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The Japan Business Manager (Finance) drives financial performance, supports strategic planning, and enhances governance across client portfolios and internal operations in a senior finance partnering role.

The Sales Account Manager is responsible for selling products and consulting services, building customer partnerships, and ensuring customer satisfaction while driving product commercialization in the Japanese market.

As an Authentication Specialist, you will monitor and analyze luxury goods authentication, ensure accuracy, and communicate with clients, aiding machine learning efforts.

As a Strategic Research Associate, you will research industries, recruit subject matter experts, and connect them with clients to ensure effective service delivery.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead software development, mentor team members, contribute to system design, and oversee application development life cycles.

Work with sales and customer success to onboard partners, own customer-facing docs and API documentation, implement customer-specific full-stack features, and lead the partner engineering team to scale operations and standards.

As an AI Engineer, you will design and deploy GenAI and Agentic AI solutions, building pipelines and systems across multiple client-specific platforms while engaging with pharma clients in Japan.

Build and activate Ellipsis Labs' presence across Asian crypto markets by mapping traders and market makers, cultivating relationships, executing regional growth strategies, representing the company at events, surfacing market intelligence, and coordinating with the broader team.

Lead backend architecture and build scalable, high-concurrency services and APIs (Node.js) powering web and mobile. Own components end-to-end, manage CI/CD and infrastructure (IaC, containers, cloud), improve reliability, and collaborate with PM/design to deliver core features like live interactions and checkout.