Product Manager

We are looking for an experienced Product Manager to join our teams, and ensure that we achieve our mission. We are seeking people who thrive in high productivity & engagement environments, who are passionate about building products that delight end-users, and meet stakeholder needs in terms of desirability, feasibility and viability.

This is a truly multidisciplinary team effort, and the Product Manager role is pivotal to our success. The role will involve extensive communication with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders across functions to understand the user problem and their needs and formulate achievable requirements for development teams.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas that grow market share, improve customer experience and drive growth.
• Write the Marketing Requirements Document (MRD) and work with product owner, engineering team and design team to execute the product roadmap
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to create the product vision and the corresponding product roadmap.
• Collaborate with product owners and tech leads to develop key user stories.
• Work with designers to articulate and create UI/UX designs of the project.
• Work with designers to build prototypes and validate customer needs and user experience.
• Work with designers to develop wireframes that bring user stories to life together with low fidelity prototypes as needed.
• Work with designers to create high-fidelity user interfaces that are consistent with existing design styles.
• Facilitate and make appropriate decisions about the high-level technical architecture with Engineers
• Work with Sales, Marketing, and Data Analysts to evaluate, measure and improve the impact of implemented features and their design. Should be comfortable with metrics like conversions, revenue, and churn.
• Lead and drive product process efficiencies resulting in an organization wide improvement.
• Open and willingness to manage and grow on any given product line according to the priorities of the Business.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technology related field or at least 3 years of technical experience.
• At least 5 years of Product Management or an equivalent role
• Possess excellent oral, written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Business level of Japanese language(written, verbal)
• Ability to break down any given technical or business problem into deliverables while keeping the stakeholders and business impact in mind.
• Track record of working in a very fast paced environment or a startup or working on user facing products
• Have an extreme bias towards action, you need to have a Get Things Done attitude.
• For those in Japan, you must have a working visa valid for more than six months.
• Can work primarily in person from our Tokyo office.

Compensation