Engineering Manager, New HR Domains

This full-time Engineering Manager role is based in Tokyo and supports online interviews. The position leads the engineering organization for freee's HR-related talent management and employee benefits SaaS products. The product group includes a new talent-management product, an HR information master, freee E-Learning, and freee Benefits. The team is responsible for application development rather than management of a shared platform foundation used by multiple products.

Responsibilities include overall engineering management for the assigned team; setting goals, conducting evaluations and one-to-ones, and supporting ongoing development and careers; hiring, onboarding, team building, and strengthening the development organization; collaborating with product managers and designers to create product roadmaps and improve execution; improving development processes; setting policies for resolving technical debt; and planning productivity measures. The role also involves negotiation and communication with internal and external stakeholders, including OEM product providers. Duties may change according to business conditions and the individual's suitability.

The organization spans early-stage products, where rapid hypothesis testing and agile team building are important, and the large-scale freee HR and labor product, where quality, speed, and coordination with an existing large organization are required. The manager is expected to build an effective development organization across products of different sizes and create conditions for engineers to perform well. The broader product context includes integrated cloud software for accounting, HR and labor administration, sales management, filing, signatures, and related back-office work for small businesses and individuals.

Required qualifications are experience in people management as an engineering manager or in an equivalent position; practical experience designing, developing, and operating web applications, with approximately five or more years indicated; the ability to lead, review, or appropriately support technical decisions; and daily use of AI tools at work or personally. Preferred qualifications include deep technical knowledge of web applications using one or more of Ruby on Rails, React, and Go; experience managing or scaling development organizations across multiple teams or with several dozen people; English communication skills for managing product development organizations in an environment containing both Japanese- and English-language development teams; and negotiation and coordination skills for advancing product development with stakeholders at other companies.

The position offers experience in developing SaaS products and organizations in talent management and benefits, management across development phases, and potential future career paths toward a VPoE role covering multiple areas or a product manager role. An internal transfer program is held once a year. The role does not cover management of a product platform used by multiple products.