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Job Description
This role is a consulting position that demands collaborative work with both clients and colleagues within cross-functional product teams. Essential attributes include strong communication skills, technical proficiency, empathy, humility, and a thorough grasp of lean startup and agile values, principles, and methodologies.
Projects require decision-making that involves not only members of the client team, but sometimes even senior management, as appropriate. We are looking for someone who is willing to move forward with a project despite many uncertainties and who is willing to work together to develop a valuable product.
Operating within an early-stage team, this role is designed to be dynamic, seeking individuals capable of growing alongside the evolving demands of the team. Given its status as a new business line, you'll contribute to shaping the entire consulting framework at Code Chrysalis.
Responsibilities
- Engaging with client business stakeholders and domain experts to understand the product’s business context and identify critical business assumptions.
- Defining high-level user stories in collaboration with Product Designers and based on product prototypes.
- Facilitating discussions with software engineers to assess user stories' complexity and prioritize them on the product backlog.
- Monitoring team delivery KPIs and proposing initiatives for improvement & providing delivery estimates based on team velocity.
- Willingness to work in an agile product environment, rather than a waterfall one.
- Transferring knowledge to the client.
- Enabling client leadership to grow their own engineering practice.
- Contributing to homegrown Code Chrysalis consulting methodologies and frameworks.
Qualifications
Need to Have:
- 5+ years experience in software development, service operation, or consulting.
- Proficient in defining KPIs and measurable success criteria, and continuously reviewing and evaluating them.
- Ability to quickly understand clients' industry specialization and identify trends and opportunities.
- Experience in business planning, including setting vision, formulating strategy, and designing product roadmaps.
- Passion for skill enhancement, problem-solving, and engaging work.
- Proficiency in training, mentoring, or upskilling others.
- Adaptability to new environments and clients.
- Excellent teamwork skills, enabling collaboration across diverse roles within product teams.
Nice to Have:
- Experienced in lean and agile development
- Experience in creating and managing development backlogs
- Experience in conducting or supporting user research
- Have taught other PMs
- Have experience working as a designer or engineer
- Knowledgeable about software architecture
- Have knowledge of infrastructure
About the Company
Code Chrysalis helps people and companies transform through software engineering training. Our business is twofold:
- for individuals, we have coding bootcamps and classes to make career shifts
- for enterprise, we provide services for everything from reskilling to onboarding software teams
Our team has raised $1.4 million from Benesse, the largest education conglomerate in Japan, and our enterprise clientele includes some of the largest names.
We are the leading player in a massive and growing market to help enterprise in Japan upskill and reskill software engineering teams, but we are still early enough for you to make a big impact.
Employment Conditions
- Contract Type: Full-time employee (including 3 months probationary period)
- Working hours: 09:00~18:00 (1 hour lunch break, 8 hours work)
- Flextime: Flexible working hours depending on role
- Salary: 9M ~ 15M JPY (may vary depending on skills and experience)
- Vacations: 2 days off per week, Saturdays, Sundays, national holidays, annual paid vacations (20 days granted after the second year), childcare leave, menstrual leave, etc.
- Various benefits: Includes employee pension insurance and social insurance
- Transportation expenses paid
- VISA acquisition support system available
- Environment：Remote work possible, free dress code, many employees are from overseas, diverse and inclusive workplace
Corporate Culture
Core Values
Are you ready to embark on a journey of transformation, shaping the future of software engineering? At Code Chrysalis, we're not just another tech company - we're a community driven by our core values, paving the way for authenticity, agility, and world-class excellence in everything we do.
- Be Authentic - Stand out, be transparent, and embrace your uniqueness. We champion courage over comfort, and we are building a culture where authenticity thrives!
- Minimum Viable Everything - Embrace speed, adaptability, and agility. We believe in iterating, experimenting, and failing fast to achieve our goals.
- Be World-Class - Pursue excellence, innovation, and global perspective. Together, we'll set the bar high, exceed expectations, and lead by example in our industry.
If you're passionate about making a difference, eager to learn and grow, and ready to push the boundaries of what's possible, we want YOU to join our team at Code Chrysalis!