Senior Frontend Engineer

Senior Technical Lead

Reaktor

ABOUT REAKTOR Reaktor is a global creative technology partner that helps industry leaders build a better future. Founded in Finland, we combine premium software engineering, strategic design, and robust data capabilities to solve high-stakes business challenges for global brands like Adidas and Finnair, as well as major enterprises in Japan. At Reaktor, we have no traditional hierarchy or middle management. We operate on a foundation of absolute trust, immense autonomy, and a shared passion for high-quality engineering. OUR CULTURE & PHILOSOPHY * Autonomy & Responsibility: Two sides of the same coin. We don't manage people; we trust you to think and act independently to make the best decisions. However, this high degree of freedom means you take full ownership and responsibility for the outcomes. * "Do first, apologize later": We value action over hesitation. Instead of waiting for a perfect plan while stalling progress, we encourage experimenting, taking the initiative, and learning fast from the results. THE ROLE: SENIOR TECHNICAL LEAD As a Senior Technical Lead at Reaktor Japan, you will be the cornerstone of our engineering excellence and agile delivery. You will work closely with our clients, leading cross-functional teams to architecture and implement robust, scalable systems. We are a technology-agnostic company—we don’t stick to a single stack. Instead, we select the best tools for the specific business problem. You will cross boundaries between frontend, backend, and DevOps as required by the project. OUR RECENT TECH STACKS & TOOLS: * Web: TypeScript, React * Mobile: iOS (Swift + UIKit/SwiftUI) * Backend: Node.js, Golang, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx * Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP, Akamai, Terraform, Jenkins * Tools: Git/GitHub, Miro, Docker WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR * Language Proficiency: Native or native-level Japanese fluency is mandatory. Deep understanding of Japanese business culture and high-context communication styles is required to lead client-facing engagements successfully. (Professional English proficiency is a big plus for collaborating with our global teams). * Deep Architectural & Code Understanding: A proven track record of knowing what constitutes high-quality design and clean code, combined with hands-on implementation skills. * Continuous Learning Mindset: A proactive drive to learn new technologies independently and constantly update your skill set. * Strongly Preferred Skills: * Deep understanding or experience with Functional Programming. * Capability to design complex system architectures. * Experience in advanced test design (Unit, Integration, E2E). WHAT WE OFFER * True Autonomy: The freedom to shape your own career, choose your tools, and drive projects forward without being micromanaged. * Impactful Work: Opportunities to lead high-stakes digital transformations for major local and global brands. * Premium Environment: A modern, collaborative office space in Ebisu, Tokyo. * Comprehensive Benefits: 20 days of paid annual leave, comprehensive health insurance, mental health and multi-lingual counseling support, and continuous learning budgets. OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS (WHAT TO EXPECT) 1. Casual Sync: An introductory chat to share mutual expectations. 2. Attitude & Soft Skills Interview: A conversational dive conducted by the Japan team (in Japanese) focusing on cultural alignment, autonomy, and collaboration styles. 3. Technical Round / Design Assignment: An interactive, workshop-style architectural discussion with two of our local developers. 4. Final Round (Business & Tech Deep-Dive): A scenario-based tech session with Finland's Business Unit Lead Consultants and the CEO of Reaktor Japan. 5. Closing / Offer Session

Customer Enablement Manager (Tokyo, Japan)

Figma

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! As a Customer Enablement Manager, you’ll work directly with some of our largest customers to help them get the most value from the Figma platform. You'll design and deliver tailored enablement strategies that drive product adoption, help uncover new use cases, and support long-term success. In this highly collaborative role, you’ll partner with various internal teams such as Account Executives, Onboarding Managers, Technical Account Managers, and Industry Advocates to deliver a seamless and impactful customer experience to deliver thoughtful, engaging experiences for our customers. Your ability to build strong relationships, connect the dots between product features and customer goals, and communicate with clarity will make you a trusted advisor and strategic partner. If you’re passionate about helping customers thrive, enjoy solving complex problems, and love working at the intersection of product and customer success, we’d love to meet you. WHAT YOU’LL DO AT FIGMA: * Manage the adoption journey for a portfolio of large, strategic customers * Understand customer goals and success metrics, and use product data to inform proactive engagement strategies that lead to measurable value delivery * Document proactive engagement strategies as part of high quality, bespoke enablement plans * Share best practices, use cases, and product expertise to help teams unlock the full value of Figma * Build trusted relationships with stakeholders across roles and departments - from individual contributors to senior leaders * Collaborate with Account Executives on account reviews, expansion opportunities, and renewal risk migration * Deliver live and scalable training sessions customized to customer maturity and needs * Partner cross-functionally with Onboarding Managers, Technical Account Managers, Solutions Consultants, and Industry Advocates to ensure customer success WE’D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE: * 3+ years of experience in Technical Account Management, Technical Customer Success, Customer Success, Customer Enablement, Account Management or a relevant customer-facing role in SaaS * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to connect with a wide range of customer personas * Strong product knowledge and a customer-first, consultative approach to solving challenges and driving adoption * A track record of driving impactful outcomes, adapting to evolving customer needs, and collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams WHILE IT’S NOT REQUIRED, IT’S AN ADDED PLUS IF YOU ALSO HAVE: * Experience using Figma or working with design and collaboration tools * Background in UX/UI, Design Ops, or Frontend Development At Figma, one of our values is Grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. At Figma we celebrate and support our differences. We know employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences, and opinions allows our employees, our product and our community to flourish. Figma is an equal opportunity workplace - we are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity/expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We will work to ensure individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to apply for a role, participate in the interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. If you require accommodation, please reach out to accommodations-ext@figma.com. These modifications enable an individual with a disability to have an equal opportunity not only to get a job, but successfully perform their job tasks to the same extent as people without disabilities.  Examples of accommodations include but are not limited to:  * Holding interviews in an accessible location * Enabling closed captioning on video conferencing * Ensuring all written communication be compatible with screen readers * Changing the mode or format of interviews  To ensure the integrity of our hiring process and facilitate a more personal connection, we require all candidates keep their cameras on during video interviews. Additionally, if hired you will be required to attend in person onboarding. By applying for this job, the candidate acknowledges and agrees that any personal data contained in their application or supporting materials will be processed in accordance with Figma's Candidate Privacy Notice.

WPP Production | Interactive Project Director, Japan

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   THE COMPANY: About WPP Production We are WPP Production - the unified global production company that brings together all of WPP's content producers, studios and craft experts into one connected organisation. We combine world-class human craft with next generation technology to originate, design, and deliver multi-channel content systems at scale. Built for borderless collaboration and powered by deep craft expertise, we are the production engine designed for today's always on, AI driven marketing world.  About WPP WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com. #L THE ROLE: We are looking for a passionate leader and technical champion for the creation of rich front-end experiences. You will manage a team of HTML5, Javascript, CSS developers and be ultimately responsible for the clients’ technical delivery. You have an in-depth knowledge of current and emerging front-end technologies and can work with server-side technical leads to create and integrate complex client-side applications. You will have a clear idea of what ‘good’ looks like, and be able to communicate best practice to your colleagues and fellow project members. You will work with WPP Production and partner organisations to define the optimum technical approach for client projects and ceaselessly promote best practice, quality and craft in your code and the code of those you lead. Strong communication skills, including the ability to listen, understand, advocate, and persuade are essential as you will represent your practice in client and internal senior stakeholder meetings. You will Provide technical thought leadership and promote the vision, strategy and services of the digital department to both educate our teams within WPP Production and to be seen as a leading figure in the industry. Define our distributed development strategy and processes across our onshore, offshore and remote teams, including identifying and developing key strategic technology partnerships. You will manage a team of highly skilled developers ranging from Graduate to Senior level, implementing and maintaining development practices, running meetings and workshops that ensure the growth, motivation and continued development of the team, and ultimately take responsibility for the quality of your team’s output. The team needs to build/modify responsive web pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc. based on the visual briefs. You will work closely with other discipline leads (QA/PM) to ensure scoping, estimates, and requirements are estimated correctly and delivered with minimal errors. You must be enthusiastic about technology and constantly be looking at the next innovation. On top of possessing strong oral, interpersonal, and organizational abilities, you must be able to work in a fast paced environment. Flexibility and tolerance is a necessity.   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: * Co-ordinating with leads across key delivery teams (Tech, Project Management, QA, and Resource Management) * Ensure compliance with Hogarth production processes * Acting as the point of escalation for project issues raised by team leads, resolving problems quickly and communicating effectively * Coaching and developing the team in their roles with regular performance reviews to ensure success in their personal development * Manage the team hiring and keeping briefs clear and consistently updated * Interviewing candidates for the team and taking responsibility for the approval of freelancers to work in a fast paced and reactive environment * Set and manage client expectations while coordinating and ensuring all parties follow the agreed workflows * Build strong, trusting relationships with all key stakeholders, function leads, cross-functional project managers, senior managers, and third-party vendors that are directly involved with the work * Manage the approval of quarterly budgets, flagging important budget fluctuations to the client and line manager * Draft, prepare and present timelines, documents, and presentations and reports both to the client and to the team * Ensure that the line manager is always aware of all client issues and proposed solutions (including potential delays) to ensure swift resolution and avoid further escalation * Ensure your account consistently delivers against all contractual obligations including SLAs and KPIs * Act as a brand QC/Guardian – always ensure brand guidelines, QC checklists and procedures are followed * Keep GAD and FD informed of any circumstances which would positively or negatively affect forecasts * teamwork, create balanced work schedule and ensure people are able to deliver results * Identify training requirements for team members to ensure their adherence to processes and workflow * Plan resources for overseas projects and inform talent manager and line manager of new recruitment needs * Plan, prepare and implement the induction of new starters   REQUIREMENTS: * A minimum of 12 years Project Management experience background, of which 2 years are leading a team * Experience of leading innovation, leveraging emerging platforms and quickly facilitating new ideas and platforms to market * Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills * Know-how in working cross-functionally to build relationships between business units, technology, product, media, agency, and design teams * Experience working on international initiatives - ideally with exposure to emerging markets * Self-motivated and a self-starter * Very high competence in project management software such as Microsoft Project and Omniplan * Extensive experience in costing, quotations and project scope definition * Excellent communication skills to different target groups within the project team, management and clients * Ensure understanding of the contractual obligations, commercial arrangements and SLAs of the accounts and ensure specific details are understood by the wider team where relevant * Analytical and detailed in project documentation, accountability, and tracking * Pragmatic, team player with excellent written and verbal communication skills * Understanding of brands and brand challenges * The ability to function productively in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment * High level of IT literacy, including use of spreadsheets * Strong numeracy skills * Support GAD/CSD and FD in revenue forecasting on an ongoing basis * Keep GAD/CSD and FD informed of any circumstances which would positively or negatively affect forecasts * Ensure full compliance with all financial procedure and policies * Prioritization, time management and attention to detail * Resilience and ability to work under pressure * Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, in both Japanese and English * Strong interpersonal skills * Highly organised, detail oriented, customer focused, and proactive * Possess technical understanding of mobile and web technologies necessary to run projects and convey details. Examples would be: * iOS and Android development * Cloud computing * HTML5/CSS/JavaScript * ecommerce/Shopping Carts * Social Media Strategies/Platforms * Familiarity with creative production and development tools is always an advantage. Such software includes Adobe Creative Suite, BBEdit, SVN, GitHub, Eclipse, Dreamweaver, Final Cut Pro and others. In addition, familiarity with mobile and web platforms and ecosystems would also be advantageous * Must be able to travel as required, sometimes for several weeks at a time I-DNP We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.