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KauChe is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the growth of their "Discovery EC" platform, which has achieved significant growth in GMV, revenue, and daily active users. This role involves owning the EC P/L and driving the strategy for a unique shopping experience that focuses on "discovery" rather than traditional search-based EC.
Must-haves
- 3+ years of product management experience in consumer-facing services
- Team lead experience with 5+ person development teams (engineers, designers, PdMs)
- Experience in roadmap planning, prioritization, and specification agreement
- Ability to deeply consider optimal product strategies for user apps
- Ability to formulate and execute product vision and roadmaps with the team
- Japanese language proficiency (JLPT N1 or higher required for advanced communication)
Nice-to-haves
- Experience leading growth in EC, platform, or social products (improving KPIs like GMV, ARPU, LTV, retention rate)
- Practical knowledge of the EC value chain (logistics, warehousing, procurement)
- Understanding of recommendation engines, search engines, and ad delivery technologies
- Experience with Agile development
- Engineering knowledge
- Experience in product design and development from a customer perspective (customer journey maps, UX design, information architecture)
- Growth hacking experience
- Data analysis skills (BigQuery)
Tech stack
GoGoogle Cloud (Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Pub/Sub)gRPCProtocol BuffersGitHub ActionsCloud BuildTerraformCloud MonitoringCloud LoggingCloud TraceBigQueryLooker StudioClaudeCodexCursorGeminiGitHub CopilotGitHubSlackNotionFigma
Work style
Hybrid work style with 3 days/week in the Tokyo office.
Other notes
Annual salary: ¥7,200,000 - ¥15,600,000. Probationary period: 3 months.