Project Manager

About HR Tech department

Overview

We’re the creators of the award winning skill evaluation and training platform 'Track'. We are currently tackling the exciting mission of modernizing Japan's hiring culture and help companies build and maintain strong engineering teams. Through this year and beyond we plan to expand our product lineup, enhance our UI/UX, roll out new microservices, and build new features which we hope you’ll be a big part in the planning and building.

Why we are looking for PM

Givery aims to provide the missing link that our clients need to scout, hire, and train world-class engineers. We are profitable, privately owned, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. Our clients include some of the biggest names in Japan. We have a diverse team from all corners of the world, and we are looking for a skilled Project Manager to help us expand Track, a platform that helps companies evaluate and train technical engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as Project Manager and Scrum Master in a diverse, Japanese and English bilingual development team.
• Define and manage project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.
• Establish a communication strategy to update stakeholders on the progress of the project.
• Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs.
• Perform risk management to mitigate potential threats, optimize opportunities, and safeguard organizational objectives.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, stakeholders, designers, and other development teams to align goals and deliverables.
• Oversee design, development, and testing to meet quality standards, best practices, and customer requirements.
• Continuously improve engineering processes and tools for increased efficiency, quality, and overall productivity.

The Attractiveness of the Position

## Awesome tech!
One particular aspect that makes us proud of our team is the fact that we use modern technologies with development practices such as code reviews, continuous integration, unit tests, etc. Dev teams feel welcome here.

## Work-life balance
We encourages team members to have other activities and responsibilities in life, most people in our teams work 40 hours a week. We have flex time, maternity/paternity leave, etc which is something a lot of our proud new parents really appreciate.

## Choose where you work
We are set up for remote work, but you are more than welcome to come to our modern office in Shibuya, Tokyo.

## International environment
We have people from all corners of the world working together to build the best products possible. Most people in our dev teams use English day to day, but the perfect candidate will be able to navigate and negotiate our international work environment while making the transition towards an even more global team smooth for the local members too.

We are very proud of what Givery has become. The incredibly low turnover rate of our technology team proves that Givery fosters a work culture that is both very supportive and welcoming. We are sure, once you meet the team, you will feel it too!

You can gain

•  Joining the international team, you can exposure to a broad range of cultures
•  Ability to work with some new technologies

Tools

• JIRA, Notion, Miro, etc.

PC Spec

• Mac or Windows

*You can pick up your machine, and we'll have it ready for you on your first day if you are located in Japan.

Application Requirements

Must have

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering projects, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a culturally diverse team
• A proven track record of managing successful projects
• Business-level proficiency in both English and Japanese 

Nice-to-have

• Working knowledge of agile and scrum methodologies with a focus of maximizing value output (e.g., minimum viable product)
• Professional software engineering experience
• Experience building new processes and building project teams from zero

Language

• Business-level proficiency in both English and Japanese.

Who fit us

The ideal candidate will have a robust technical project management background, excellent leadership skills, and a proven track record of successfully managing complex projects. This role requires a strong communicator, strategic thinker, with proven growth mindset. The philosophy of Track is “Empower Engineering”, and we encourage everyone in the team to share this mindset.

Work style

• Facilitate scrum ceremonies (lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives)
• Identify and remove blockers that impede the development team.
• Manage communication and expectations with external stakeholders, keeping them informed of progress, risks, and issues.
• Champion an “agile-first” mentality, building MVPs and iterating accordingly.
• Foster a positive and vibrant working culture and coach members on best agile practices.

Benefit

• Health Insurance 
• Transportation allowance (up to 30,000 yen per month)
• Family allowance (10,000 yen per month per dependent child up to age 18)
• In-house bar, free drinks 

Vacations

• Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday) 
• Japanese national holidays
• Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) every year up to 20 days a year. 

Selection Process

1) A 30-minute call with the team’s leader.
2) An exam via our skill check platform Track Test.
3) Team interview (usually 3 rounds over 2-3 hours with people you’ll work with)
4) Management interview
5) Offer!

*The order of 1 and 2 may change.