Senior Product Manager (Money Forward Cloud ERP)

【No Japanese Requirements】

Overview

Money Forward provides a cloud service called Money Forward Cloud that solves various financial issues for businesses. Money Forward Cloud ERP in particular focuses on providing value for mid-sized to large enterprises.

About the Cross-Functional Engineering Department

Money Forward has developed dozens of products over the past 10 years. This rapid development was possible because we tried various development strategies using different technology stacks in various locations. However, to deliver further value to our users, it has become necessary to unify these disparate approaches.

To address these challenges, the Cross-Functional Engineering Department was established in 2023. Our mission is to integrate Money Forward’s ERP products at a feature level, enhance collaboration amongst the ERP development teams, and to make development more efficient and streamlined across all ERP products.

Main Responsibility

As the first product manager in the Cross-Functional Engineering Department, you will collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, sales, marketing, and customer support across various ERP products. Your role will be to maximize the product value delivered to users of all ERP products, through effective product management, and coordination with all the product teams.

Specific Responsibilities

• Formulate unified product vision and roadmap for all ERP products, and for the Cross-Functional Engineering team
• Plan initiatives to solve user problems
• Manage product development and improvement
• Direct development in collaboration with engineers and designers
• Set issues, verify hypotheses, and analyze products
• Execute marketing strategies in collaboration with business departments
• Create requirements for product integration

Position Highlights

• Engage with multiple Money Forward products across various domains and phases
• Work in a global environment
• Collaborate with top-tier PdM talent in the B2B domain in Japan

Required Skills and Experience

Mandatory:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Over 3 years of experience in product management, design, development, or direction of back-office products or SaaS

Additionally, experience in one of the following:

• Deep understanding and experience in back-office operations such as accounting, finance, billing, and order management
• Deep understanding and experience in the inter-company transaction domain

Nice-to-have:

• Project management experience in product development
• Experience in Agile or Scrum development
• Experience in formulating product strategies based on user data analysis
• Experience in product development with overseas engineers

Language Requirement:

• English: Fluent in both written and spoken
• Japanese: NOT required, but having Japanese proficiency is a plus

Salary Range

 Min 7,000,000 - Max 15,000,000 Japanese Yen / Year (Gross)

Location, Work Style Policy

• Location: Tokyo, Japan
• Hybrid Work
  • As a standard practice, a minimum of 2 days work from office attendance is mandatory, designated as team office days. Additionally, employees are encouraged to spend 3 or more days in the office.
  • The specific "team office days" may vary depending on the assigned team.
  • This policy may be subject to change based on the company's needs and work circumstances.

Working hours

Discretionary labor system

Vacations

• Two days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Japanese national holidays (16 national holidays)
• 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

• Medical insurance
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Full transportation coverage
• The latest computer (Unlimited upgrade or purchase when needed for development is　available upon approval.)
• Seminar participation support
• Book purchases

Relocation Support for Overseas Candidates

• Communication Support
  • Japanese language study support
    • Online beginner courses
    • Terakoya (Japanese study buddy program)
  • In-house Translation & Interpretation team
  • Active English-speaking employee community within the company
  • Culture and Language exchange events
• Relocation Support
  • Working and dependent visa sponsorship and application assistance
  • Flight tickets (for employee and their dependent family)
  • Airport pick-up
  • Temporary fully furnished apartment
    • 1st month: free
    • 2nd and 3rd month - corporate discount available upon request
  • Relocation bonus for initial life setup
  • Settling-in support after arrival in Japan
    • City office and bank account opening tour
    • Information sharing about mobile plans, credit card applications, etc..