Job Overview
Job Type
Full-time
Japanese Level
None Required
Category
Tech & Engineering
Description
**About the company:** PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan. **Responsibilities:** Product Strategy & Growth New Feature Innovation: Lead the end-to-end planning, scoping, and successful market launch of high-impact features aimed at monetization and value creation. Data-Driven Roadmap: Deep dive into user data and market analytics to diagnose user pain points, formulate hypotheses, and build robust product proposals that directly drive key KPIs. Technical & Architecture Leadership Scalable Architecture: Create platform products that scale, making high-level technical architecture and UI/UX decisions with a long-term architectural view. Technical Execution: Write technical PRDs, identify and fill product gaps, and work closely with engineering and design teams to execute the product roadmap predictably and on time. Cross-Functional Collaboration Stakeholder Management: Act as the central bridge between diverse business units—including Business Development, Sales, Legal, Compliance, and Data Science—to align priorities and clear roadblocks. Focus & Prioritization: Possess the confidence and diplomatic skill to prioritize relentlessly, making the hard decisions to say “NO” to distractions to keep the team focused on high-impact goals. Requirements Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product Management Analytical Power: Strong data analysis skills with a demonstrated ability to turn complex data insights into actionable product strategies and KPI growth. Strategic Problem Solving: A strategic mindset focused heavily on product growth, with the ability to navigate ambiguous challenges and break down complex problems into clear deliverables. User-Centric Mindset: Excellent understanding of UI/UX principles, with a relentless focus on empathy and thinking from the user’s perspective. Language: Business-level proficiency in English (written and verbal). Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Technical Foundation: Master’s degree in a technology-related field, or hands-on technical experience. AI Utilization Experience: Hands-on experience working with AI-driven features, machine learning models, or AI product integration. Execution Mindset: An extreme bias towards action (a relentless “Get Things Done” attitude) with a track record of working in very fast-paced environments. Business-level proficiency in Japanese is preferred to effectively collaborate with regional stakeholders and users. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About PayPay PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan. Key benefits International engineering team Incredible scale Read more More jobs like this We'll send you a digest of new English-friendly software developer jobs in Japan. Your email stays private, we don't share or sell it. Apply for this position × I have a favour to ask. When you apply to PayPay, please select "Tokyo Dev" from the Application route field . This helps to keep this job board sustainable, so I'd be grateful for your support with this. - Paul, Founder of TokyoDev Continue applying © 2026 Privacy Policy **Requirements:** Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product Management Analytical Power: Strong data analysis skills with a demonstrated ability to turn complex data insights into actionable product strategies and KPI growth. Strategic Problem Solving: A strategic mindset focused heavily on product growth, with the ability to navigate ambiguous challenges and break down complex problems into clear deliverables. User-Centric Mindset: Excellent understanding of UI/UX principles, with a relentless focus on empathy and thinking from the user’s perspective. Language: Business-level proficiency in English (written and verbal). **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Technical Foundation: Master’s degree in a technology-related field, or hands-on technical experience. AI Utilization Experience: Hands-on experience working with AI-driven features, machine learning models, or AI product integration. Execution Mindset: An extreme bias towards action (a relentless “Get Things Done” attitude) with a track record of working in very fast-paced environments. Business-level proficiency in Japanese is preferred to effectively collaborate with regional stakeholders and users. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About PayPay PayPay Minato-ku, Tokyo With over 70M million registered users (as of July 2025), PayPay is the country’s most popular mobile wallet used by approximately one out of every two smartphone users in Japan. Key benefits International engineering team Incredible scale Read more More jobs like this We'll send you a digest of new English-friendly software developer jobs in Japan. Your email stays private, we don't share or sell it. Apply for this position × I have a favour to ask. When you apply to PayPay, please select "Tokyo Dev" from the Application route field . This helps to keep this job board sustainable, so I'd be grateful for your support with this. - Paul, Founder of TokyoDev Continue applying © 2026 Privacy Policy
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in Product Management
- Analytical Power: Strong data analysis skills with a demonstrated ability to turn complex data insights into actionable product strategies and KPI growth.
- Strategic Problem Solving: A strategic mindset focused heavily on product growth, with the ability to navigate ambiguous challenges and break down complex problems into clear deliverables.
- User-Centric Mindset: Excellent understanding of UI/UX principles, with a relentless focus on empathy and thinking from the user’s perspective.
- Language: Business-level proficiency in English (written and verbal).
