Develop and operate data platforms for publishing-distribution systems, designing system renewals and extending platforms for new customers and initiatives with Python, TypeScript, and GCP.
About this role
PubteX is a publishing-industry DX company founded in March 2022 by Marubeni, Marubeni Forest Links, Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha to make Japan's book distribution more sustainable. The CTO will set the company's technology management policy, decide the technology strategy needed to meet business goals, decide hiring and training policy for technical staff, and manage the data science organization. Using AI and other advanced technology, the company provides publishers with services that optimize the volume of books printed and distributed, aiming to reduce the return rate, one of the industry's structural problems, by integrating data used across the publishing industry both vertically and horizontally, and by continuously evolving AI models fitted to each title's distinct sales characteristics to improve efficiency across the industry's supply chain. The scope of duties may be confirmed and adjusted through interviews based on skills and experience, and could extend to the company's business in general by mutual agreement. The work location may change between the Toranomon head office and remote work. Full-time position.
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