Head of Product

This position leads product direction across products that support pharmacy management. The role combines research, product strategy, organizational leadership and hands-on execution. It requires integrating information about business goals, market conditions, industry issues, user needs and technology to define product vision and strategy, agree plans and budgets with executives, and guide the responsible team from goal setting through implementation.

Core responsibilities include researching industries, companies, users and markets through quantitative and qualitative methods; defining investment priorities; managing strategy and roadmaps; and developing and reviewing VP and pricing strategies. The role establishes definitions of product success, designs progress indicators and operates monitoring processes. It also manages and analyzes voice-of-customer input, triages issues for consideration as projects, maintains the product backlog, and decides priorities.

The position coordinates product UX and UI direction, organizes requirements from requests through specifications, and builds agreement among stakeholders. It determines response policies for technical issues in cooperation with the Engineering Manager. Additional responsibilities include planning alliance strategies, designing synergies, leading negotiations, and creating proof-of-concept initiatives and early examples with specific customers, government bodies and educational institutions.

Direct management responsibilities vary by product and generally cover PMM, PdM and Designer roles. In addition to improving member performance through management, the product leader is expected to take hands-on leadership in situations with significant business impact and help establish the direction for the team. The role involves broad internal and external stakeholders and cross-functional collaboration.

The company provides Musubi, Musubi Insight, Pocket Musubi and Musubi AI Inventory Management, as well as other new products. The product assignment will be discussed during interviews. The posting describes a phase in which existing-product growth and development of new products are pursued in parallel. The role may include improving existing products and businesses through product planning, feature development, alliances and business development, as well as launching new products, building businesses and leading post-merger integration. Depending on the person’s interests and strengths, the scope may later expand to Head of Product responsibility for multiple products or a business leadership position.

The listed work location is in Minato, Tokyo. The selection process consists of document screening, a casual interview, two or three interviews, an aptitude test, a reference check using back check, and an offer meeting. Reference information is collected by online questionnaire from people who worked with the candidate in their current or previous job.