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Product Owner

MakeLeaps Meguro-ku, Tokyo January 28 2025
  • 💴 ¥5.5M ~ ¥7M annually
  • 🏡
    Fully remote
    From Japan
  • 🗾 Japan residents only
  • 💬
    Business Japanese
    Business English
  • 🧪
    Junior level
    1+ years experience required

About MakeLeaps

MakeLeaps Meguro-ku, Tokyo

SaaS vendor whose products streamline billing processes and other back office tasks for companies and freelancers. Acquired by Ricoh Company, Ltd. in 2018 to bolster their burgeoning digital business.

Key benefits

  • Diverse team
  • Family friendly
  • Flat structure

About the position

We are looking to hire one person for either this position or the Product Manager position. Please refer to both jobs and apply to the one that’s relevant to you.

As a Product Owner you will be responsible for the definition and delivery of specific product features. In this key role you will take on tactical execution of the above as a bridge between customer-facing stakeholders and developers. In this role, you can leverage guidance from senior team members to advance and take on new challenges.

The scope of this role is focused on the planning and delivery of specific product features. Key deliverables include feature proposals and early-stage designs.

Responsibilities

  • Define detailed feature requirements, ensuring alignment with product vision.
  • Act as the voice of the user in technical and UI/UX discussions.
  • Collaborate with UI/UX designers and developers to create intuitive user interfaces and create early-stage designs around user experience and user journeys.
  • Determine feature scope based on user needs, business value and deadlines.
  • Lead cross-functional teams (engineering, design, marketing, support, success, sales) to ensure successful project/feature delivery.
  • Communicate project/feature vision and updates to all stakeholders.
  • Gather feedback and iterate on features post-launch

Requirements

  • 1+ years of experience in product management, design, or development roles
  • Writing and delivering product, feature, or project design proposals
  • At least business-level spoken and written Japanese, for communication with colleagues, customers and partners

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience or familiarity with the SaaS industry
  • Experience with a complex product that has many features, external integrations, and uses
  • Writing and delivering roadmap and product design proposals
  • Experience with B2B software products
  • Prior experience in a similar role in the Japanese IT market
  • Experience in product data analysis
  • Understanding of finance, accounting, and bookkeeping workflows
  • Experience communicating with customer-facing stakeholders

Compensation

¥5,500,000 ~ ¥7,000,000 annually.

Hiring Process

  1. 1

    Initial screening call with HR

  2. 2

    Interview(s) with Product team

  3. 3

    Interview with Development, Marketing, and Design team members

  4. 4

    Interview with CTO

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