Woven Planet

Product Management Director

Woven Planet

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Tokyo • Japan

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • In close collaboration with the North America head of product management, define and maintain a unique global product strategy, roadmap and the associated communication & governance while focussing on the Japanese market place, Toyota Group companies especially, but also deeply considering the Asia marketplace
  • Manage a diverse team of senior professionals in various specializations such as product management and planning, market analysis, user experience, business strategies, commercialization, etc to maximize their efficiency to deliver business results
  • Pro-actively deploy your strategies and leverage all possible resources both internally and externally to derive the proper set of features that will provide Arene with competitive advantages as a product while enabling Toyota into the world of Software-Defined Vehicles and keep its position of world leader in this new field considering its operations and product lines realities and constraints
  • Develop the internal and external network to enable Arene’s products penetration in Toyota group companies as a first step, to the J-OEMs as a second step and to the rest of the world then
  • Track feature development execution by engineering, identify risks, and take action to drive to results and meet the schedule engagements
  • Leverage the global geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders in your operations
  • Manage the investment by prioritizing features as well as balancing with non-functional requirements in order to enable Arene product line to produce solid financial performance in a software-driven business model, prioritizing safety and quality before profit
  • Balance competing factors (risk mitigation and issue resolution, dependency management, fastest vs best solution, ROI, etc.)
  • Develop and maintain a good partnership network within the Toyota group company and beyond to gather insights and needs creating trustful relationships without overindexing on product customization, keeping long term vision educating customers/stakeholders to bring them along
  • Provide inspirational leadership with active listening, empathy, inclusivity, and modeling company values to maximize the performance of teams and individuals
  • Support the business development as well as market influence activities over talks in major industry events, conventions, partners and potential customers representation, etc.

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience delivering business results in a B2B environment similar to the one Arene has with a product line that has similar technology, costs structure and market complexity
  • Demonstrated experience leading teams on successful technology products
  • 15+ years of pertinent experience delivering and servicing complex products that integrate the human in extensive logical and physical elements
  • Experience in communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  • Demonstrated effectiveness in connecting business context and customer impact to business results
  • Proven experience is go-to-market strategies, business plans definition, strategic plan definition, partnership, complex commercial agreements, patents and M&A
  • Prior experience working directly with engineering teams
  • Experience working with automotive OEMs and/or tier-1 suppliers
  • Experience working in the automotive, aerospace or defence industries
  • Embrace the challenge of creating metrics, designing product roadmaps, and influencing a diverse set of stakeholders toward a common goal
  • Fluency in English
Benefits
  • Competitive Salary - Based on experience
  • Work Hours - Flexible working time
  • Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
  • Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
  • Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
  • Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance
  • Housing Allowance
  • Retirement Benefits
  • Rental Cars Support
  • In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementmarket analysisuser experiencebusiness strategiescommercializationgo-to-market strategiesbusiness plansstrategic planningcomplex commercial agreementsmetrics creation
Soft Skills
leadershipactive listeningempathyinclusivitycommunicationrelationship buildingproblem solvingrisk mitigationstakeholder influenceteam performance maximization