Product Manager

Micoworks Minato-ku, Tokyo
  • 💴 ¥6M ~ ¥16M annually
  • 🏡 Partially remote
  • 🧪 3+ years experience required
  • 💬 Conversational Japanese
  • 🌏 Apply from abroad
  • 🧳 Relocate to Japan
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About Micoworks

Micoworks Minato-ku, Tokyo

We offer multiple products that deliver conversational experiences, including MicoCloud, a platform that is used by over 1,000 clients to reach over 29 million people.

Key benefits

  • A growing company in a growing market
  • Open and inclusive communication
  • Team over self

About the position

Building on the robust customer base of “MicoCloud,” which boasts a retention rate exceeding 99%, and a business environment poised for expansion into multiple adjacent domains, you will have the opportunity to focus entirely on creating exceptional products.

This is supported by an organizational framework featuring a sales team with strong proposal planning capabilities and a customer success (CS) team committed to achieving client outcomes.

You will leverage this environment to engage in the development and progress management of either the existing “MicoCloud” product or new product initiatives.

Our company has established a global development framework, and collaboration with engineers at our Japan, India, and Philippines offices is currently accelerating.

As a result, there is a growing need for a bilingual (Japanese and English) Product Manager (PdM) who can lead product development effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Realizing and Driving Business Strategy
    • Execution Planning
    • Driving tasks based on strategic objectives.
    • Promoting development in a high-uncertainty environment.
    • Strategic Understanding
    • Understanding SaaS strategy.
    • Grasping the business (sales) strategy.
  • Defining ‘What We Should Build’
    • New Products
      • Managing the 0→1 product cycle, from identifying customer challenges to conceptualizing new products (why, what), breaking them down into
      • MVPs, and planning Go-to-Market strategies. (Note: We’ll discuss our current concepts and ideas during the interview process.)
    • Existing Products
      • Creating product roadmaps and planning, implementing, and launching new features to strengthen our competitive Moat.
  • Managing Product Quality
    • Managing 1→10 and 10→100 product growth to amplify the value provided by the product.
    • When necessary, engaging in hiring, team building, and coordinating with stakeholders to support product development efforts.

Requirements

  • Over 3 years of experience as a Product Manager.
  • Conversational Japanese ability

Nice to haves

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

  • Experience in web application development.
  • Prior experience working at a startup.

Compensation

6 to 16 million JPY annually.

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