Product Manager, Onboarding & Risk
- Tokyo
- Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
- Full-time
- July 8, 2021
We accept, manage and settle money between countries, currencies, and various local payment methods. Many companies, from small merchants up to global corporate giants, expect KOMOJU to work reliably, quickly, safely, and without effort on a large scale. We handle many, many millions of transactions each year. Japan and Korea are our main theatres of operations now and we plan to expand into Europe later this year, followed by South East Asia and South America shortly.
We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead our product, for our onboarding experience that enables users to accept payments in a matter of minutes, rather than weeks.
At Degica, we consider every major component of our product to be a product of its own. The product manager leads, owns and manages this product as if it’s a business on its own. KOMOJU products are constantly evolving, improving and expanding, so an agile and open mindset is key.
Requirements
- Ideally 3-4 years product management experience in fast growing teams
- Experience working with compliance, risk and legal teams to build the best onboarding experience possible.
- Proven ability to take a product from the earliest conception to successful market adoption
- Strong design and user sensibilities - ability to view product from a user’s vantage point and is motivated by the chance to improve the lives of customers
- Experience working on technical B2B and B2C products
- Technical aptitude. Comfortable with the internal workings of online services and opinionated about APIs
- Ability to inspire engineering teams to elevate their product ambitions and has collaborated closely on architecture and product decisions alike
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulations of customer problems
You may be a fit if:
- You’re a creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, risk operations, analytics, marketing, design and sale
- You are eager to roll up your sleeves and build out a new product idea with a fast-moving motivated team
- You have experience managing technical software products and navigating difficult technical tradeoffs
- You do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful whether that means writing a QA plan or hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration
- You can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid action plans
- Beyond just shipping new products, you obsess about continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium and large releases
- You have experience building or working on technical platforms that enable concurrent development of features by teams located around the world
Benefits
- All national holidays observed
- One week of summer vacation in addition to regular vacation
- Opportunities to travel to developer and partner conferences
- Motorized sitting / standing desks
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.
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