Customer Success Careers in Japan: What 497 Job Postings Ask For

Every figure on this page summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, in aggregate, and is shown the same way to every reader. It is not a description of any individual’s career or prospects.

497
205
60%
44%

What Gets You In

  • 1-2 years of experience

    85

  • 3-4 years of experience

    92

  • 5-9 years of experience

    91

  • 10+ years of experience

    30

21%

32% day-to-day or above

  • Customer Success

    70%

  • SaaS

    50%

  • Project Management

    29%

  • Account Management

    28%

  • Stakeholder Management

    27%

  • Data Analysis

    19%

  • B2B Sales

    14%

  • CRM

    14%

497 postings

Levels by Experience

1–2 years

19%

17% day-to-day or above

85 postings

3–4 years

28%

14% day-to-day or above

  • Stakeholder Management 35% (+15)

  • Salesforce 21% (+14)

  • Project Management 37% (+11)

92 postings

5–9 years

20%

67% day-to-day or above

  • PMP 10%

  • Presentation 19% (+11)

91 postings

10+ years

10%

76% day-to-day or above

  • New Business Development 27% (+22)

  • CRM 27% (+14)

  • Negotiation 13% (+12)

30 postings

Stated Pay

All postings

Median ¥6,900,000 · 221 postings state pay

¥5,800,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥8,500,000

1–2 years

Median ¥6,300,000 · 51 postings state pay

¥5,500,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥7,800,000

3–4 years

Median ¥7,300,000 · 61 postings state pay

¥6,100,000

25th to 75th percentile of stated salaries

¥8,300,000

Working Conditions

120 days

42 postings

32%
32%
  • Fully remote

    35

  • Hybrid

    151

  • On-site

    13

487 postings

What Comes Next

  • People management

    25

  • Senior leadership

    7

  • Specialist track

    7

Employers naming each step, of 26 that name one

Levels by Job Title

Specialist track

  • Entry / new graduate

    7

  • Junior / associate

    7

  • Senior

    36

  • Principal

    2

Management track

  • Team lead

    13

  • Manager

    32

  • Director

    4

Individual-contributor level

52 postings from 33 employers

Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.

These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.

Customer Success · individual-contributor level

45%

English · 42 postings

  • Daily English

    45%

  • Some English

    33%

  • No English stated

    21%

80%

Japanese · 44 postings

  • Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)

    73%

  • Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)

    7%

  • No level stated

    20%

5 years median (middle half 3 to 8.25)

over 32 postings stating a threshold

6% of postings (3)

Manager level

32 postings from 25 employers

Every figure below summarizes job postings tracked on AirTA at this level. It describes what employers asked for in their postings, not any individual.

These figures summarize other postings tracked on AirTA, not this role.

Customer Success · manager level

21%

English · 24 postings

  • Daily English

    21%

  • Some English

    46%

  • No English stated

    33%

89%

Japanese · 27 postings

  • Native/Fluent (Native or JLPT N1)

    78%

  • Professional Working Proficiency (JLPT N2)

    11%

  • No level stated

    11%

5 years median (middle half 3 to 7)

over 21 postings stating a threshold

31% of postings (10)

24 openings are titled as a candidate for this level

Who Is Hiring

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Customer Success career ladder?

A level-by-level summary of what live Customer Success job postings tracked on AirTA ask for. Levels come from job titles (manager, director, senior and so on) and, separately, from the years of experience a posting states. Every figure is a statistic over those postings, refreshed daily.

Where do the numbers come from?

From the job postings AirTA collects from employer career sites and applicant tracking systems. Years of experience, certifications and management experience are read from the posting text; the level is read from the title; pay is the salary the employer stated on the posting. Nothing is estimated for an individual.

Why is there no pay figure at some levels?

A pay band publishes only when at least 30 postings at that level state a salary, and a median only from 10. Senior-level pay is rarely published in Japan, so the honest answer at some levels is no figure rather than a figure borrowed from another level.

What does "candidate for" mean?

Some postings are titled 「マネージャー候補」 or "Manager Candidate": the employer states in the title that the opening is for someone who will grow into that level. The ladder counts those titles as the employer wrote them. It does not predict anyone’s promotion.

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