PLAINER
Sales Enablement
8open roles
$127kmedian advertised pay
$400Mlatest round · Series A · May 2025 · 17 mo ago
200+team · employees, estimated range
Overview
PLAINER is a software company that works on software enablement through interactive product demos, aiming to make technology as natural to use as water or electricity. It helps SaaS and AI companies convey the value of their products and hires software engineers, GTM engineers, AI product builders and business development representatives. The company is based in Tokyo, Japan.
How PLAINER hires
Truth index
B 75/100
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
100%
Reposted roles
0%
PLAINER scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 5 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 100% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Total raised
$400M
1 round on record
Latest round
$400M
Series A · May 2025 · 17 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
15
+4 posted in 30 days
The money's age
Due for its next round
17 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
26/100
hiring for its size, in the news
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
May 21, 2025
Raised a round Series A $400M · BRIDGE
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
| Round | Date | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | May 2025 | $400M | — | BRIDGE |
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$127k
Typical range
$76k – $159k
Open positions
15
3
Jobs
Architect
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architect | 3 | $159k | $127k – $159k |
Highest paying role
【Biz】VP of Customer Success
$159k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at PLAINER
By role, level and city, against the market · 15 jobs with pay
Growth
Hiring Momentum
33/100
Slowing
Open positions
15
0 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
0%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
30% ▼
AI/ML
20% ▲
Backend
20% ▲
Leadership
20% ▼
Customer Success
10% ▲
Activity Timeline
New location: Japan
Oct 2026
Financials
Total raised
$400M
Latest round
Series A
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Series A | 2025 | $400M | Details |
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at PLAINER over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
16
Postings analysed
7
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Kotlin
TypeScript
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
Ktor
Chakra UI
React.js
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cloud & platforms
GCP
GitHub
AI & ML
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16 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
News
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Tokyo
Tokyo
Japan
HQ
14 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 29% engineering 200-500 est. staff $120k Avg Salary
hires for Sales, AI/ML, Backend