Product Manager

Responsibilities

The product manager will be responsible for one of our products, either a business application with a specific use case or the Tailor core platform that serves as the common foundation for the application. and...

• Act as "CEO of the product" in our products' planning, development, and operation, managing the product by integrating technology, UX, and business.
• Collaborate with the CEO, CTO, Tech Lead, engineers, and UX designers to define product and microservice requirements, as well as take responsibility for the overall development project
• Anticipate potential risks and resolve them with the help of project members to keep the project running smoothly.
• Improve organization and processes in terms of product management to create a cycle of planning good products → developing and releasing → learning from clients' feedback → planning better products

Qualifications

• Experience in driving product development
• Skills to set priorities for product development
• Great communication skills when involving and motivating stakeholders
• Japanese language business skill (JLPT N2)

Recommended Skills

• Coding as a software engineer experience
• Leading new business, project launches, etc. experience
• Experience in agile development and understanding of software development cycles
• Project progression skills with microservices architecture
• B2B software (package, SaaS) development experience
• Product development skills involving external vendors and partners
• Designing and developing data models and Web APIs skills
• Customer journey mapping, UX design, and product design and development from the customer's perspective skills
• Discovering and analyzing customer issues (data analysis, user interviews, etc.) skills
• Japanese language skills (JLPT N1)

Nice-to-haves

• Strong sympathy with Tailor's mission and values.
• Passion about making an impact on society through products.
• Good sense of ownership and taking initiative.
• Ability and flexibility to work in a fast paced, fast changing startup environment.
• Proactiveness in taking communication with all stakeholders when promoting the product.
• Ability to discuss with both, business and engineering members in an open and frank manner.

*Internal evaluation criteria: G3 or above is expected.

About the Company

Tailor's backend platform helps companies build internal tools 10 times faster. It's also a rare Y Combinator-backed Japanese startup — the first in over 15 years.

Founded in the year 2021, Tailor is developing a headless ERP platform. It enables users to build core systems ("ERP") to support the operations of large companies.

As a product-driven company, they want to democratize the creation of products to improve people's work and lives. They do this by providing a platform for building business systems that helps businesses save valuable technical resources.

Tailor is a 0 to 1 fractional elite team with just over 10 members. They respect each member's personality, strengths, and expertise by entrusting them with a great deal of discretion and constructive feedback to form a group of highly competent, professional team members.