Senior/Lead Product Manager (Japan Market)

Shibuya , Japan
full-time On-site

About SmartNews 

SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it. Thanks to our unique machine-learning technology and relationships with more than 3,000 global publisher partners, we provide news that matters to millions of users.

Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, SmartNews also has offices in Palo Alto, New York, Beijing, and Singapore.

If you share our vision and are passionate about our mission, we encourage you to apply!

About the JP Product Team
We're building an innovative, user-centric news platform that uses cutting-edge technology to deliver high-quality journalism in real time.

About the Role

As a Product Manager, you’ll play a key role in driving product innovation and delivering meaningful impact. You’ll be responsible for defining and executing product strategy, leading the end-to-end product lifecycle—from concept through to launch—and collaborating with cross-functional teams to bring ideas to life.

You’ll make strategic decisions to prioritize, pivot, or stop initiatives as needed, while motivating teams and ensuring successful product delivery.

What you'll do

  • Ship positive product change to customers
  • Build product strategy
  • Translate product strategy to executions, working with cross functional partners
  • Make hard decisions to prioritize, pivot, and cancel initiatives
  • Lead and motivate the team to deliver products
  • Manage the product life cycle

Requirements

Minimum requirements

  • 8+ years of product management or equivalent experience
  • Understanding and experience in Japan market end users
  • Capability to spearhead the entire product experience and turnaround business
  • Agile in experimenting and adopting new technologies and product experiences
  • Decisive and rapid in setting a direction and changing it
  • Experience of navigating through a successful full product lifecycle: from concept to prototype, to test, to full-release, to iterations
  • Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong communication and conflict resolution skills
  • Experience developing consumer apps or websites

Nice to have experiences/skills

  • Technical degree (computer science, engineering, mathematics, statistics, economics or related field)
  • Experience with building Web or App with a user-generated contents (UGC) or community
  • Proficiency in Japanese language is highly valued

Working condition

  • Office Location: Tokyo

Click here or visit our careers site for more info.

Benefits

Benefits available at the SmartNews Tokyo Office

  • All healthcare and social insurance required by the Japanese labor law, plus annual health check
  • Visa sponsorship and overseas relocation support available for eligible candidates

Click here or visit our careers site for more info about our benefits. 

Our mission News should be for everyone. But not when it’s buried under cat videos—or when your internet is spotty—or when it’s in a filter bubble. That’s why we created SmartNews. Our mission is "delivering the world's quality information to the people who need it".ニュースはすべての人たちのもの。インターネット上の大量な動画やフィルターバブルによって、その人にとって本当に大切な情報が埋もれてしまわぬよう、我々はSmartNewsを創り、"世界中の良質な情報を必要な人に送り届ける"べく 一丸となってこの大きな課題に取り組んでいます。Our ValuesThree keywords below are SmartNews Core Values. All of our employees always believe in them.私たちは、以下の3つのスマートニュースコアバリューを胸に行動しています。1. For the Common Good2. Be the Owner3. Have Appreciation We believe in technologyHow do you deliver the world’s most important information to the people who need it automatically, in real-time? How do you determine what makes a quality story or what people want to read? This is a problem both on a planetary and individual scale, and requires many different disciplines to solve.世界中の良質な情報をいかに届けるか。膨大な情報の中から良質なものを選定し、カテゴライズし、それをリアルタイムで実現する。我々はテクノロジーを信じ、スケーラブルな問題解決に魂を注いでいます。SmartNews Engineering Blog (in Japanese): https://developer.smartnews.com/blog/

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