Product Manager

**About the company:** TableCheck Chuo-ku, Tokyo We help diners make restaurant reservations, and we help merchants manage table inventory, enrich dining experiences, and visualize multi-property analytics to gain insights into restaurant performance. **Responsibilities:** Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for TC Manager — the dashboard used daily by tens of thousands of restaurant staff across 40 countries. Conduct regular on-site research with hosts, managers, reservationists, and owners across casual, fine-dining, hotel F&B;, and multi-outlet groups. Translate what you observe into product bets. Define the “why” and the “what.” Partner closely with engineers and designers on the “how,” and trust them to own implementation. Use AI tools to rapidly build POCs, mockups, and clickable prototypes. Take them into restaurants and run early validation sessions with real operators before committing engineering capacity. Write crisp PRDs, problem statements, and decision docs that the team can act on without follow-up meetings. Prioritize ruthlessly across a portfolio that touches reservations, table management, waitlist, guest data, POS / payment / telephony integrations, and reporting. Partner with the Consulting, Onboarding, and Sales teams in Japan and overseas to understand customer pain, validate solutions, and ensure new features are adopted, not just shipped. Set, track, and report on outcome metrics — adoption, task completion, time-on-task, support ticket volume, NPS — not feature counts. Coordinate launches in Japanese and English, working with Marketing, Support, and regional teams to land features in every market we serve. Requirements 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years owning a B2B SaaS product used daily by operational, non-technical users. Demonstrated empathy for the restaurant or hospitality industry. Either direct operating experience (host, manager, owner, operations lead) or a strong track record of building products for restaurants, hotels, or comparable front-line operational teams. Hands-on comfort with AI tools for prototyping, drafting, and rapid iteration. You have personally used AI to build at least one prototype that you put in front of users. Strong written communication. You think in documents, not slides. Comfort with data — able to define metrics, pull or request the right queries, and make trade-offs grounded in evidence. Experience working closely with engineering teams on complex, integrated products (not just feature shipping). Business-level Japanese (interviewing customers, reading internal documents, writing customer-facing release notes) Nice to haves While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Prior experience working inside a restaurant, hotel F&B; operation, or hospitality group — even briefly. Familiarity with reservation systems, POS, payment, or telephony / CTI integrations. Experience designing for multi-tenant, multi-language, multi-currency products. Previous startup or scale-up experience. Comfort with qualitative research methods (contextual inquiry, diary studies, JTBD interviews). Experience launching products simultaneously in Japan and overseas markets. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About TableCheck TableCheck Chuo-ku, Tokyo We help diners make restaurant reservations, and we help merchants manage table inventory, enrich dining experiences, and visualize multi-property analytics to gain insights into restaurant performance. Key benefits Scalable and maintainable Multicultural and full of camaraderie See your work in the wild 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 × This position requires business Japanese. I have a favour to ask. When you apply to TableCheck, please tell them that you heard about the position on TokyoDev . 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:** 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years owning a B2B SaaS product used daily by operational, non-technical users. Demonstrated empathy for the restaurant or hospitality industry. Either direct operating experience (host, manager, owner, operations lead) or a strong track record of building products for restaurants, hotels, or comparable front-line operational teams. Hands-on comfort with AI tools for prototyping, drafting, and rapid iteration. You have personally used AI to build at least one prototype that you put in front of users. Strong written communication. You think in documents, not slides. Comfort with data — able to define metrics, pull or request the right queries, and make trade-offs grounded in evidence. Experience working closely with engineering teams on complex, integrated products (not just feature shipping). Business-level Japanese (interviewing customers, reading internal documents, writing customer-facing release notes) **Nice to have:** While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following. Prior experience working inside a restaurant, hotel F&B; operation, or hospitality group — even briefly. Familiarity with reservation systems, POS, payment, or telephony / CTI integrations. Experience designing for multi-tenant, multi-language, multi-currency products. Previous startup or scale-up experience. Comfort with qualitative research methods (contextual inquiry, diary studies, JTBD interviews). Experience launching products simultaneously in Japan and overseas markets. APPLY FOR THIS POSITION DO YOU NEED MORE INFO? ASK A QUESTION About TableCheck TableCheck Chuo-ku, Tokyo We help diners make restaurant reservations, and we help merchants manage table inventory, enrich dining experiences, and visualize multi-property analytics to gain insights into restaurant performance. Key benefits Scalable and maintainable Multicultural and full of camaraderie See your work in the wild 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 × This position requires business Japanese. I have a favour to ask. When you apply to TableCheck, please tell them that you heard about the position on TokyoDev . 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