Great companies hiring UX/UI designers in Tokyo

This is a piece by Brainster, a platform for education helping you future-proof your career.

Having UX/UI Design skills is definitely one of the best career decisions of today. It is a creative, yet change-making profession, that has a huge impact on the way we consume and view the tech of today.

The users’ experience is an important factor in the success of many companies — even huge ones, with a decade-long experience and important clientele.

It comes as no surprise that so many big players in tech are constantly employing new UX designers. The Tokyo tech scene is not exempt from this — there are a lot of companies on the lookout for UX designers now.

Here is a selection of companies of different industries, backgrounds, and experience, currently hiring in the Japanese capital:

Reaktor

Reaktor is a Finnish company, also operating in Tokyo. They have a wide palette of services, specializing in product design, mobile applications, service design, software development, and of course, UX design.

They pride themselves in strategy, design, creative, high-performance engineering, and unmatched execution.

A company with “global reach, a Nordic touch, a boutique approach, and an exceptional ability to scale and take on projects of any caliber”.

Tigerspike

Tigerspike is a global digital service company, focusing on experience design and software development.

Their mission is to blend technology with human expertise to drive measurable business outcomes for their customers and to create digital experiences that people love to use.

Tigerspike has teams in 10 global offices, and have a portfolio built in the course of more than 16 years. Since 2017 they are a part of the Concentrix family.

Trend Micro

Trend Micro is the winner of 2019 Global Technology Partner of the Year for Security, an award that recognizes our outstanding success in the previous year. It is based in Japan, but a global leader in cybersecurity. It helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Leveraging over 30 years of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro enables resilience for businesses, governments, and consumers.

With over 6,700 employees in 65 countries, and the world’s most advanced global threat research and intelligence, Trend Micro enables organizations to secure their connected world.

Ogilvy

Ogilvy has been in the business for a long, long time — way before technology changed the world. It’s founder, David Ogilvy, opened this company in 1948, and they have been producing a culturally influential campaign. They have clients that are part of the Fortune Global 500 companies, as well as local businesses across 131 offices in 83 countries.

Rakuten

In Japanese, “Rakuten” means “optimism”. And they were right to get an optimistic name — Rakuten is now the biggest eCommerce company in Japan, and third-biggest e-commerce marketplace company worldwide. It was founded in 1997, and has an HQ in Tokyo, with more than 17.000 employees in their offices around the world. Their 70+ businesses span e-commerce, digital content, communications, and FinTech, and have more than 1.2 billion members across the world.

ChatBook

The smallest company of our selection is also quite young, compared to the other giants on this list. But, it has a niche market — it provides marketing automation based on Messenger bots, which enables us to convey conversation into conversions.

They are based in Tokyo and have investments from Salesforce Ventures, East Ventures, and Yahoo Japan Capital.

Avanade

With 20 years of experience, this US company has offices in Japan too. They are the leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions, and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.

With 38,000 professionals is 24 countries, they are the power behind the Accenture Microsoft Business Group, helping companies to engage customers, empower employees, optimize operations, and transform products, leveraging the Microsoft platform.

BCG Digital Ventures

BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm. Founded in 2014, they have seven major Innovation and Investment Centers in Manhattan Beach, Tokyo, Berlin, London, New York, Sydney, and Shanghai and several Labs, or satellite locations, including Silicon Valley and Seattle, with more locations opening in the coming quarters.

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