Company ProfileA fast-growing Manufacturing AI SaaS platform company, expanding globally across the US and Asia, is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead cross-border product development teams. The Role<ul><li>The company is in a full-scale global expansion phase, with development teams spanning Japan and Vietnam, and is scaling a core AI-powered product at a rate far exceeding typical SaaS growth benchmarks.</li><li>You will lead the end-to-end development management of a key product - from goal-setting and roadmap execution to team design and quality standards - working closely with product and business stakeholders.</li><li>You will design and operate a collaborative development system between sites, managing time zone workflows, cross-cultural communication, and unified engineering standards.</li></ul> Your Skills <ul><li>Proven experience leading a development organization and contributing directly to product growth and customer outcomes.</li><li>People management experience including recruitment, evaluation, and organizational design.</li><li>Hands-on background as a software engineer with experience building and operating products.</li><li>Business-level Japanese (JLPT N2 or equivalent) and business-level English, both mandatory.</li><li>Experience managing multinational development teams.</li></ul>Tech Stack <ul><li>Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js</li><li>Backend: Rust (axum), TypeScript, Node.js (Express, Fastify, NestJS)</li><li>ML & Algorithms: Python, PyTorch, TorchServe, OpenCV, Elasticsearch, Vertex AI</li><li>Infrastructure: Google Cloud, GKE, Istio, Cloudflare, Argo Workflows</li><li>DevOps: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, Datadog, Sentry</li><li>Data: PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, BigQuery, dbt</li><li>API: GraphQL, REST, gRPC</li></ul> Key Highlights of the Role <ul><li>Drive product decisions that directly impact the cost structure and operations of global manufacturing customers.</li><li>Gain rare experience designing and leading a distributed, cross-cultural engineering organization across multiple countries.</li><li>Work alongside world-class technical leadership to tackle an unprecedented challenge in a massive, historically underserved industry.</li><li>Join a company at an inflection point - global expansion is underway, and this role sits at the center of that growth.</li></ul> Location Tokyo Salary10 - 14 million yen Reference Number: 06940-0013408052 By clicking 'apply', you are deemed to have agreed to Robert Half Japan Privacy Notice (<a href="https://www.roberthalf.com/jp/en/privacy">https://www.roberthalf.com/jp/en/privacy</a>). Please ensure that your application documents do not include sensitive personal data such as race, beliefs, medical history, criminal record, or other information <img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/T25kcmVqLlphdGxvdWthbC4yNjA3OS4xMDg5OEByaGlqcC5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">

Tokyo,
remote
Contract
10.0M - 14.0M JPY / Yearly
Company ProfileA fast-growing Manufacturing AI SaaS platform company, expanding globally across the US and Asia, is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead cross-border product development teams. The Role<ul><li>The company is in a full-scale global expansion phase, with development teams spanning Japan and Vietnam, and is scaling a core AI-powered product at a rate far exceeding typical SaaS growth benchmarks.</li><li>You will lead the end-to-end development management of a key product - from goal-setting and roadmap execution to team design and quality standards - working closely with product and business stakeholders.</li><li>You will design and operate a collaborative development system between sites, managing time zone workflows, cross-cultural communication, and unified engineering standards.</li></ul> Your Skills <ul><li>Proven experience leading a development organization and contributing directly to product growth and customer outcomes.</li><li>People management experience including recruitment, evaluation, and organizational design.</li><li>Hands-on background as a software engineer with experience building and operating products.</li><li>Business-level Japanese (JLPT N2 or equivalent) and business-level English, both mandatory.</li><li>Experience managing multinational development teams.</li></ul>Tech Stack <ul><li>Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js</li><li>Backend: Rust (axum), TypeScript, Node.js (Express, Fastify, NestJS)</li><li>ML & Algorithms: Python, PyTorch, TorchServe, OpenCV, Elasticsearch, Vertex AI</li><li>Infrastructure: Google Cloud, GKE, Istio, Cloudflare, Argo Workflows</li><li>DevOps: GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Terraform, Datadog, Sentry</li><li>Data: PostgreSQL, AlloyDB, BigQuery, dbt</li><li>API: GraphQL, REST, gRPC</li></ul> Key Highlights of the Role <ul><li>Drive product decisions that directly impact the cost structure and operations of global manufacturing customers.</li><li>Gain rare experience designing and leading a distributed, cross-cultural engineering organization across multiple countries.</li><li>Work alongside world-class technical leadership to tackle an unprecedented challenge in a massive, historically underserved industry.</li><li>Join a company at an inflection point - global expansion is underway, and this role sits at the center of that growth.</li></ul> Location Tokyo Salary10 - 14 million yen Reference Number: 06940-0013408052 By clicking 'apply', you are deemed to have agreed to Robert Half Japan Privacy Notice (<a href="https://www.roberthalf.com/jp/en/privacy">https://www.roberthalf.com/jp/en/privacy</a>). Please ensure that your application documents do not include sensitive personal data such as race, beliefs, medical history, criminal record, or other information <img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/T25kcmVqLlphdGxvdWthbC4yNjA3OS4xMDg5OEByaGlqcC5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20.gif">
2026-03-27T06:45:17Z