予定名 Meeting with Satomi Otani 日時 2025年5月7日 (水) 13:30 - 14:0

【About HR Tech department】
They’re the creators of the award winning skill evaluation and training platform. They are currently tackling the exciting mission of modernizing Japan's hiring culture and help companies build and maintain strong engineering teams. Through this year and beyond they plan to expand their product lineup, enhance their UI/UX, roll out new microservices, and build new features which they hope you’ll be a big part in the planning and building.

【Why they are looking for PM】
The company aims to provide the missing link that their clients need to scout, hire, and train world-class engineers. They are profitable, privately owned, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Their clients include some of the biggest names in Japan. They have a diverse team from all corners of the world, and they are looking for a skilled Project Manager to help them expand their service, a platform that helps companies evaluate and train technical engineering skills.

【Responsibilities】
・Act as Project Manager and Scrum Master in a diverse, Japanese and English bilingual development team.
・Define and manage project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
・Establish a communication strategy to update stakeholders on the progress of the project.
・Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
・Perform risk management to mitigate potential threats, optimize opportunities, and safeguard organizational objectives.
・Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
・Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, stakeholders, designers, and other development teams to align goals and deliverables.
・Oversee design, development, and testing to meet quality standards, best practices, and customer requirements.
・Continuously improve engineering processes and tools for increased efficiency, quality, and overall productivity.

【The Attractiveness of the Position】
## Awesome tech!
One particular aspect that makes them proud of their team is the fact that they use modern technologies with development practices such as code reviews, continuous integration, unit tests, etc. Dev teams feel welcome here.

## Work-life balance
They encourages team members to have other activities and responsibilities in life, most people in their teams work 40 hours a week. They have flex time, maternity/paternity leave, etc which is something a lot of their proud new parents really appreciate.

## Choose where you work
They are set up for remote work, but you are more than welcome to come to their modern office in Tokyo.

## International environment
They have people from all corners of the world working together to build the best products possible. Most people in their dev teams use English day to day, but the perfect candidate will be able to navigate and negotiate their international work environment while making the transition towards an even more global team smooth for the local members too.

They are very proud of what the company has become. The incredibly low turnover rate of their technology team proves that the company fosters a work culture that is both very supportive and welcoming. They are sure, once you meet the team, you will feel it too!

【You can gain】
・Joining the international team, you can exposure to a broad range of cultures
・Ability to work with some new technologies

【Tools】
JIRA, Notion, Miro, etc

【Must have】
・A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering projects, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role
・Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a culturally diverse team
・A proven track record of managing successful projects
・Business level proficiency in both English and Japanese

【Nice-to-have】
・Working knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies with a focus of maximizing value output (e.g., minimum viable product)
・Professional software engineering experience
・Experience building new processes and building project teams from zero

【Langeage】
Business level proficiency in both English and Japanese.

【Who fit the company】
The ideal candidate will have a robust technical project management background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects. This role requires a strong communicator, strategic thinker, with proven growth mindset. The philosophy of their service is “Empower Engineering”, and they encourage everyone in the team to share this mindset.

【PC Spec】
Mac or Windows
*You can pick your machine and they'll have it ready for you on your first day if you are located in Japan.

【Work style】
・Facilitate scrum ceremonies (lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives)
・Identify and remove blockers that impede the development team.
・Manage communication and expectations with external stakeholders, keeping them informed of progress, risks, and issues.
・Champion an “agile-first” mentality, building MVPs and iterating accordingly.
・Foster a positive and vibrant working culture and coach members on best agile practices.

【Benefit】
・Health Insurance
・Transportation allowance (up to 30,000 yen per month)
・Family allowance (10,000 yen per month per dependent child up to age 18)
・In-house bar, free drinks

【Vacations】
・Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
・Japanese national holidays
・Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) every year up to 20 days a year.

【Selection Process】
1) A 30 minute call with the team’s leader.
2) An exam via their skill check platform.
3) Team interview (usually 3 rounds over 2-3 hours with people you’ll work with)
4) Management interview
5) Offer!
*The order of 1 and 2 may change.