes and sells console, PC, online and mobile games, including the Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Kingdom Hearts and NieR series, for players worldwide.

The company also produces publications and merchandise based on group intellectual property. It earns money through sales and operation of games and other content, publications and related products. The subsidiary’s standalone annual revenue is not publicly disclosed; the parent reports consolidated group results.

Remote or hybrid
21%
Most requested
Common areas
  • Marketing 5
  • Project management 4
  • Finance & accounting 2
  • Sales 2

Measured from the 28 listings Ranked has live for Square Enix. Japanese level, visa signal and skills are AI-graded from each posting and can be wrong — confirm against the employer's original posting before applying.

28

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Japanese (N1)

Sales

Biz Dev

Manage overseas licensing for manga content by coordinating new-business sales, publisher proposals, permission documents, contract checks, and supervision of translated publications and promotional items.

Contract

Japanese (N1)

Gaming

Marketing

Translation

Events

Supports promotion of smartphone and console games in Western markets by coordinating campaigns, events, overseas partners, media responses, promotional materials, and Japanese-English documents.

Full-time

Japanese?

Visa maybe

Remote

Relocation

Backend

Develop and operate shared user-management, account, payment, and web-store platforms supporting multiple F2P and MMO online games. Design scalable systems, tune performance, and maintain reliable service operations.

Full-time

Japanese?

Remote

Accounting

Flextime

Manage sales and cost accounting for games, merchandise, music CDs and royalties, including journal entries, billing, inventory flows, receivables, audits and coordination with business teams.

Full-time

Japanese?

Remote

Recruiting

HR

Flextime

Manage new graduate recruitment from planning internships and company briefings to supporting offer holders. Coordinate with executives and department heads on hiring needs, selection processes, events, recruitment data analysis, and improvement proposals.

Contract

Japanese?

Sales

Manage domestic and international merchandising licenses for comic content, including sales, approvals, contracts, royalties, product samples, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.

Full-time

Japanese?

Remote

Finance

Accounting

Management

Lead financial accounting, closing, audit coordination, disclosures, process improvement, and junior-member development. The role is based in Tokyo with a flextime system and remote-work制度.

Full-time

Japanese?

Marketing

Flextime

Develop and execute strategic corporate communications, media relations, social listening, crisis communications, internal branding, and owned-media initiatives while coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

Contract

Japanese?

Legal

Manage publishing contracts for manga, novels, and books, including drafting requests, document review, negotiations, and coordination with legal, intellectual property, editorial, and external corporate stakeholders.

Contract

Japanese?

Writing

Edits SQEX novels across planning, author and work discovery, development with writers, book publication, manga adaptation supervision, and SQEX Novel Award operations and selection.

Contract

Japanese?

Gaming

Game Dev

Design and implement story, text, battle, map, and other game content for FINAL FANTASY XIV, preparing plans, specifications, data, and balance adjustments for its ongoing MMORPG updates.

Contract

Japanese?

Animation

Gaming

Create character, enemy, cinematic event, and facial animations across game projects including Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, HD original titles, and new mobile titles.

Contract

Japanese?

Gaming

Game Dev

Design the rules, card abilities, effects, balance, and product structure of a trading card game. Plan new mechanics and annual card-pack releases while refining gameplay through testing.

Contract

Japanese?

Python

Unreal

Gaming

Game Art

Create character FX and rigs in Houdini or Maya for cloth, hair, muscles, bodies, and faces. Coordinate with related teams and external staff, check quality, and improve cinematic CG workflows.

Contract

Japanese?

Game Dev

Unity

Unreal

C#

Create and edit sound effects for game development, record and process voices, manage audio assets with authoring tools, and implement them in game engines.

Contract

Japanese?

Social Media

Digital Mkt

Marketing

Events

Plan and manage game-music label projects, digital distribution, promotion, live-event operations, and character merchandise production, coordinating creators, rights, schedules, budgets, and releases.

Contract

JP Native

QA

Gaming

Manage localization quality for game projects by analyzing defects, defining standards, improving release workflows, and coordinating internal teams and external LQA vendors.

Contract

Japanese?

Art Dir

Gaming

Graphic

UI Design

Lead visual concept development for trading card game cards, packaging, UI/UX, and logos; define the art style, manage quality, create key visuals, and lead the art team.

Contract

Japanese?

Writing

Edit and manage comic magazines, web magazines, and manga apps, including planning, discovering artists, developing works, and producing collected volumes.

Contract

Japanese?

Gaming

Game Dev

Project Mgr

Management

Direct the development of a trading card game from concept and world-building through system design, managing schedules, quality, budgets, cross-functional direction, and quality control across art, planning, and project management.

Contract

Japanese?

Gaming

Project Mgr

Manage a trading card game project from planning through release by setting roadmaps, tracking milestones, coordinating dependencies and resources, resolving risks, and working with printers and vendors.

Full-time

Japanese?

Remote

Security

Gaming

Project Mgr

Conduct web application and server vulnerability assessments and security reviews for online games. Coordinate scopes and schedules, report findings, verify remediation, close engagements, and manage external security vendors when required.

Full-time

Japanese?

Remote

SRE

DevOps

Cloud

Perform site reliability engineering for backend systems supporting large-scale online RPGs and other services. Manage cloud infrastructure with IaC, build CI/CD pipelines, improve API performance, define and visualize SLOs, and enhance logging, monitoring, observability, security, and operational automation.