List of Full Remote Roles: Hiring Trends by Role

Choose full remote roles by “hiring trend”

Full remote (in principle, no office attendance) is not possible for every job. The roles with many openings are those “where work is completed with just a PC and the internet,” and jobs where deliverables and data can be handed over online attract more fully remote openings. Conversely, roles that require on-site handling—customer service, manufacturing, healthcare, logistics—tend to be difficult for full remote. So when choosing a role, checking not only “do I want to do it” but also how many full remote openings the role has (the hiring trend) is the shortcut to a successful career change.

For the definition of full remote itself and its pros and cons, see What Is Full Remote? A Thorough Guide to Jobs, Roles, and Benefits.

List of roles with many full remote jobs [hiring trend by role]

Here we introduce representative roles with relatively many full remote openings, along with their hiring trend, required skills, and rough expected salary. Salaries are only general guides and vary by experience, skill, and company.

Engineer / programmer

Development and implementation are easy to complete online, making this one of the roles with the most full remote openings. Centered on web and SaaS companies, both fully remote full-time and contract openings are plentiful. In terms of hiring trend, demand for experienced professionals is especially high, and skills in languages and frameworks are valued. The rough expected salary is in the 4–7 million yen range—high among these roles—and you can aim higher depending on your skills.

Web designer / UI designer

Because design data can be shared and revised online, this role pairs well with full remote. In terms of hiring trend, there are remote openings at both production companies and in-house teams, and tool experience such as Figma and a portfolio are valued. The rough expected salary is around 3.5–5.5 million yen, and it tends to rise if you can be involved in upstream UI/UX work.

Web marketer / ad operations

Centered on data analysis and campaign operations, and able to show results in numbers, this role is seeing more full remote openings. There are openings by specialty such as SEO, ad operations, and social media, and in terms of hiring trend, a track record of results and operational experience are valued. The rough expected salary is in the 4–6 million yen range, rising with the scale of the operating budget or management experience.

Writer / editor

With an internet connection you can work anywhere, and it is a role you can aim at even without experience. In terms of hiring trend, many start from contract or side-job work, and there are also full-time full remote editorial roles. Experience in SEO writing or interviewing and editing tends to raise your rates and salary; the rough expected salary is around 3–5 million yen (contract work depends on volume).

Online admin / online assistant

With the shift of back-office work online, this role has expanding remote openings. You handle scheduling, document creation, data management, and more; in terms of hiring trend, there are many openings that welcome inexperience or offer short-hours or part-time work. The rough expected salary is around 3–4 million yen, and contract or part-time formats tend to be central rather than full-time.

Data entry

Centered on simple tasks, this is a job that is easy to start remotely and without experience. In terms of hiring trend, there are many one-off or short-term remote projects, and full-time openings are limited. Pay is mainly per-character or per-item, so income is proportional to the volume of work—making it well suited as a first step to build a full remote track record.

Back office such as accounting and HR

With the spread of cloud accounting and labor-management tools, accounting, HR, and labor affairs have become easier to complete remotely. In terms of hiring trend, demand centers on experienced professionals, and specific experience such as monthly closing or payroll is required. The rough expected salary is around 3.5–5.5 million yen, and qualifications or specialist experience tend to be valued.

Hiring trends for customer success and customer support full remote jobs

Among full remote jobs, customer success (CS) and customer support are currently drawing high attention. Both are easy to complete online, and against the backdrop of growing SaaS companies, fully remote openings are increasing.

Hiring trend for customer success full remote jobs

Customer success is a role that proactively supports customers after adoption so they can master your service and achieve results. Because it centers on online meetings, chat, and email, it pairs extremely well with full remote, and fully remote openings are expanding, mainly at SaaS companies. In terms of hiring trend, experience in customer negotiation and proposals and the ability to find issues based on data are valued, and career changers from sales or customer-facing roles tend to be welcomed. The rough expected salary is in the 4–6 million yen range, and it tends to rise with a track record of improving churn or upselling.

Hiring trend for customer support full remote jobs

Customer support is a role that responds to customer inquiries via chat, email, and phone. Because the work is completed online, there are many remote openings, and in terms of hiring trend, openings that welcome inexperience are relatively common. Careful communication, typing speed, and accuracy in handling multiple tools are valued; the rough expected salary is around 3–4.5 million yen. There is also a career path of first gaining experience in support and then stepping up to customer success.

How to aim for customer success or support without experience

Customer-facing experience gained in retail, sales, or admin can be applied in customer success and support. If you have no experience, a realistic approach is to first enter customer support, which has many remote openings, get used to customer handling and SaaS tools, and then aim for customer success. If you can concretely show your online communication skills in your résumé and interviews, you move closer to a full remote offer.

Roles with few or difficult full remote jobs

On the other hand, some roles are difficult for full remote by nature and have few openings. Know the trend before applying.

• Roles requiring on-site or face-to-face work: Customer service, sales, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, caregiving, childcare, and the like assume on-site work or face-to-face handling, so full remote is almost nonexistent.
• Roles handling confidential info or equipment: Work that can only be done on specific equipment or internal systems tends to be hard to move remote.
• Management-centered roles: Positions that manage teams or on-site operations tend to become hybrid arrangements requiring some office attendance.

Tips for aiming at full remote roles without experience

If you aim at full remote without experience, the shortcut is to start with roles that have many remote openings and are easy to enter. Data entry, online admin, customer support, writer, and the like have relatively many openings that welcome inexperience, letting you build a track record while raising your skills. First get used to basic PC operations and online tools, and build small results through crowdsourcing to move closer to being hired.

For the work content and required skills of remote work that is easy to start even without experience, see List of Remote Work Roles: Jobs That Are Easy to Start Even Without Experience.

How to find full remote jobs

Full remote jobs are increasing, but they tend to be buried among on-site listings and hard to find. The basics are to combine job sites, recruitment agents, and full-remote-specialized services, and to search by narrowing roles with multiple terms such as “full remote,” “fully remote,” and “work from home.” See How to Find Full Remote Jobs: Key Points and Cautions for Spotting the Right Ones for channel-by-channel search methods, and Recommended Remote Work Job Sites: How to Choose and Search for how to choose a job site.

Frequently asked questions about full remote roles

Q. Which role has the most full remote jobs?

Engineer / programmer. Development is easy to complete online, and fully remote openings are plentiful, mainly at web and SaaS companies. Next, IT and web roles such as web designer, web marketer, and writer have many full remote openings.

Q. Can customer success work full remote?

Yes. Because customer success centers on online meetings, chat, and email, it pairs well with full remote, and fully remote openings are increasing, mainly at SaaS companies. Experience in customer negotiation and data-analysis skills give you an advantage in hiring.

Q. Which full remote roles can I get without experience?

Data entry, online admin, online assistant, customer support, and writer are roles with relatively many full remote openings that welcome inexperience. A realistic approach is to first build a track record remotely, then expand into engineering, marketing, customer success, and so on while raising your specialist skills.

Q. Which roles are difficult for full remote?

Roles that assume on-site work or face-to-face handling—customer service, sales, manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, caregiving, childcare, and the like—have almost no full remote openings. Work using specific equipment or internal systems, and on-site management roles, also tend to be hard to move remote.

Summary: choose full remote by understanding each role’s hiring trend

Full remote roles have more openings the more the work is completed with a PC and the internet; representative examples are engineers, web designers, web marketers, writers, and online admin. In recent years, with the spread of SaaS, fully remote openings for customer success and customer support have also increased. On the other hand, roles requiring on-site handling are difficult for full remote, so it is important to choose by understanding the hiring trend of the role you want. If you have no experience, build a track record from roles that are easy to enter and find the full remote job that fits you.

See also List of Remote Work Roles: Jobs That Are Easy to Start Even Without Experience for remote work roles overall, and What Is Full Remote? A Thorough Guide to Jobs, Roles, and Benefits for the basics of full remote.