I’m hiring for an Engineering Manager, Machine Learning role at a very diverse, flat, remote-first high-growth product company in Japan. This is a strong fit for leaders who have built and shipped Machine Learning models into production, and now want broader ownership across team leadership, product impact, and organizational growth. The team works on turning complex raw data into high-value product capabilities, with direct influence on both product development and business decision-making.
What you’ll do
Lead an ML organization of around 10+ members across multiple teams
Own strategy, planning, execution, hiring, evaluation, and team development
Drive ML work from data processing and model development through production value creation
Partner with product, platform, application, and infrastructure teams
Help scale product impact through machine learning in a global development environment
What we’re looking for
Experience developing ML models as an engineer and shipping them into production
Experience leading outcomes as a manager in an organization that includes ML engineers
Strong people management skills across hiring, coaching, and performance management
Ability to work effectively in a fast-changing, high-ambiguity environment
Fluent business-level Japanese
Nice to have
Experience managing in a fast-growing organization
Experience leading multinational teams
Business-level English
Product management experience
Why this role
Compensation up to JPY 18M
Stock options
Remote-first working style
Flexible hours
Direct impact on product growth and business decisions
Opportunity to contribute to a globally scaling product