Project Manager (HR Tech)

Givery Shibuya, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥7M ~ ¥10M annually
  • 🏡 Fully remote (within Japan)
  • 🧪 5+ years experience required
  • 💬 Business Japanese
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan
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About Givery

Givery Shibuya, Tokyo

Givery aims to provide the missing link that our clients need to scout, hire, and train world-class engineers. We are profitable, privately owned, and our clients include some of the biggest names in the Japanese tech and gaming industry.

Key benefits

  • Awesome tech
  • Work-life balance
  • Work remotely or come to the office

About the position

We are looking for a skilled Project Manager to help us expand Track, a platform that helps companies evaluate and train technical engineering skills.

Responsibilities

  • Act as Project Manager and Scrum Master in a diverse, Japanese and English bilingual development team.
  • Define and manage project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
  • Establish a communication strategy to update stakeholders on the progress of the project.
  • Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
  • Perform risk management to mitigate potential threats, optimize opportunities, and safeguard organizational objectives.
  • Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, stakeholders, designers, and other development teams to align goals and deliverables.
  • Oversee design, development, and testing to meet quality standards, best practices, and customer requirements.
  • Continuously improve engineering processes and tools for increased efficiency, quality, and overall productivity.

Requirements

  • A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering projects, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role
  • Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a culturally diverse team
  • A proven track record of managing successful projects
  • Business level proficiency in Japanese
    • If you have a Certified Scrum Master qualification, N2 level Japanese is acceptable

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

  • Working knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies with a focus of maximizing value output (e.g., minimum viable product)
  • Professional software engineering experience
  • Experience building new processes and building project teams from zero

Compensation

7 to 10 million JPY annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Team lead call

    A 30 minute call with the team’s leader.

  2. 2

    Online exam

    An exam via our skill check platform Track Test.

  3. 3

    Team interview

    Usually 3 rounds over 2-3 hours with people you’ll work with.

  4. 4

    Management interview

  5. 5

    Offer!

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Meet Givery's Developers

John Joe, a backend engineer at Givery, explains how the company’s relaxed culture allows developers to drive the product forward, giving them autonomy to pursue tasks like refactoring that don’t directly deliver immediate business value.

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Since joining Givery’s HR Tech division as an engineering manager two years ago, Wil Andrade has helped scale their engineering team from nine to twenty-four engineers. Wil shares how he's not only grown a team, but provided an environment where no one wants to quit.

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Ryoko started her career as a typical Japanese office worker, but went through a dramatic career change, joining Givery as a Frontend Engineer where she speaks almost exclusively in English.

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