Product Manager Jobs in Web3

About nanameue, Inc.

At nanameue, Inc., our focus is to connect people through social media. nanameue, Inc. started in May 2013 with roots in Japan and Thailand. We have built one of Japan’s top chat applications with 9M+ registered users and 75,000+ communities and growing.

nanameue, Inc. is built with people from a variety of different cultures from Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil, and Australia to name a few. To maintain the global culture, our company language is English and we continue to welcome new members worldwide.

Our goal is to build a virtual space where everyone can have their presence as themselves and welcome everyone as they are.

Description

This Product Owner will have a chance to focus on the blockchain and web3 segment as well as the web2 segment of our product and help create and deliver best-in-class business systems and operational processes. This individual will be dedicated to the Agile Work Team to interface between the operations team and the delivery of new technology and code. You will be responsible for constantly thinking through the processes and needs of the business to support an efficient and error-free process for the member and provider.

The Product Owner prioritizes the features for development, approving user stories, and ensuring clear communication flows back and forth. You will help shape and execute the product strategy that meets the department goals, engage in business case development, and ensure adherence to the Agile Scrum process.

Responsibilities:

• Define & communicate the overall vision, objectives, and goals. Create, refine, socialize, and prioritize the Product backlog.
• Enable the delivery of Product Backlog by presenting backlog to the team; creating, owning, and refining well-formed user stories and artifacts that describe and detail new products, features, and services based on feedback from the team, creating acceptance criteria with the team, and accepting stories as they’re completed
• Maintain cross-functional team relations
• Contribute to the maturity, performance, and growth of the Agile team
• Work daily with scrum teams to refine, groom, and accept stories and bugs for implementation
• Create UAT test cases, organize and facilitate UAT testing, track test results, and work with the scrum master and agile team to resolve issues
• Represents the team, when needed, to external stakeholders, leaders, and other teams to ensure alignment and understanding progress of the team
• Support the Agile Program and ensure the team follows enterprise Agile standards. Provide feedback to the program on enhancements for the Agile process.
• Champions change and effectively manages the implementation of new ideas
• Ability to align and motivate a team to achieve objectives
• Identify opportunities for process optimization and redesign that will allow us to accomplish objectives more quickly and at a higher level of probability
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build, prioritize and define workflows and requirements
• Reinforces team approach throughout the organization both on user projects and internal initiatives
• Supports and solicits input from team members at all levels within the organization
• Create dynamic and a spirit of teamwork and collaboration
• Continually defines ways to increase customer satisfaction and deepen relationships
  

• Have an analytical approach to identifying raw data and how to utilize them
• Experience in successfully directing the efforts of developers as a product owner in a deadline-driven and fast-paced environment with multi-functional teams
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and tasks. Demonstrated knowledge of project management concepts (preferably Agile/SCRUM)
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills with internal and external stakeholders

Seniority & Skills Requirements:

★Senior Product Owner

Basic PO Skills:

• Strategy: High-level roadmap, OKR design, organization design, business development
• Planning: Product roadmap, OKR breakdown, team quarterly planning
• Delivery: Writing specifications, A/B testing, Scrum

Domain Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in toC (consumer-facing) applications
• Experience in at least two domains

Communication:

• Able to communicate effectively with both external and internal stakeholders

People Management:

• Experience managing a team of 3+ people

Language:

• Can read, write, and engage in complex discussions in both English and Japanese without issues

Web3 Knowledge:

• Experienced or possesses strong knowledge in Web3

★Mid-Level Product Owner

Basic PO Skills:

• Planning: Product roadmap, OKR breakdown, quarterly planning
• Delivery: Writing specifications, A/B testing, Scrum

Domain Experience:

• 3–5 years of experience in toC applications
• Experience can be in the same domain

Communication:

• Able to communicate effectively with internal stakeholders

People Management:

• Not required

Language:

• Can read, write, and engage in complex discussions in English without issues
• Can read, write, and engage in simple discussions in Japanese

Web3 Knowledge:

• Basic knowledge or a strong willingness to learn

★Junior Product Owner

Basic PO Skills:

• Delivery: Writing specifications, A/B testing, Scrum

Domain Experience:

• 1–3 years of experience in toC applications or 3–5 years in toB applications

Communication:

• Not required

People Management:

• Not required

Language:

• Can read, write, and engage in complex discussions in English without issues

Web3 Knowledge:

• Interest in Web3 and willingness to learn

Nice To Have:

• Hands-on experience in leading process improvement initiatives

• Engineering or UI/UX designer background

• Experience as a PO for product with 10m+ MAU

• Experience as a game planner, or gamification design

• web3-related experience

• Competitive salary and performance based bonus plus standard social security insurance
• Flextime: Core time 11:00 to 15:00
  
• For overseas candidates: Visa Support, Re-location assistance to help you start your life in Tokyo
  
• Holidays: Annual leave, Summer as well as Winter Holidays, Childcare and Family care leave
  
• Transportation allowance OR if you live near the office, we will give you 20,000 JPY monthly towards your rent