Senior Product Manager
- Tokyo
- Remote OK - Anywhere in Japan
- Full-time
- December 5, 2024
In this role you will
- Define the product strategy and roadmap for key features within the personal finance app, aligning with business objectives and user needs.
- Conduct user research and analyze market trends to identify and prioritize product opportunities, ensuring a deep understanding of the user’s financial journey.
- Collaborate closely with engineering, design, marketing, and data teams to ensure seamless execution and successful launches.
- Develop and maintain product requirements, use cases, and user stories, ensuring alignment with the user experience and technical feasibility.
- Lead agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and retrospectives, to drive efficient and transparent progress.
- Measure and report on product performance metrics, using insights to inform ongoing product improvements and optimizations.
- Own the product lifecycle from ideation through development, launch, and iteration, ensuring each release delivers measurable value.
- Serve as an advocate for the user, championing a customer-first mindset and building empathy for users’ financial challenges across the team.
In the first days your expected deliverables will include
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of the current product, user feedback, and business metrics; identify immediate opportunities for improvement.
- Define and present a 6-12 month roadmap for key features, prioritizing user needs and business goals in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Conduct initial user research and data analysis to validate hypotheses around user pain points and market needs.
- Collaborate with design and engineering to outline initial product specifications and a timeline for at least one major feature.
- Establish clear success metrics for product initiatives, setting up a tracking system to measure user engagement and product impact.
- Kick off the development of a new feature or improvement by coordinating with engineering, and design teams, managing the project through to early release.
- Set up a process for continuous feedback collection and user testing to ensure a steady flow of insights for future iterations.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Product Management, Marketing, Computer Science, or a related field; an MBA or relevant Master’s degree is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in product management, ideally within B2C or fintech environments.
- Demonstrated success in defining and launching impactful digital products, with a focus on customer-centric solutions.
- Strong analytical skills with experience using data to drive product decisions, backed by familiarity with A/B testing, user research, and data analysis tools.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working in cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and experience working closely with engineering and design teams.
- Ability to think strategically while balancing short-term goals and long-term vision.
- Passion for personal finance and a commitment to helping users improve their financial well-being.
- Business level English and Japanese required
Benefits
- Working remotely from anywhere in Japan
- Flexible working hours
- Employee stock option program participation
- Referral bonus 250,000 JPY per successful hire
- Communication allowance (10,000 JPY/month)
- Remote work allowance (3000 JPY/month)
- 20 annual paid leave
- 10 annual sick and carer leave
- Health and social insurance support
- Ability to work from overseas for short periods
- Learning support (7500 JPY/quarter)
About Moneytree
Moneytree is a fin-tech start-up founded by three foreign entrepreneurs in Tokyo. Their Moneytree Link product provides a "utility layer for connecting financial services" that serves banks and other fin-tech companies, but they also have a popular consumer app that helps people manage their finances. They're a truly international company with an English-first environment and a high technical skill level for engineers, so it sounds like a really great place to work!
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