Project Manager (Japanese N2 or Expat)

Our Client is a Foreign Tech Company who have been developed various products based on e-commerce platforms, incubation, growth-phase products, or long-term core business products, looking for a Project Manager who can speak both Japanese & English.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Create a full development schedule from the roadmap to epics
• Create and execute 1-2 weeks development plans and following-up reporting.
• Define KPI for project completion" for backlog tasks and create tickets for each sprint.
• Primary response to inquiries from stakeholders and system incidents.
• Build relationships with all project stakeholders, including SWEs, PDM, Customer Support, etc.
• Define KPIs and improve the productivity and operation development.

JOB REQUIREMENT

Basic Qualification

• Fluent Japanese language skills N2 or higher, or Native Japanese.
• English skills equivalent to CEFR B1, IELTS 5.5 or higher.
• Preferable candidate with minimum 5 year-experience in project management for technology company.
• Ability to define or explain system specifications from business requirements.
• Experience managing tasks and schedules for more than two weeks using tools such as ClickUp and Jira.
• Document creation skills using tools such as Notion, Google Docs, and spreadsheets
• Prioritizing tasks with BizDev, SWEs, and PDM
• Solid competency in strictly managing schedule.

Preferred Experience

• Proven track record in development team productivity by setting KPIs, measuring product effectiveness and improvement.
• Monitor multi KPIs to track products after release such as conversion rate and retention rate
• Agile Scrum Master
• Experience as SWE, UI/UX designer, etc.
• Data analysis and table definition using SQL.
• Proven experience in junior project managers, IT communicators, etc.

Screening Criteria

• Showed a strong competency to identify and solve problems for the team and users
• Teamwork player to cooperate with project team members
• Willing to learn and applying new technologies

Compensation & Benefits

• Flexible working time and WFH
• MacBook provided
• English lessons and other educational expenses support
• Premium healthcare
• Annual leave 15 days per year
• Monthly gathering, free drinks, company trip
• Performance & salary reviewing twice a year

Originally posted on Himalayas