Growth Hacker - Payments

Remote OK - Worldwide
Full-time
February 18, 2022

Job Description

About Degica

Degica is a fintech company that operates payment platform KOMOJU. We process payments for companies worldwide through credit card acquiring and processing of alternative payments such as Konbini, Digital Wallets, and other payment methods.

Our core mission is to reduce the complexities of processing payments through the means of technology, for merchants worldwide.

Our merchant portfolio consists of large, blue-chip companies and emerging growth companies. Our company builds innovative and easy-to-use payment products for our customers, making it easy to accept payments around the world.

Degica is based in Tokyo, Japan, and has a strong footprint in the domestic market, as well as the global market, especially Europe and South Korea.

As a Growth Hacker, you will be responsible for driving user growth engagement for our payment platform KOMOJU. The Growth Hacker will build, track, and optimize campaigns across a variety of growth levers including push notifications, email, SMS, and more. You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders in Product, Engineering, and Business.

What you’ll do:

Lead and coordinate the launch of growth campaigns – using channels such as landing pages, push notifications, SMS, in-app messaging - and products from ideation experimentation to scaling, measuring, and iterating
Identify actionable opportunities and best practices to improve the opt-in funnel and onboarding performance
Optimize key product funnels and marketing campaigns., across all user stages, to reach growth goals
Leverage A/B platforms and other best practices to create and test growth-focused hypotheses
Collaborate with Editorial and Product Teams from initial design phase to testing, product development and execution, to increase company KPIs around activation, engagement and retention of product lines
Produce campaign messaging and generate campaign creatives as needed
Develop dashboards and provides analysis and insights to cross-functional teams and partners on an ongoing basis. Present updates on strategy and results to leadership
Be an internal subject matter expert on marketing campaigns, push notification platform/experiences. and AB testing approaches
Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to gain alignment on new growth opportunities. Make data-driven decisions and work cross-functionally with Product and Engineering teams

Requirements

3+ years of writing direct marketing messages targeted to specific user segments and with specific goals in mind
3+ years of business-to-consumer growth experience across marketing and/or product
Proficient in Excel and familiar with SQL and data visualization tools (e.g., BigQuery, Matillion and Tableau), with analytics (e.g. GA, Firebase Console) and A/B testing frameworks
Previous experience developing pages and campaigns that require custom HTML and CSS
Ability to analyze performance, provide insights, and proactively suggest campaign improvements to improve performance and customer lifetime value
BS/BA degree or equivalent years of experience

Benefits

Private Health Insurance
Pension Plan
Paid Time Off
Work From Home
Training & Development
Performance Bonus

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About Degica

Degica supports companies that want to do business in Japan and Korea.

They run a payment platform called KOMOJU that serves a wide variety of companies from small to large, and they provide various services for clients that want to break into the Japanese market. They also have extensive expertise in gaming and eCommerce so they’re able to act as a bridge to the Japanese and Korean markets in these areas.

With partners like Valve and Shopify, Degica is a powerful ally for any company that wants to start or expand a business in the Japanese and Korean markets.

When it comes to engineering, Degica believes in having a flat, inclusive culture and constantly improving by continuing to evaluate itself. The company also prizes individuality and believes that each member brings their own unique value to the team. Their development processes are always updating as the company grows, and they have an engineering culture that largely organizes itself and each engineer has a lot of ownership in their own projects. This culture allows engineers to showcase their strengths while continuing to grow.

Japanese Language Policy
With around half of their total members (and around 75% of engineers) coming from outside Japan, Degica generally uses English for written communication (e.g. Slack, Github). Verbal communication is also primarily in English.

However, quite a few people working there can speak both English and Japanese fluently so Japanese may be spoken at times during meetings, especially when they involve teams other than engineering.

Overall, the language spoken depends on the team. The dev team uses mostly English, but their HR team (for example) speaks primarily Japanese.
Visa Sponsorship
Degica sponsors visas for candidates living outside of Japan. They’re still hiring from abroad, but due to travel restrictions related to COVID-19 new employees from abroad may need to start working on a contract basis. Degica will switch you over to a full-time employee contract and sponsor your visa once it’s safe to come to Japan again.

Degica also helps out with relocation (searching for apartments etc.) but they don’t have a formal policy for this. The support offered depends on each individual case. They do always pay for flight tickets to Japan in the case that someone moves from abroad however.
Paid Leave
Degica has a very generous vacation policy.

Like most companies in Japan, their basic PTO package starts with 10 days of normal paid time off during an employee’s first year, followed by increases in subsequent years in accordance with Japanese labor law.

Degica also offers 5 extra vacation days that can be used during the summer months, and another 5 days of year-end holidays.

They also have birthday leave, which means members can get an extra day off each year on their birthday. So that’s a total of 21 vacation days per year in addition to Japanese public holidays. They also offer maternity and paternity leave.
Benefits
💻 New tech gear

👩‍🎓 Skill development support

💛 Support for attending conferences

🧡 Seminar participation support

📕 Book purchases

👶 Parental Leave

👩‍🏫 Language Learning Support

💜 Social security / insurance benefits included

🏥 Healthcare insurance

💚 Pension insurance

🚃 Commuter allowance

👍 Motorized sitting / standing desks when working from our office
Engineer Interview Process
Engineering Jobs

Degica’s interview process skips the high-pressure whiteboard interviews in favor of a coding challenge that’s closer to what engineers would actually work on day-to-day.

Here’s the basic interview flow:
- First interview: Meeting with two Degica engineers to discuss about something you’ve built and see if you’re a good cultural fit
- Second interview: Technical challenge to test your real-world development skills
- Third interview: Meeting with a senior leader in the company
Remote Work
Degica allows full remote work from anywhere in the world! The only stipulation is that your work hours must have some overlap with the JST time zone.

Even once COVID-19 is no longer a concern, Degica intends to continue their full remote policy.

And if you do relocate to Japan, there's no need to live near their Tokyo office — you can work from anywhere in Japan.
Work style
Degica has an office in the Kichijoji area of Tokyo, but they’ve switched to working fully remotely due to COVID-19. A typical work day at Degica begins at around 10:00AM for most people. Some teams begin with a stand-up meeting where they quickly share their tasks for the day before focusing on work for the rest of the day.

One unique aspect of Degica’s work style is their code review process. Since they have a flat hierarchy and a relatively small team, they have a system where reviewers are selected randomly. Their engineers also take care of operations and handle errors or technical customer queries as a team via Slack.

A typical stopping time for engineers at Degica is at around 7:00PM, and they have very little overtime so engineers normally won’t be online past this time. They also make it a point to avoid unnecessary meetings and prefer to have ad-hoc discussions with relevant members only.
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