Technical Product Manager, IoT Platform

This role serves as the Product Manager and Product Owner for Actcast, an edge AI and IoT platform. Day-to-day work includes managing the product backlog, creating product backlog items, documenting customer issues and use cases, defining acceptance criteria, preparing items for refinement, and supporting priority decisions.

The role advances Scrum activities from the product perspective by explaining issues, presenting discussion points, supporting sprint-goal planning, agreeing on demonstration content, and organizing points needed for external explanations. It also coordinates expectations among internal and external stakeholders, explains releases and changes, and designs the necessary communication.

During incidents, the Product Manager/Product Owner determines impact and priority and decides and carries out the customer communication approach, including status updates and individual contact. Other responsibilities include preparing reports on requested features and development progress, operational reports covering usage and monitoring status, and documentation that clarifies reporting assumptions, scope, and responsibility boundaries. The role also prepares draft specifications and explanatory materials, organizes topics for customer refinement, and designs and advances the operation of requested items.

Scope, schedule, and risk management include organizing timelines from volume estimates, visualizing and coordinating dependencies and conflicts, and identifying and progressing internal and external tasks required for releases. As a communication hub, the role designs information flow among the development team, product team, and external stakeholders, records important discussions, and documents decisions.

Actcast collects data at large scale and in real time from various sites while considering privacy, using edge AI technology and edge devices rather than operating only as a cloud-side system. The product is used in solutions such as FamilyMart in-store signage analysis and projects involving AI cameras. The position therefore connects product decisions with customer problem-solving in systems spanning cloud and on-site devices.

The position belongs to the Product Department, which is described as having one department head and two members, including one person with concurrent responsibilities. The stated onboarding path includes learning Actcast’s architecture and typical application structure during the first three months, working alongside the development organization’s Scrum process, facilitating some Scrum events, and assisting with communication with designated external stakeholders. From around six months onward, the expected development includes handling and deciding on irregular matters and making decisions to improve product value through development-resource allocation based on business conditions. The posting states that this path may be adjusted according to the person’s experience and suitability.

The position is based at the company’s office in Kanda-Jimbocho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. Remote work is available, with attendance at the office as needed, approximately one to two days per week, and business travel. The listed selection process is document screening, a casual interview, a first interview, a reference check and final interview, followed by a conditions meeting. The stated scope of change for duties and work location is none.