Product Manager

As the Product Manager, you work closely with the senior leadership of the company's Japan member firms and maintain a solid understanding of the target customers/users’ challenges, develops vision, plans and roadmap to address with the set of digital solutions, along with managing continuous innovation cycle.

For this, you will rely on collaboration with the Technology and Experience leads by owning the product backlog and prioritization. You speak both business and technology delivery fluently, ensure you act as the center of everything the team delivers. This means you work closely with key stakeholders in bringing them into the process.

1. More than 5 years of project experience / More than 3 years of project leader experience
2. Experience in planning and developing new products and/or new feature from scratch (leadership experience is a plus)
3. Define product vision, road-map and lead defining and monitorin KPI
4. Manage product across product lifecycle, from planning, launch, to improvement process after launch of the product
5. Experience with buiding service launch planning both external and internal market (Go-To-Market planning and execution)
6. Experience with budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, and other project management related work
7. Presentation experience in both Japanese and English:
8. Documentation and slide writing skills in both languages
9. Ability to explain logically and clearly
10. Ability to negotiate
11. Ability to explain technical contexts to non-technical stakeholders
12. Logical thinking, structured communication
13. Understand various frameworks and able to apply them
14. Basic knowledge in Audit, accounting, finance,system engineering (experience with system proposal, implemenation, support is a plus) and Consulting (DX projects, IT implementation, etc)
15. Hands-on experience in managing Scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Retrospective), using JIRA and/or Azure DevOps for product management
16. Working with highly diverse cross-functional cross-cultural team (leadership experience is a plus)
17. Working in the software development teams
18. Ability to understand the root cause of the issues to solve.
19. Someone who is proactively learn new skills and practice new ideas.
20. Someone who can tackle new challenges by inspiring stakeholders and bringing team together.
21. Confidence leader who act as the representative of the team.
22. Native Japanese level (N1 degree or more)
23. Business English (TOEIC 860+)