About the job

We are building a new SaaS Management Platform for Japan & the global market. This platform enables users to easily manage the cloud services they use, at any scale.

This is a position in Money Forward i, a start-up subsidiary of Money Forward.

Responsibility

As a Product Designer, you will design IT Management Cloud, our web application that centralizes data from over 100 SaaS applications.

Our Product Designer is expected to understand the customer's job, design the solution, and be responsible for the delivery of the solution. You will work with the product owner to define the customer's problems and find a way to solve them. This position is responsible for looking for a better way to get the customer's jobs done, creating the solution, and continuously improving it based on feedback to increase the product value.

For example, you can be actively involved in every step of the product delivery lifecycle.

Although you can start working on one part of the product delivery lifecycle depending on your skills, UI design necessary for product development is your must-do responsibility.

• Work with product owners to hypothesize issues through design, product management, user research, user modeling, and engineering, prioritize the product roadmap, and discover better, more impactful products.
• Redesigning users' extensive and complex workflows in a smoother and simpler way, encouraging them to change their behavior and transforming it into a simple and great experience.
• Prototyping based on the hypothesis, interviewing users, delivering and verifying the impact of the value to the users.
• Work with web developers on UI/UX design for delivery.
  

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a UI Designer / UX Designer or Product designer in software development
• Experience as a designer involved in all stages of software delivery from design, build to maintenance
• Experience in BtoB SaaS application design
• Experience in Markup (HTML/CSS) and JavaScriptExperience in prototyping using Figma, Adobe XD, etc.
• Experience in product discovery through user interviews and data analysis
• Experience in working with Product managers and Engineers
• Having strong facilitation skill

Nice-to-have

• Experience in Agile/Scrum development process
• Experience in front-end development with Modern JS frameworks such as React, VueJS, etc.
• Experience in developing in an English-speaking environment
• Experience in UI design for English-speaking market
• Experience as a designer in a startup

Language Requirement

• Japanese: Fluent, both verbal and written. (Native Speaker, CEFR C2, JLPT N1 or equivalent)
• English: Fluent, both verbal and written. (CEFR B2 or equivalent)

Salary Range

• Min 6,000,000 - Max 11,000,000 Japanese yen / year (Gross)

Location, Remote Work

• Location: Tokyo or Kyoto, Japan
• Remote work is available 4 days per week.

Working hours

• Flexible Working Hours (No core time)

Vacations

• Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Japanese national holidays (16 national holidays in 2021)
• Paid holiday: 10 days (first year) *Number of paid holidays increases (+1 day) every year up to 20 days a year.
• Summer vacation days: 3 days
• Winter vacations days: 2 days

Benefit

• Health insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Full transportation coverage
• The latest computer (No limit upgrade or purchase when needed for development is available upon approval.)
• Seminar participation support
• Book purchases
• Copyright of OSS belongs to individuals

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

• Working Visa
• Flight ticket to Japan
• Signing Bonus
• Temporary fully furnished apartment for the first month