old- Product Designer (UI/UX)

Japanese is not required for engineers, but it is desirable. As a customer-centric company building products for Japanese customers, Japanese skills are required for designers in order to do users research, product discovery etc.

Ubie awards 14 days of PTO upon joining the company (for full-time employees). They have additional holidays for summer, year-end holidays, Golden Week and various other situations (congratulation and condolence leave, maternity leave etc).

💹 Employee stock option plan

💻 New tech gear (choose your preferred PC, monitor and tools)

👩‍🎓 Skill development support

🏠 Remote work allowance

💛 Support for attending conferences

💜 Seminar participation support

📕 Book purchases

👶 Shorter work hours for employees taking care of children

👶 Parental Leave

👩‍🏫 Language Learning Support

💺 High-spec Ergohuman chairs

🧡 Commitment to helping members be productive

💟 Social security / insurance benefits included

🏥 Healthcare insurance

🚃 Commuter allowance

Ubie is a remote-first company.

Engineers are free to work from anywhere in Asia / Oceania (to ensure overlap with the JST time zone). Everyone’s free to work 100% remotely, or you can work from the company’s Tokyo office (as long as there’s no state of emergency in effect).

Ubie’s committed to their remote work style, so they intend to keep it in place even once COVID-19 is no longer a concern.

There may be times when those who are able to come to the office — and it’s safe to do so — are asked to join in-person meetings. For example, monthly business progress sharing meetings or quarterly off-sites may be held, but these meetings will be infrequent.

Ubie has adopted a flex time system with no core time.

They work sustainable 8-hour days and aim to be the most comfortable workplace among venture start-ups in Japan.

They have no set start or finish times — it’s completely flexible. Each member is free to choose their own hours, but pretty much everyone’s offline by 7pm or so. Ubie wants to optimize for output, not time spent.

The business side of the company works slightly more regular hours, usually 10:00 to 7:00PM, but many engineers prefer to work in the morning or later at night. Some part-time members have other commitments so they work on Ubie projects outside of normal work hours.

Blogs:

• Ubie Blog (written in Japanese)

Six talent requirements in Ubie

1. Zero base thinking

Put aside past experience and conventional wisdom to build optimal solutions from scratch.

2. Learning animal

A passion for continuous learning and application of knowledge in problem solving.

3. Action-oriented

The ability to design actionable tasks and execute them, regardless of methodology, to achieve high value business goals.

4. Sense of company ownership

See things from a company-wide perspective, discover the most pressing problems, and quickly solve them in ways that most benefit the entire company.

5. Critical thinking

Cut through the noise to identify the essence of things. Think and communicate in a structured, efficient manner.

6. Speak your mind, be constructive

Speak candidly and move things forward. Achieve positive effects with your words. Be willing to accept frank communications from your peers.