Product Manager

JOB REQUIREMENTS

<Must-have>

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Administration, or a relevant field.
• 5+ years of Product Manager, Product Owner, or equivalent experience.
• Experience building B2B SaaS or enterprise software.
• Strong product discovery and customer interview skills.
• Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear, actionable product specifications.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand complex workflows and make them simpler.
• Experience working closely with software engineering teams.
• Comfortable making prioritisation and product trade-off decisions.
• Strong ownership from problem discovery through delivery and adoption.
• Professional English communication.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Product Strategy & Ownership

• Own product problems from discovery through delivery and adoption, ensuring solutions create meaningful value for customers and the business.
• Prioritize product initiatives based on customer value, product strategy, business impact, effort, dependencies, and risks.
• Collaborate with the Co-founder and relevant stakeholders to define product priorities, scope, and delivery plans.

2. Product Discovery & Customer Insights

• Understand customer and business problems through customer interviews, feedback, product data, and market insights.
• Work directly with enterprise customers and internal stakeholders to identify pain points, validate problems, and uncover opportunities for product improvement.
• Identify patterns behind customer requests and solve underlying problems instead of simply building requested features.

3. Requirements & Solution Definition

• Translate complex business requirements into clear, practical, and scalable product solutions.
• Define product requirements, user flows, business rules, acceptance criteria, edge cases, and functional specifications.

4. Product Delivery & Cross-functional Execution

• Work closely with Product Design and Engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle to ensure product requirements are clearly understood and properly delivered.
• Drive features through development, QA, UAT, release, and production rollout to ensure smooth product delivery.

5. Product Validation & Impact Measurement

• Validate delivered solutions with customers and stakeholders to ensure they solve the intended business problems.
• Monitor product usage, customer feedback, and business outcomes to measure whether shipped solutions are delivering the expected value.

6. Domain Scope & Enterprise Capabilities

• Work across product areas including Skills & Competency Intelligence, Talent Profiles, Internal Mobility, Talent & Opportunity Matching, Workforce Planning, Organizational Structures, Roles & Permissions, Enterprise Workflows, Integrations, and AI-assisted talent decisions.

7. AI & Data Intelligence Integration

• Identify opportunities where AI, search, data intelligence, or traditional product logic can be used to improve user experience, automate repetitive workflows, and support better talent decisions.
• Collaborate with Engineering and relevant stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI use cases, ensuring AI is applied where it creates real customer and business value.

<Nice to have>

• Experience in HRTech, HRIS, HCM, ATS, Talent Management, Performance Management, or related B2B products.
• Experience working with enterprise SaaS products and complex organizational workflows.
• Experience building AI/LLM-powered products or AI-assisted product features.
• Experience with search, recommendation, matching, or talent intelligence systems.
• Experience working with Japanese customers or enterprise stakeholders.
• Japanese language ability is a plus but not required.
• Familiarity with GitHub, Jira/Linear, Notion, and Figma.
• Experience working in cross-cultural teams, especially Japan–Vietnam teams.

BENEFITS

• Hybrid working & flexible working hours (8:30 AM - 9:30 AM + 8 hours from Monday to Friday).
• Year-end reward (based on company regulations and business situation).
• Mandatory insurance: based on company regulations, the probationary period is excluded.
• Premium Health Care (applied for full-fledged employees).
• Annual Performance and Salary Review.
• 15 days of annual leave per year.
• Annual Health Check-up Laptop provided.
• Happy Hour, Company Trip, Year End Party, Events, etc.