Product Manager (Native Japanese Speaker)

About BoostDraft
BoostDraft is a software engineering company that develops IDE for documents. It was founded by MIT and Stanford grad students, developing an assisted document editor for documents. It is a new document editor that employs error checking, reference checking and auto-completion using both rule-based approach and NLP, like what coding editors/IDE (e.g. VSCode, Pycharm) do.

Demo is in the pitch deck https://link.boostdraft.com/gnop

Background & Traction
We are currently focusing on Lawyers who draft relatively standardized but long documents, such as contracts. With only three years after our product launch, we already have more than 8,000 active paid users. We have several long-term, large-scale contracts with famed enterprises and law firms. As a result, we achieved significant success, including profitability and exponential growth, all without relying on external funding for nearly four years.

Join our Engineering-First Team
At BoostDraft, we prioritize quality over quantity. As an engineering-first company. Around 70% of our team members are software engineers with extensive experiences from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HTC, Yahoo!, and R&D in NTT. Our CEO, Yohei, who has proven experience in both Software Engineering and Business management, has built an organization that values and empowers software engineers.

Why BoostDraft?
Join a company that values innovation, research, and organic growth.
At BoostDraft, we offer:

• Extensive Opportunities for extending our software : Similar to VS Code, our software has multiple opportunities in adjacent area, such as Version management, Comparison, Extension, and integration with other software
• Focus on R&D for new technology: We heavily focus on research for knowledge extraction leveraging user data
• An Engineering-first approach: The CEO is also a software engineer and over 70% of members are software engineers. We believe in empowering our engineers and providing them with the resources they need to succeed.
• Rapid organic growth : We have experienced 300% revenue growth, are profitable, and have achieved this without outside investment. All of our revenue is coming from referrals by users, no marketing efforts

Notable Achievements
BoostDraft was accepted by prestigious accelerator program: 

• MassChallenge (Top 30 US accelerator)
• StartX (Stanford Accelerator, 7% acceptance rate)
• MIT Sandbox (Accelerator of Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Technical Challenges We Solve

• Performance improvement using both partial analysis and full analysis
• Synchronization between user input and on-memory text
• Cache efficiency to increase highlight performance during/after user input
• Security preserving Natural Language Processing, such as Federated Learning

What’s your challenges
As a Product Manager at BoostDraft, you will be responsible for managing the development and launch of new features.

• Work with cross-functional teams to launch features
• Dive deep into data to understand key opportunities and customer pain points
• Define a roadmap of high impact growth features
• Develop clear business and product requirements

【言語】 C#,（一部）Rust, Python

【FW】 Material Design (UI), .NET Framework 4.8, .NET 8.0

【DB】 SQLite, Amazon RDS

【ログ分析】 AWS CloudWatch, Elasticsearch + Kibana, BigQuery

【CI/CD】 GitHub, GitHub Actions（Self-hosted runner (Windows)）, Azure DevOps

Japanese Articles: 

• 「エンジニア9割」のスタートアップのカルチャーが素敵すぎて感動した
• 【資金調達ナシで創業2期目にして純利益1億円。急成長と黒字を同時に実現するリーガルテックの急先鋒BoostDraft CEO藤井 陽平】
• 【世界展開を目指す BoostDraft 社。AWS の支援を最大活用しユーザーに価値を届けるアーキテクチャへ】

Tech Blog (Japanese):
https://zenn.dev/p/boostdraft
Culture Blog (Japanese):
https://note.com/boostdraft

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Ensuring a Fair and Secure Recruitment Process:

In recent years, there has been a growing number of applications submitted with fake or AI-generated profiles, including fabricated work history or impersonated identities. At BoostDraft, we are committed to providing a fair and secure hiring process for all candidates and have implemented the following measures:

• During online interviews, the use of both camera and microphone is mandatory. If we detect suspicious behavior, we may ask you to disable video filters or perform a simple on-screen action. If you are unable or unwilling to comply, the interview may be terminated on the spot.
• By applying for a position or participating in an interview, you are deemed to have agreed to these measures and to cooperate if such requests are reasonably made.

These measures are applied equally to all candidates to ensure a trustworthy and fair hiring environment. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any concerns or questions regarding these measures, please feel free to contact our recruiting team.

Skills

• Logical thinking: Ability to organize complex problems and potential solutions; Break down the big issue into small pieces
• User understanding: Ability to understand user needs and ask right questions to users
• Product Management Experience: 3+ years of Product management experience in software product
• Leadership: Show clear vision and motivate team members all the time
• Excellent communication: Ability to pick up high priority issue and report effectively in English
• Entrepreneurship mindset: Strong ownership and mindset to do everything what is missing
• Technical understanding: Experience in statistical typed language coding
• Collaboration with APAC: Ability to work closely in APAC team, including shifted schedule
• Workflow development: Experience to create a work process from scracth

Language Requirement

• Business level of English
• Native level of Japanese

Academic Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Nice-to-have

• Proficiency with legal technology is advantageous.
• Previous experience working in a startup environment

Visa and Relocation

Our teams are working fully remotely, and we are expanding our global presence. While our headquarters are currently in Japan, relocation to Japan is not mandatory. If you wish to relocate, we are happy to help you obtain a visa.

Working Arrangement

• Fully remote

※For employees residing near Tokyo, there may be opportunities to work in person several times a month

• Flexible working time
• Flexible time: 6:00 am - 11:30 am / 3:00 pm - 10:00 pm
• Core time: 11:30 am - 3:00 pm
• Virtual Office
• You'll have the ability to craft a character within a virtual office environment and engage with fellow colleagues through interactive experiences

Others

Home, or any other place equivalent to home
※There is a possibility of commuting to a location designated by the company due to business reasons

5-day workweek（Saturday, Sunday, Public Holidays / End of Year and New Year holidays (set by company) / others set by company）
 
Full-time（Fixed overtime pay included）　
※permanent employment

6 months

Yes

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