Lead multiple product teams for Fanicon, aligning business, product, and technology. Manage engineers, support technical decisions, and improve processes, quality, and team growth.
THECOO
Fan community platforms · Digital marketing · Influencer marketing · Tokyo, Japan
THECOO is a Tokyo-based technology and marketing company serving creators, entertainers, fans and corporate advertisers. Its Fanicon platform lets creators run paid fan communities with members-only live streams, group chats and other digital content. The company also provides influencer marketing, performance advertising, social media management and the iCON Suite planning and analytics tool.
Fanicon generates revenue from monthly memberships and point-based in-app purchases. THECOO also earns fees from advertising campaigns, influencer programs, consulting, content production and social media operations for business clients.
- Salary range
- ¥3.4M – ¥16M
- Median
- ¥5.5M – ¥8M
- Can be worked in English
- 11%
- Visa-sponsorship signal
- 7%
- Remote or hybrid
- 19%
- Most requested
- JavaScript 9
- AWS 7
- Google Cloud 7
- Node.js 7
- MySQL 6
- TypeScript 6
- JLPT N1 5
- Native Japanese 1
- Japanese posting, level unstated 19
- No Japanese level detected 2
- Common areas
- Sales 7
- Backend engineering 6
- Consulting & strategy 5
- Business development 4
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open positions at THECOO
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Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems for Fanicon, collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders, lead engineers, and improve architecture, scalability, and reliability.
Manage the engineering organization behind Fanicon, a membership fan-community app. Lead team building, people management, evaluations, recruiting, and engineering PR.
Lead product strategy and roadmap for Fanicon and +KIRARI, turning user and business needs into priorities, requirements, and measurable improvements with designers and engineers.
Drive Fanicon’s product lifecycle by shaping vision and strategy, prioritizing user needs, planning releases, and coordinating development to improve user experience, performance, and scalability.
Develop and operate Node.js backend features for Fanicon, improve core functions, test service ideas, and discuss requirements with product managers for a growing fan-community app.
Maintain and scale high-traffic systems by automating operations, improving reliability and performance, managing cloud infrastructure, monitoring production, handling incidents, and supporting releases.
Leads QA strategy for Fanicon and other products, manages manual testers, sets release quality gates, and guides test automation with product engineers across Android, iOS, and web.
Design and maintain QA plans and automated regression tests for Fanicon across Android, iOS, and web, using coding, modern test tools, and AI-assisted workflows to improve product quality.
Lead corporate planning with senior management across M&A, IR, capital policy, internal controls, risk management, business reform and KPI management, carrying initiatives through execution.
Leads monthly, quarterly, and annual closing and disclosure work, coordinates with auditors and tax advisers, strengthens controls, improves processes, and develops the accounting and finance team.
Lead business planning for Fanicon by managing revenue, costs and KPIs, analyzing data, reporting to executives, and developing growth strategies, alliances and new initiatives.
Manage existing Fanicon accounts by building relationships with artists and agencies, identifying needs, proposing solutions, and supporting revenue, usage, and satisfaction.
Handles monthly budget-versus-actual analysis, annual budgeting and forecasting, management materials, and potential work in finance, IR, M&A, KPI design, and internal controls.
Sell Fanicon to entertainment partners, develop new clients, propose fan-business solutions, negotiate contracts, support implementation, and help launch communities.
Build new fan-business opportunities for Fanicon by earning trust with entertainment-industry decision-makers, designing proposals and revenue models, and leading partners from agreement to launch.
Lead sales strategy and planning for a digital marketing business, including market and competitor analysis, KPI design, sales-team execution, and cross-functional operations.
Plan and execute new-graduate hiring, build candidate pipelines, manage recruitment media, coordinate selection communications, and support offer holders and organizational development.
Develop digital marketing strategies and proposals for new and existing clients, win projects, present plans, analyze data, report results, and provide consulting sales support.
Coordinate influencer casting and brand collaborations with account executives, managing negotiations, shoots, events, contracts, delivery checks, social data analysis, reporting, and talent scouting.
Design and plan merchandise, scratch-lottery prizes, promotional images and banners for the Fanicon fan community app, coordinating production, vendors, proofing and delivery.
Work in sales, proposals, operations, and consulting across a fan-community platform and digital-marketing business. New graduates join a division after assessment.
Create websites, landing pages, banners, social media assets, white papers, and sales materials for a marketing team using Figma, Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign; remote work is negotiable.
Develop and improve new features for the Fanicon fan community app across mobile, frontend, server-side and SRE areas. The role is for students joining from April 2028, with team development experience and Japanese business proficiency required.
Supports recruiting operations including interview scheduling, document handling, candidate screening, job-posting updates and scouting, with additional help for recruiting events and administration in Tokyo.
Build relationships with entertainment companies, artists, talent, and athletes for Fanicon, understand their needs, and help develop sales and business strategies.
Create banners, in-app illustrations, icons, stamps, campaign graphics, merchandise, and promotional flyers for Fanicon and other services, plus related ordering and billing administration.