Product Owner - Software - Autonomous Forklift Solutions

Our Tokyo Autonomous Forklift Solutions team is hiring a Product Owner capable of managing product design and development of the Autonomous forklift (AFL) software that caters the need to challenging warehouse automation needs and complex processes. The team’s mission is to build scalable AFL solutions that support end-to-end processes in the warehouse.

In this role, the Product owner will be responsible for:

• Leading an Agile development team, primarily responsible for maximizing the value created by the team by building a well aligned backlog that satisfies customer needs.
• Working closely with the key stakeholders such as business owners and product management to identify the customer problems and define the solutions.
• Contributing to the vision and roadmap of the product through a pragmatic approach that guides the implementation.
• Working together with the Scrum Master to ensure the backlog has sufficient granularity and prioritized to facilitate their delivery in a sustainable manner
• Actively seek quantitative and qualitative feedback to understand the gaps in value creation and propose refinement of product strategy/vision/design.

Requirements

Minimum qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with Software Product Management in any domain
• Understanding of software development life cycle
• Strong ownership and drive for product delivery
• Ability to define and solve problems based on the first principles
• Effective communication in English both spoken and written

Preferred qualifications

• Project management certification
• Good understanding of robotics or computer science

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Working with exceptionally talented and diverse team
• Bleeding edge technology