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About SmartNews
Advertising pays the bills at SmartNews, a Tokyo-founded news app (2012) that draws stories from more than 3,000 publisher partners, and most of its sales openings serve that ad business. In the US the senior account executive seat, listed in both New York and Palo Alto, is a hunter role: build your own pipeline of net-new brands and agencies through outbound and agency contacts, close native ad campaigns, and carry monthly, quarterly and annual new-account and revenue targets. Tokyo works the other side of the book, with a Strategic Domain Sales account executive who grows spend from existing advertisers and agencies on SmartNews Ads through optimization proposals, KPI design and incentive deals, takes budget share from other media and revives dormant accounts, and a sales operations manager who sets the Japanese ad team's revenue targets, account lists and incentive plans and runs the forecast in Tableau and Salesforce. The remaining three Tokyo seats are business development reporting into the CEO's office: a Strategic Alliances role working partnerships with large players such as the Docomo group, and a manager plus an individual contributor in a new-business division that launched the Wanderland map app in August 2026 and signs content, IP, store, distribution and technology partners for it. Five of the seven sales-titled openings are in Shibuya, Tokyo, and all five ask for business or native Japanese.
Stated by the company
, SalesJobs.Now shows 6 open SmartNews sales roles; 2 of them print a salary figure.
SmartNews sales openings
Board read 5 Nov 2026, 00:10 UTCBusiness Development, New Era (shows the role here)
Partner sales · Shibuya, Japan· 2mo agoDetails
- $127,000–$200,000/yr
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SmartNews as an employer
Tokyo-founded news app company with offices in Osaka, Palo Alto, New York and Singapore, whose sales hiring is mostly in Tokyo around its Japanese ad business and new ventures. Posted pay: Stated per posting (stated by the company).
6 sales openings on its careers board right now6 sales openings at SmartNews, as its own board showed them 5 Nov 2026.
US sellers are on base salary plus bonus with a 401(k) match, up to 100% paid medical, dental and vision for the family, monthly allowances and free meals in the office; the Tokyo postings name statutory Japanese insurance and an annual health check, and the Tokyo account executive works from the office at least three days a week.
Right now its 6 open sales roles are posted in New York (1) and San Francisco (1). Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: US: New York and Palo Alto, California (the senior account executive role in each). Abroad: Shibuya, Tokyo for the other five openings in ad sales, sales operations and business development.
Caveats
- The pay figure is stated by the company: a reference point from research, not a salary read off today's postings, so negotiate from the offer in front of you.
Pay at SmartNews
Stated by the company, checked 2026-10-30From our research: stated by the company, checked 30 Oct 2026
Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: Only the US side prints a number: the New York senior account executive posting offers a $127,000 to $200,000 base plus bonus. None of the five Tokyo postings (account executive, sales operations manager and three business development roles) names a salary; they list an annual health check and Japan's statutory health and social insurance and point to the careers site for the rest. The roles listed below state what SmartNews posts now.
Only 2 of its 6 openings post pay, not enough to call a band typical for SmartNews, so the figure above comes from research. What each sales role posts:
| Sales role | Openings | Pay posted | Top posted |
|---|---|---|---|
| AE | 3 | $127k–$200k/yr1 salary | $200k/yr |
| Partner sales | 2 | No pay posted | None posted |
| RevOps | 1 | No pay posted | None posted |
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Is SmartNews a good company to sell for?
Tokyo-founded news app company with offices in Osaka, Palo Alto, New York and Singapore, whose sales hiring is mostly in Tokyo around its Japanese ad business and new ventures.
Is SmartNews still an active employer?
Yes. Tokyo-founded news app company with offices in Osaka, Palo Alto, New York and Singapore, whose sales hiring is mostly in Tokyo around its Japanese ad business and new ventures. How its pay is structured: US sellers are on base salary plus bonus with a 401(k) match, up to 100% paid medical, dental and vision for the family, monthly allowances and free meals in the office; the Tokyo postings name statutory Japanese insurance and an annual health check, and the Tokyo account executive works from the office at least three days a week.
What does a sales job at SmartNews pay?
Stated per posting. Only the US side prints a number: the New York senior account executive posting offers a $127,000 to $200,000 base plus bonus. None of the five Tokyo postings (account executive, sales operations manager and three business development roles) names a salary; they list an annual health check and Japan's statutory health and social insurance and point to the careers site for the rest.
Is selling for SmartNews worth it?
Posted pay at SmartNews: Stated per posting (stated by the company). Ad and marketplace sales suit reps who sell on results and manage monthly spend targets.
How is SmartNews's sales comp put together?
US sellers are on base salary plus bonus with a 401(k) match, up to 100% paid medical, dental and vision for the family, monthly allowances and free meals in the office; the Tokyo postings name statutory Japanese insurance and an annual health check, and the Tokyo account executive works from the office at least three days a week.
Where are SmartNews's sales roles based?
Right now its 6 open sales roles are posted in New York (1) and San Francisco (1). Read from its postings on 30 Oct 2026: US: New York and Palo Alto, California (the senior account executive role in each). Abroad: Shibuya, Tokyo for the other five openings in ad sales, sales operations and business development.
Weigh SmartNews against
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