Product Lead Mobility Service
Job Summary
As a Product Lead for Toyota’s KINTO car subscription service, you will manage product specifications and roadmaps based on business and system requirements. You will collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive development projects in an in-house environment. This role involves shaping the future of mobility services and participating in globally expanding business initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Define product specifications based on business requirements
- Identify improvement areas using KPIs and user feedback
- Manage product roadmaps and backlogs
- Facilitate communication between business and technical teams
Required Skills
- 5+ years Web Product Management
- Agile/Scrum methodology experience
- Technical knowledge of AWS and Java stacks
- Business level English and Japanese
Job Details
### Job Description
As part of the in-house development organization for Toyota Group's financial and mobility services, you will be responsible for the development and operation direction of the website for KINTO, Toyota's car subscription service.
### Specific Job Responsibilities
- Creating product specifications that clearly define business and system requirements based on proposals from business units.
- Creating product specifications that identify areas for improvement based on various KPIs and customer center requests.
- Creating improvement roadmaps and managing backlogs for assigned products.
- Communicating with a wide range of stakeholders and promoting development projects while ensuring alignment across teams.
### Position Highlights
- Lead Toyota's new globally expanding business from an engineering perspective.
- Involvement in high-impact projects like "MaaS," "Mobility," and "Sharing."
- Collaborate closely with the business side to experience growth from an engineering standpoint.
- Participate in creating services that do not yet exist, turning uncertainty into certainty.
- Coordinate with Toyota Motor Corporation personnel and various systems to realize unprecedented ways of choosing and using cars.
### Working Hours
- Full flextime system with no core time (8 hours of actual work per day).
### Job Requirements
**Required:**
- Product management experience in web products (5+ years).
- Experience collaborating with project managers and development teams to drive service planning, development, operation, and release.
- Basic technical understanding of web product development.
- Strong communication skills to smoothly collaborate with both business and development teams.
**Preferred:**
- Ability to understand company operations and propose new service approaches.
- PMP, Prince II, or internal project manager certification.
- Scrum Master or agile process experience.
- Developer experience.
- Experience launching new businesses at a business company.
**Desired Candidate Profile:**
- Proactively take on challenges in uncertain situations.
- Excited about creating new products.
- Ability to communicate across organizational boundaries/roles.
- Ability to identify business challenges independently and handle from proposing to building and operating systems.
- Ability to oversee the entire business and manage tasks accordingly.
### Development Environment
- Development Language: Java
- Framework: Spring Boot
- Middleware: Tomcat
- Platform: AWS ECS, EKS, Aurora, DynamoDB, S3, EC2
- Tools: IntelliJ, VS Code, Docker, Github, Terraform, Github Actions, PagerDuty, JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Teams, etc.
- Language Requirements: English (Business Level, TOEIC 735-860), Japanese (Business Level, JLPT N2).
### Compensation and Benefits
- Annual Salary: ¥6,600,000 - ¥12,000,000.
- Monthly salary system (Base salary: ¥324,000/month).
- Salary increase: Twice a year.
- Overtime pay: Provided separately; fixed overtime system (30 hours) for certain levels.
- Retirement Allowance: Included (Lump-sum and defined contribution pension).
- Benefits: Rent subsidy, family allowance, investment trust accumulation.
- Social Insurance: Health, employee pension, employment, workers' compensation.
- Holidays: 121 days per year (Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays).
- Paid Leave: Granted according to regulations.
- Contract Period: Full-time employee (Probation: 3 months).