For this role, we are looking for an Engineering Manager for the Money Forward Expense product team who can lead development teams toward strategic product goals, navigate ambiguity, and solve complex technical and organizational challenges. Leveraging your past experience in engineering organization management and service development, you will assume the following roles and responsibilities across the entire Money Forward Cloud Expense product engineering organization:
Responsibilities
- Product Delivery
- Translate department and company business goals into actionable development phases and concrete steps; define success metrics/KPIs to track progress and ensure execution.
- Identify resource requirements, recruit or acquire needed resources, and allocate them effectively across teams.
- Proactively step in and adjust direction when ongoing initiatives no longer align with business goals or customer needs.
- Technical Strategy & Leadership
- Strategically participate in technical discussions, decisions, and feedback to ensure technical strategies align with organizational goals.
- Continuously improve development processes and environments by adopting industry best practices to enhance product quality and team productivity.
- Demonstrate strong leadership during system incidents, guiding teams toward rapid resolution and effective post-mortems/prevention measures.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Influence partner teams and cross-department stakeholders to resolve conflicts of interest and manage ambiguity.
- Drive mutual understanding and consensus among non-engineering stakeholders from a broader business and organizational perspective.
- Maintain transparency across team and project statuses, delivering timely updates to key stakeholders.
- Team Building
- Instill company MVVC (Mission, Vision, Value, Culture) principles into everyday team operations and behaviors.
- Cultivate a psychologically safe environment where team members feel confident sharing ideas and growing.
- Welcome diverse talent into the organization and build an environment where everyone can thrive.
- Talent Development & Recruitment
- Identify capability gaps and systematically recruit or upskill talent to build strong team capabilities.
- Actively participate in and drive the recruiting process to achieve hiring targets.
- Build a culture of continuous learning where team members share knowledge and grow together.
- Mentor high-potential team members and cultivate future leaders and successors.
- AI & Innovation
- Proactively explore and drive AI adoption and data utilization to elevate project outcomes and team productivity.
Requirements
- Experience in development team leadership or engineering management (including recruiting, performance evaluation, and team member development).
- Experience managing multiple teams or a developer organization of 10+ people.
- Hands-on experience developing and operating web services.
- Proven track record of reaching consensus with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Product Managers, Business Operations).
- Proven ability to define strategy and drive execution in ambiguous, unstructured environments.
- Conversational level Japanese (equivalent to JLPT N3 or above)
- Basic business level English (equivalent to TOEIC 700 or above)
Nice to haves
While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.
- Experience managing multi-national or global engineering teams.
- Experience with budget planning and resource allocation for engineering organizations.
- Experience embedding SLO/availability design and incident response processes into team culture.
- Experience driving AI adoption or leveraging data-driven decision-making within engineering teams.
- Hands-on development experience with Ruby on Rails.
- Practical experience working in Scrum or Agile development environments.
Compensation
¥10,008,000 ~ ¥15,000,000 annually.
