Senior Product Designer (UI/UX)

The Senior Product Designer will help lead GO Inc.’s design organization while continuing to produce product design work directly. The role involves delivering persuasive designs to stakeholders and society, making broad design proposals in projects involving diverse stakeholders, and guiding projects toward successful outcomes.

Day-to-day responsibilities include UX/UI design for consumer-facing and business-support products, including offline experiences. The designer will develop user stories based on hypotheses, data, and user interviews, and validate target users and usability through surveys, interviews, and testing. The role also includes reviewing and providing feedback on other designers’ work, supporting their development, and planning investments and initiatives to strengthen the design organization.

Applicants must have at least five years of experience promoting product design as a lead designer. Required capabilities include translating an ideal product vision into practical UX and UI, explaining design rationale to executives and people from other industries, making decisions that balance user experience and business needs according to project phase, promoting decisions about projects, teams, and organizational direction, leading the establishment or operation of a design organization, and managing multiple projects concurrently through planning, proposals, and direction. The posting also asks for alignment with GO Inc.’s mission, vision, and values.

Experience in service or product development based on user validation and outcome measurement, work during product or service launch phases, and experience with digital products or services that include offline elements are welcomed. Additional preferred experience includes creating corporate identity, visual identity, logos, or tools; knowledge of or implementation experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; iOS or Android application development; management in a creative or design department; and growing a business from a marketing perspective.

The position belongs to the Product Design Group within the Design Department. The department has 19 members, including 11 in the Product Design Group and 8 in the Communication Design Group. The product context includes the GO taxi application, DRIVE CHART, a next-generation AI dashcam service, and the GX decarbonization business. The work spans consumer and business products and digital and real-world mobility experiences.

Employment is full-time. The annual salary range is 6,000,000 to 12,000,000 JPY, determined according to skills and experience, and includes a fixed overtime allowance for 45 hours per month unless the hire is classified as a managerial supervisor. Salary is reviewed twice a year, with an annual performance-linked payment. The workplace is in Minato, Tokyo. Working hours use a super-flex time system with no core hours. Benefits include transportation costs up to 50,000 JPY per month, social insurance, a taxi subsidy of up to 10,000 JPY per month, a monthly New Normal allowance of 10,000 JPY, child allowances, welcome lunches, club activities, and casual clothing. Holidays include weekends, public holidays, paid leave, year-end and New Year holidays, condolence leave, nursing-care leave, and childcare nursing leave.