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Overview
Money Forward provides a cloud service called Money Forward Cloud that solves various financial issues for businesses. Money Forward Cloud ERP in particular focuses on providing value for mid-sized to large enterprises.

About the Cross-Functional Engineering Department
Money Forward has developed dozens of products over the past 10 years. This rapid development was possible because we tried various development strategies using different technology stacks in various locations. However, to deliver further value to our users, it has become necessary to unify these disparate approaches.
To address these challenges, the Cross-Functional Engineering Department was established in 2023. Our mission is to integrate Money Forward's ERP products at a feature level, enhance collaboration amongst the ERP development teams, and to make development more efficient and streamlined across all ERP products.

Main Responsibilities
As the first product manager in the Cross-Functional Engineering Department, you will collaborate with product managers, engineers, designers, sales, marketing, and customer support across various ERP products. Your role will be to maximize the product value delivered to users of all ERP products, through effective product management, and coordination with all the product teams.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Formulate unified product vision and roadmap for all ERP products, and for the Cross-Functional Engineering team
• Plan initiatives to solve user problems
• Manage product development and improvement
• Direct development in collaboration with engineers and designers
• Set issues, verify hypotheses, and analyze products
• Execute marketing strategies in collaboration with business departments
• Create requirements for product integration

Position Highlights

• Engage with multiple Money Forward products across various domains and phases
• Work in a global environment and utilize your English skills
• Collaborate with top-tier PdM talent in the B2B domain in Japan

Mandatory:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Over 3 years of experience in product management, design, development, or direction of back-office products or SaaS

Additionally, experience in one of the following:

• Deep understanding and experience in back-office operations such as accounting, finance, billing, and order management
• Deep understanding and experience in the inter-company transaction domain

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Project management experience in product development
• Experience in Agile or Scrum development
• Experience in formulating product strategies based on user data analysis
• Experience in product development with overseas engineers

Language Requirements

• English: fluent, both verbal and written
• Japanese: NOT required, but having Japanese proficiency is a plus

Caring Mental & Physical Recreation:

• Hybrid working
• Full salary in probation & 13th month salary
• Social insurance on full salary from probation
• Premium Health insurance from probation
• Flexible start 8AM-9AM from Mon-Fri
• 16 days off annually + 1 Birthday Leave
• Paternity leave extra 5 days
• Annual company trip; Quarterly team building activities
• Club activities
• Annual health check

Caring Career & Development:

• Clear Career path
• Foreign language & International technology-related certifications sponsoring
• Well-equipped facility: Macbook pro, additional monitor,..
• Soft skill workshops
• Tech seminars
• Monthly and biannually Recognition Awards
• Performance review twice/year

Caring Mental & Physical Recreation:

• Hybrid working
• Full salary in probation & 13th month salary
• Social insurance on full salary from probation
• Premium Health insurance from probation
• Flexible start 8AM-9AM from Mon-Fri
• 16 days off annually + 1 Birthday Leave
• Paternity leave extra 5 days
• Annual company trip; Quarterly team building activities
• Club activities
• Annual health check

Caring Career & Development:

• Clear Career path
• Foreign language & International technology-related certifications sponsoring
• Well-equipped facility: Macbook pro, additional monitor,..
• Soft skill workshops
• Tech seminars
• Monthly and biannually Recognition Awards
• Performance review twice/year