Technical Product Manager 

(Tokyo)

■ Your Role and Responsibilities 

• Drive Cross-functional Collaboration: Serve as the primary point of contact between key executives/stakeholders and various core executional teams (Engineers, UX designers, Data scientists, etc.). Foster effective communication and collaboration to ensure alignment on project goals and priorities.
• Define Requirements: Clearly define and finalize technical and product requirements, working closely with stakeholders to gather insights and feedback. Synthesize user stories and acceptance criteria in collaboration with Engineers, UX designers, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure a comprehensive understanding among development teams and QA.
• Oversee Project Planning: Collaborate with core executional teams to evaluate available resources, define project scopes, and establish development phases necessary for iterative delivery of business value.
• Manage Delivery and Implementation: Track and manage the development plan, identifying and mitigating potential risks related to development, deployment, security, and integration.

■ Work Location

・Tokyo

■ Experience and Qualifications 

• Excellent English Technical Writing: Proficiency in articulating product ideas in simple terms while producing detailed and unambiguous technical specifications understandable to diverse audiences.
• Business Level Japanese must: Proficiency in speaking and writing Japanese at a business level to effectively communicate with Japanese-speaking stakeholders, customers, or team members.
• Strong Presentation Abilities: Ability to deliver clear and concise presentations tailored to various stakeholders, including engineers, data analysts, and C-level executives, to garner support for product ideas.
• Incremental Product Development: Skill in breaking down products into sets of features deliverable incrementally, facilitating agile development and iterative improvements.
• Understanding of Software Development Methodologies: Proficient knowledge of different software development methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban, including their respective tradeoffs and applications.
• Proficiency with JIRA and Confluence: Familiarity with JIRA for roadmap management, ticket creation, and tracking, as well as Confluence for organizing documentation, flowcharts, and collaborative workspaces.

■ Additional Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Experience: Demonstrated experience in project management, including planning, execution, and monitoring, to ensure timely and successful delivery of initiatives.
• Sense of Urgency: Ability to act with a sense of urgency when necessary to meet project deadlines and address critical issues promptly.
• Good Judgment: Capacity to manage ambiguity and exercise good judgment in decision- making, prioritization, and problem-solving situations.
• Effective Feedback Exchange: Skill in giving and receiving constructive feedback tactfully, fostering a collaborative and supportive team environment both upstream and downstream in the product development process.