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.
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
- Python 3
- Google Cloud 2
- Kubernetes 2
- AWS 1
- Docker 1
- Git 1
- JLPT N1 2
- Native Japanese 1
- Japanese posting, level unstated 25
- Common areas
- Marketing 5
- Project management 4
- Finance & accounting 2
- Sales 2
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28
open positions at Square Enix
Supports promotion of smartphone and console games in Western markets by coordinating campaigns, events, overseas partners, media responses, promotional materials, and Japanese-English documents.
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.
Plan, operate, analyze, and improve digital advertising for game apps, including Google Ads. Manage campaign strategy, budgets, media coordination, measurement integrations, and reporting.
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.
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.
Manage domestic and international merchandising licenses for comic content, including sales, approvals, contracts, royalties, product samples, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
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.
Lead corporate communications strategy, media relations, crisis communication, internal branding and digital content while managing a communications team and coordinating with executives and global stakeholders.
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.
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.
Edits SQEX novels across planning, author and work discovery, development with writers, book publication, manga adaptation supervision, and SQEX Novel Award operations and selection.
Plans and develops figures, plastic models, and character merchandise, managing concepts, specifications, creators, factories, quality, schedules, costs, contracts, samples, events, and promotional support.
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.
Create character, enemy, cinematic event, and facial animations across game projects including Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, HD original titles, and new mobile titles.
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.
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.
Plan and develop official merchandise based on Square Enix game IP, coordinating design, production, quality checks, suppliers, schedules, and launches.
Create and edit sound effects for game development, record and process voices, manage audio assets with authoring tools, and implement them in game engines.
Plan and manage game-music label projects, digital distribution, promotion, live-event operations, and character merchandise production, coordinating creators, rights, schedules, budgets, and releases.
Manage localization quality for game projects by analyzing defects, defining standards, improving release workflows, and coordinating internal teams and external LQA vendors.
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.
Edit and manage comic magazines, web magazines, and manga apps, including planning, discovering artists, developing works, and producing collected volumes.
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.
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.
Design promotional materials for comics, books, and magazines, while managing schedules, print-data checks, revisions, and coordination with editors, printers, and designers.
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.
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.