Product Manager (Web Code Platform)

Job Description

| Global Market for QA

Markets are changing rapidly, and there is a demand for quick software releases. Agile development has become mainstream; on a global scale, 92% of developer teams adopt agile development, 71% of which aim to release at least once a week. With such a rapid cycle, manual verification is too time-consuming, and there is an urgent need for automation. Our services can solve these critical challenges and make our clients a competitive advantage in software development. QA’s global budget is said to reach over $1 trillion. We are rapidly expanding our service reach internationally to win this vast global market.

Job Purpose 

We are hiring a Product Manager who deeply understands the global software test automation market and its challenges. In this role you will join as a Product Manager for the Core Platform team working across Autify for Web and Mobile in order to contribute to the evolution of our products. You will be responsible for gathering quantitative and qualitative data to solve customers' burning needs and collaborating with the rest of the product team to define the roadmap for our products.

Salary

¥6,000,000 - ¥8,000,000 a year

• Reviewed twice a year / 年2回見直し
• Annual bonus included / 年間賞与込み

Responsibilities

• Stakeholder communication: You will be the first point of contact and liaison between your stakeholders and your engineering team; your collaboration skills will help to clarify scope, manage expectations, and communicate on achievements and progress.
• Delivery management: Planning short, mid, and long-term project roadmaps through clear iterative deliverables while considering the team's capability and priorities in order to optimize the velocity of your project delivery.
• Result evaluation: Analyzing beforehand the expected value of your project in our market, you will be documenting, reporting, and evaluating the results that the project delivered and planning the next set of improvements based on post-release conclusions.
• Understand burning needs: Identify customers’ burning needs by conducting customer interviews and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data to dig deeper into their problems.
• Market analysis: Deeply analyze the market by tracking competitors, understanding our strengths and weaknesses, and building a strategy to position ourselves properly.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 

• Minimum 3 years as a Product Manager, including strong stakeholder communication.
• Data analysis skills using quantitative and qualitative data with demonstrable experience using analytics tools. 
• Have a basic understanding of how the system works and user acceptance testing (UAT) to collaborate effectively with the engineering team.
• Business-level English (required for internal and external communication).

Nice-to-Haves 

• Knowledge of B2B SaaS product management and business models.
• Experience in launching a new product (0→1)
• Experience in managing a fast-growing product.
• Experience in managing products targeting both Japanese and global markets.
• Fluency in Japanese

Desired Personality Traits 

• Keenness to listen to customers and explore how to solve their problems.
• Ability to identify steps to keep the product progressing in a dynamically changing environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively and carry out necessary steps.
• Thrives in an environment with the freedom to explore options and learn from outcomes.
• Enjoys collaborating with team members.

About the Company

Autify, Inc. is a start-up company founded in San Francisco by a team of engineers who were the first Japanese team to graduate from the top US accelerator Alchemist Accelerator. With the mission to increase creativity with the power of tech, we develop and provide Autify, an AI-based software test automation platform.

Selection Process / 選考プロセス

1. Product manager interview (45 mins)

2. Work sample test interview with VP of Product (45 mins)

3. HR interview (45 mins)

*The interviews will be conducted in both Japanese and English.

*We will ask you to provide references after the final interview.

| About the Engineering Team

Our Team

Autify's engineering team is international, with more than half of the engineers being foreign nationals and all developers being English speakers. We have a good culture where members respect each other's backgrounds. Since we have two products, Autify for Web and Autify for Mobile, our development engineers are divided into two teams corresponding to each product. We have about 30 front-end, back-end, and technical support engineers who work closely with engineering managers, product managers, QA managers, designers, and machine learning engineers. The product manager is in charge of the general roadmap. The product manager develops a rough roadmap and works with the engineers and designers on the details of each feature and bug fixes before implementation. Depending on the size of the feature, we appoint a feature lead from among the engineers to be in charge of the project and give them the discretion to make technical decisions.

Our Development Process

We create a ticket about what kind of function we will develop. In some cases, the product owner creates it based on user feedback; in other cases, each team creates bugs and investigation requests directly.

The development cycle consists of one Sprint, which takes two weeks. Development tasks are assigned during the planning stage on the first day of the Sprint, and we hold a daily standup meeting to check the overall progress and any problems. (If there is a time difference, it is done at lunchtime).

We review code on GitHub. After the review, the merged branches are automatically deployed to the staging environment, and E2E tests are performed (which Autify does itself).

After testing on the integrated branch, it's deployed to the production environment. Deployment is done several times a week as needed. We also hold sprint ceremonies like Sprint planning, feature refinement and sprint retrospective sessions. The developer will demonstrate the developed function to all employees at the end of the Sprint in the Sprint Demo.

Tech Stack

• Backend: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Go
• Frontend: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Redux, Styled Components
• Machine learning: Python, PyTorch, Kubernetes, GPT-4
• Test: Appium, Selenium, WebdriverIO, Puppeteer
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, Terraform, Packer, MacStadium, GoogleCloud
• Monitoring: Datadog, New Relic, Sentry
• CI/CD: CircleCI, GitHub Actions
• Source code management: GitHub
• Project management: Jira
• Misc.: G Suite, Slack, Notion, Gather, Zoom, Miro, 1Password, Mixmax, Calendly, etc.

| Employment Conditions

Employment Status

• Permanent employee (Full-time)
• Probation period: 3 months after joining the company (conditions are the same as permanent employment)

Work Location

• Tokyo office or Remote (Hybrid)

Work Hours

• Full flextime time

Note: The determination of working hours (start and end times) must be made to the extent that one's own duties (including guidance and supervision of subordinates) are properly performed and that there are no obstacles to work in terms of coordination and communication with other employees.

Bonus

• Twice a year

Holidays/PTO

• Complete a five-day workweek system (National holidays, Year-end and New Year holidays, etc.)
• Unlimited paid time off

Benefits

• Equipped with various social insuranceRegular health checkups
• Stock option
• A laptop PC will be rented when joining the company
• Remote work allowance
• English learning support
• Skill-up support
• Visa sponsorship
• Relocation bonus
• Relocation housing support