Product Manager

A Product Manager role in the media/life business division of a large Japanese internet company group, working on a long-running avatar community service. The role connects business and user needs to maximize product value, leading end-to-end from strategy formulation through initiative execution. Responsibilities include product strategy and roadmap definition, the flow from problem discovery to KPI design to initiative execution, planning and driving development of new user-facing features and operational tools, using AI and external tools to improve operational efficiency, deeply reading user challenges and translating them into specifications, launching and growing new products while continuously improving existing ones, data-based hypothesis testing and growth initiatives, leading from spec definition to release in collaboration with designers and engineers, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders. The service is one of the leading avatar-market services in Japan, with a party product having surpassed 18 million members, plus a new metaverse community business. Work arrangement is hybrid (roughly 3 days in office, 2 remote). Based in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo. Full-time (or contract depending on final assessment).