Bilingual Engineering Manager

Join a fast-growing SaaS product team as a Bilingual Engineering Manager, helping scale the engineering organization. You’ll be focused on people leadership, improving team performance and growth, recruiting, resource allocation, and organizational systems like OKRs. This is not a hands-on coding role, but you must have strong technical judgment across reliability, security, scalability, and cost to support decision-making

Responsibilities

• Engineering Team Leadership
  • Manage and support engineering teams of 20–30 members including tech leads
  • Improve team health, engagement, and workload balance
  • Conduct regular one-on-ones and support career growth
  • Lead performance evaluations and promotion processes
  • Foster transparent collaboration across Japanese and English teams
• Hiring and Recruiting
  • Define role requirements and candidate profiles
  • Improve recruiting processes and interview quality
  • Enhance candidate experience and support offer negotiations
  • Build scalable and predictable hiring systems
• Resource and Budget Management
  • Allocate headcount, time, and budget effectively
  • Manage vendors and external partners
  • Evaluate tools to improve engineering productivity, including AI tools
• Organizational Execution and OKRs
  • Lead engineering OKR planning and alignment with company strategy
  • Improve cross-team execution and dependency management
  • Identify bottlenecks and drive process improvements
• Technical Leadership Support
  • Support roadmap decisions and technical trade-offs
  • Prioritize technical debt based on business impact
  • Promote quality and reliability improvements through data and postmortems

Requirements

• Business-level Japanese and English
• 5+ years of engineering management experience
• 3+ years of recruiting experience
• 5+ years of web service development experience
• Proven track record improving team performance
• Strong decision-making skills in ambiguous environments

Nice to haves

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

• Experience managing distributed or multinational teams
• Experience setting and managing OKRs
• Vendor and contract management experience
• Experience partnering closely with Product Managers

Compensation

¥9,000,000 ~ ¥13,000,000 annually.