Product Management Director Japan, Arene

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Arene’s goal is to open vehicle programming to everyone by simplifying vehicle software development and increasing deployment frequency without compromising safety and security. This will create a whole new market of vehicle application developers who, through software, integrate a vehicle into our daily lives in novel ways. Arene aims to significantly improve how vehicles are designed and developed, and we’re working closely with Toyota to realize this goal in its next-generation vehicles.

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Product Management Director Japan, Arene

Woven by Toyota, Tokyo

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Location: Tokyo
Work type: Hybrid
Level: Director+, manager
Experience: 15+ years
Posted: Mar 23, 2026
Last check: 5 h ago
Job type: Product management

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What you will do

In close collaboration with the North America head of product management, define and maintain a unique global product strategy, roadmap and the associated communication & governance while focussing on the Japanese market place, Toyota Group companies especially, but also deeply considering the Asia marketplace
Manage a diverse team of senior professionals in various specializations such as product management and planning, market analysis, user experience, business strategies, commercialization, etc to maximize their efficiency to deliver business results
Pro-actively deploy your strategies and leverage all possible resources both internally and externally to derive the proper set of features that will provide Arene with competitive advantages as a product while enabling Toyota into the world of Software-Defined Vehicles and keep its position of world leader in this new field considering its operations and product lines realities and constraints
Develop the internal and external network to enable Arene&rsquos products penetration in Toyota group companies as a first step, to the J-OEMs as a second step and to the rest of the world then
Track feature development execution by engineering, identify risks, and take action to drive to results and meet the schedule engagements
Leverage the global geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders in your operations
Manage the investment by prioritizing features as well as balancing with non-functional requirements in order to enable Arene product line to produce solid financial performance in a software-driven business model, prioritizing safety and quality before profit
Balance competing factors (risk mitigation and issue resolution, dependency management, fastest vs best solution, ROI, etc.)
Develop and maintain a good partnership network within the Toyota group company and beyond to gather insights and needs creating trustful relationships without overindexing on product customization, keeping long term vision educating customers/stakeholders to bring them along
Provide inspirational leadership with active listening, empathy, inclusivity, and modeling company values to maximize the performance of teams and individuals
Support the business development as well as market influence activities over talks in major industry events, conventions, partners and potential customers representation, etc.

Product Management Director Japan, Arene

The team

Product Management Director Japan, Arene

The team

What you will do

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