Engineering Manager

★Engineering Manager

• Business Level Japanese Required

◆ Flextime & Hybrid Work

◆ In-house SaaS Products

◆ Annual Salary： 10 million ～ 15 million yen.

-------------【About the company】-------------

【About the Company】

The company aims to transform "work"—which occupies the majority of one's life—into something inherently more meaningful. It believes that by expanding one's potential through work and connecting with people and society, life as a whole becomes richer.

The vision the company strives to realize is a society where individuals feel excitement and a sense of fulfillment through their professional lives. It believes that the accumulation of these experiences adds color to people’s lives and ultimately leads society in a better direction. Driven by this philosophy, the company provides its own products and culture to expand "options and possibilities in work," making every day more enriching.

【Business Overview】

The company provides products designed to improve the way people work, with a specific focus on the meeting experience. Regardless of whether a team works in-office, in a hybrid model, or fully remote, the company believes that the key to improving work styles lies in "meetings," and has supported many organizations in transforming their corporate cultures.

In recent years, the company has also focused on developing AI-powered meeting scheduling functions and creating new office experiences through robot integration. The business continues to expand with the goal of building environments where everyone can feel excited and inspired while they work.

-------------【 Job Description】-------------

As work styles continue to diversify, the company is redefining "work"—not as a mere means to an end, but as an activity that enriches life. Through its products, the company is bringing about meaningful change in society.

Its flagship product is a work platform that digitizes various office scenarios, including reception, meeting rooms, seat reservations, and entry/exit management. Used by over 2.76 million total users (workers, guests, and visitors), it functions as an essential infrastructure for major enterprises, boasting a 99% retention rate.

Building upon this stable business foundation, the company is now stepping into its next-generation vision—WorkstyleOS—and entering a phase of rebuilding both its product and engineering organization.

Rather than tackling domains with pre-defined answers or best practices, such as accounting or labor management, the challenge lies in addressing an unprecedented question: "How can we visualize the relationship between people and physical spaces?" The company is now in the phase of forging these solutions from the ground up.

■Recruitment Background

The engineering team currently consists of approximately 20 members, including engineers and Product Managers (PdMs). With several top-tier global engineers set to join recently, the team's underlying technical capabilities are expanding significantly.

On the other hand, the organization is still in a developing stage. While all engineers are provided with Claude at company expense and utilize AI in their daily workflows, the company has honestly yet to establish systems to formalize, evaluate, or standardize its usage at a high level. Furthermore, while the goal is to drive development beyond traditional frontend and backend boundaries under an AI-first premise, many team members still retain conventional FE/BE mindsets. Consequently, the development process itself needs to be updated. The company is currently in a phase of systematically building these foundations step-by-step, including team structure, talent development, and evaluation frameworks.

Because of this context, the role offers substantial autonomy, allowing you to directly participate in business and organizational development alongside executive leadership, including the CEO and CTO.

With the launch of the WorkstyleOS vision, the engineering organization is transitioning toward a role-based team structure. A team centered around recently joined global members handles the base OS development (such as databases, APIs, and MCP), while a newly forming UI/UX team handles the application layer that users interact with daily.

In this role, you will be responsible for establishing and managing this UI/UX team. Your primary mission will be to design how the team and organization grow, starting from policies and systems. As you will collaborate daily with the global team handling OS development, this presents a compelling environment for anyone interested in cross-cultural, global team building.

■Responsibilities

◆ Organizational Management and Team Building

・Launching the UI/UX team, setting quarterly team goals, and managing progress

・Systematizing and standardizing AI-driven development while fostering a positive team culture

・Enhancing the team’s overall capabilities and boosting organizational efficacy (the sense that “we can do this”)

・Recruiting, training, evaluating, and providing career support for engineers

・Promoting technical outreach and communicating our company culture

◆ Leading Product Development

・Driving the development process forward through collaboration with Product Managers (PdMs) and the business side

・Establishing a rhythm for team design, operations, and improvement, while providing guidance on technical decision-making

・Promoting and supporting Agile development

・Supporting Tech Leads and Team Leaders in driving refactoring and resolving technical challenges

■Position Highlights

・Participate directly from the early stages in both organizational transformation and the technical overhaul (re-architecture) of the product.

・Leverage an unestablished environment to personally design team structures, talent development, evaluation frameworks, culture, and an AI-first development environment.

・Address the unprecedented domain of "workstyle infrastructure," where you can actively shape the business to transform how clients work—going beyond merely building a product.

・Opportunity to advance into higher-level executive roles, such as VP of Engineering (VPoE) or General Manager of the entire engineering organization, depending on your vision, initiative, and track record.

-------------【 Requirements】-------------

■Required

・Experience developing web services (5+ years)

・Management experience within an in-house service development team

・Experience leading a team in both organizational and technical aspects

・Experience establishing systems for engineering recruitment, evaluation, and onboarding

■Preferred

・Experience in developing and operating SaaS products

・Experience in infrastructure operations in an AWS environment

・Experience in architecture design and driving rearchitectures

・Experience in introducing and driving development processes that leverage AI

・Experience conducting business in English, or experience developing within multinational teams

■Ideal Applicants

・Proactively contribute to the company's vision, mission, and values.

・Finds passion and excitement in forming hypotheses, testing them, and structuring solutions when faced with open-ended questions.

・Driven by maximizing collective results through team collaboration rather than relying solely on individual effort.

・Possesses both product-level and technical perspectives, with the ability to engage and align stakeholders across the organization.

・Takes initiative on organizational challenges, continuously improving systems, frameworks, and team culture.

・Thrives in the chaos of a hyper-growth phase, with the resilience and self-drive to pioneer new paths.

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【Working Time 】

Flextime System

【 Welfare 】

◆Standard Benefits

・Commutation Allowance: Reimbursed based on actual travel expenses.

・Comprehensive Social Insurance: Includes Health Insurance, Welfare Pension, Employment Insurance, and Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance.

◆Internal Systems

・Remote Work System: Support for flexible working locations.

・Flex-time System: Core hours and flexible start/end times.

・PC Selection: Choice between Mac or Windows laptops.

・Professional Development Support: Subsidies for attending study sessions, seminars, and training programs.

◆Allowances by Work Style

The company offers specific allowances tailored to the work style (O-type, H-type, or R-type) chosen by the employee:

・"Taimatsu" (Torchbearer) Allowance: 30,000 JPY / month

・For O-type (Office-based) employees who work from the office 4+ days a week and take the lead in driving company culture from the physical workspace.

・Practice & Spread Allowance: 10,000 JPY / month

・For H-type (Hybrid) and R-type (Remote) employees to support their efforts and practices in maximizing productivity within a remote environment.

・Relocation Allowance: (Upon switching to O-type)

・Support for moving expenses when transitioning from R-type to O-type.

・200,000 JPY for single employees / 400,000 JPY for those with families.

・Lunch: (Available to all types

・Company-sponsored weekly lunch meetings held at the office to foster team communication.

*Note: Specific allowances vary based on the selected work style (O/H/R). Further details will be provided during the interview process.

【 Holiday 】

• Saturday/Sunday/National Holiday
• Annual Paid Leave
• New Year Holiday
• Summer Holiday