Lead development projects for digital book services, managing requirements, design, and vendor collaboration.
About this role
Dwango's Platform Business division is hiring a Product Planning Director for d Magazine (over 2,400 magazines) and d Book (about 1.11 million titles), the e-book services it runs jointly with NTT Docomo on web and smartphone apps. The director bridges the planning section and the development team to raise product quality, in a section of six.
The director owns the full cycle for one service: finding problems, UX review and requirements, development planning and prioritisation, project progress management with stakeholders, development direction with engineers and designers, pre-release verification and post-release measurement. The work covers site and app UI and also directing system changes for content delivery, with partners including NTT Docomo and in-house and outside engineers.
Applicants need project management experience on web or app system development covering resources, schedule and effect measurement, plus experience finding system problems and defining requirements. Preferred are requirements definition, UI and UX knowledge, consumer service planning and operation, directing sites with payment functions or delivery-management systems, hypothesis testing with numbers and working with multiple stakeholders.
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