Business Division VPoE candidate

Description

Mission

Plan and execute development organizational strategies for the business division in question.

Working with the business manager, you will be responsible for driving the entire development department related to the business to realize the business.
You will be responsible for building the development organization to drive the business forward, including planning the development organizational strategy, recruiting development personnel, building a development structure, fostering a development organizational culture, and promoting development.

*This position is a candidate only, and upon joining the company, you will assume the role of Engineering Manager.
The candidate position will be appointed once you have clearly demonstrated the capabilities required for the position.

Knowledge of blockchain is not required. We are looking for candidates with the ability to keep up with new technologies, a thorough understanding of the solution areas and advantages and disadvantages behind the technology, and the technical foundation to master it.

 

About Our Challenge

Business

It is expected that in the future, all assets in the world will be digitized. Initiatives for digital money such as credit cards, points, and smartphone payments have already begun, and the digitization of value-backed assets such as stocks, bonds, derivatives, and real estate, known as real-world assets (RWA), is also progressing.

As the search for the optimal technology for managing information on these important assets continues, blockchain is finally entering the practical application phase. Overseas banks have adapted the technology to their own internal systems, with examples being used for payments worth hundreds of billions of yen. In addition, there are examples of governments issuing cash as digital currency and using blockchain to manage national systems.

Amid signs of major changes in the financial system, on September 5, 2024, we launched Project Pax, a cross-border remittance infrastructure project in collaboration with the international organization Swift and three major Japanese banks. We aim to establish a new international remittance platform with the world's first legally compliant stablecoin that can be used by banks.

 

Technology

Since its founding in 2018, Datachain has been a truly tech-driven company, conducting R&D with the goal of creating a "de facto infrastructure" through "global x deep tech" from Japan. This accumulated technology has led to the current opportunity. However, given the market's potential impact, competition is expected to intensify in the future.

We believe that the new cross-chain technology we developed, which connects blockchains, is a powerful technology with the potential to become the de facto standard worldwide. We are also promoting system development utilizing this technology, and believe that future expansion will enable it to be adapted to a variety of business use cases.

We will take advantage of this unique opportunity to create a world-changing product. To that end, we have established a development team and are currently recruiting high-level engineers to serve as core members.

 

Organizational Challenges We Face

• To launch multiple businesses simultaneously, we need to simultaneously advance the necessary organizational design and implementation in two areas: establishing development organizations within the business and cross-organizational collaboration.
• We envision an organization in each business where an EM (potential business unit VPoE) will coordinate the development organization, and company-wide initiatives will be driven by a cross-organizational Engineering Office. However, these efforts are still in the planning stages, and we believe that a management position capable of coordinating and promoting cross-team collaboration is necessary.

 

Specific Duties

I will drive organizational momentum across the entire development team and drive the business forward.
To realize the business, I will recruit, train, and utilize talent, leading to development results.

• Create a development organization that ensures healthy delivery and systems, essential for product development.
• Embody the company-wide corporate culture and instill it throughout business divisions.
• Account for technical aspects from a business perspective.
• Design the organization, systematize it, promote development, and advance the delegation of authority.
• Use your management skills to counter the technical skills of senior engineers on an equal footing, demonstrating the value of different roles.

By combining the accumulation of small initiatives with efforts that bring about drastic change, you will always aim to achieve the best development results.

 

Requirements

• Experience developing and operating products using public cloud, architecture, and frameworks
• Experience systematizing team improvement activities based on development methods and organizational design for multiple teams
• Experience designing the necessary organizational structure based on business goals, recruiting the necessary personnel, and establishing a new development team
• Experience planning development tasks while incorporating technical risks into project schedules
• Experience designing information and communication within agile processes
• Experience proactively obtaining necessary information related to business themes, including from outside the company, and linking it to technical requirements to drive the organization forward
• Experience recruiting engineers and conducting technical PR activities

 

Welcome requirements

• Blockchain-related development experience and knowledge
• English communication and management experience
• Deep domain development experience, experience with strong performance requirements
• AI-based development experience

 

Desired profile

• People who want to make a big difference in the world with new technology
• People who can keep up with new knowledge, utilize technology, and drive the organization and business forward
• People who enjoy engaging the organization and instilling a culture to realize a vision
• People who understand the characteristics of software and are passionate about engineering beyond implementation
• People who can create a vision for the organization in an empty environment and drive it to realization