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About the Role

As a Product Manager for Mercari Marketplace, you will lead a cross-functional team and be responsible for specific areas within Mercari's marketplace business, including domestic and international flea market apps and business-to-business sales. You will drive product planning, development management, and mid-to-long-term strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team consisting of engineers, designers, UX researchers, and marketers.
• Take ownership of specific domains within Mercari's marketplace business (domestic and international flea market apps, business-to-business sales).
• Drive product planning, development management, and mid-to-long-term strategy.
• Create and execute long-term roadmaps for your assigned domain, considering market trends, competitor analysis, and qualitative/quantitative data.
• Gain consensus with management and relevant departments, prioritizing initiatives that directly contribute to business growth.
• Lead the entire product development lifecycle, from discovery (identifying customer needs) to delivery (spec definition, development, release, and post-release analysis).
• Collaborate with stakeholders across various departments (Legal, Customer Service, BizDev) to drive business growth through product development.
• Potentially focus on deepening core marketplace experiences (seller/buyer experience, shipping/logistics).
• Potentially focus on global cross-border e-commerce, designing seamless transaction experiences.
• Potentially focus on planning and launching new products and features from scratch.

Requirements

• Embrace Mercari Group's and each company's mission and values.
• Demonstrate end-to-end ownership from product discovery to value delivery to customers, leveraging AI.
• Experience using AI tools for product discovery, hypothesis validation, and prototyping, integrating data/customer insights to improve decision-making quality and speed.
• Experience taking responsibility for business outcomes (KPIs) rather than just feature count, leading the cycle of discovery, development, and learning.
• Design for product adoption, usage, and learning beyond just release, driving Go-To-Market strategies, cross-departmental collaboration, and post-release learning.
• Minimum 3 years of product management experience in internet services.
• Basic knowledge of software development (e.g., Agile) and experience collaborating with engineering teams.
• Experience extracting insights through data analysis using tools like SQL.

Skills

• AI utilization
• Product discovery
• Value delivery
• Hypothesis validation
• Prototyping
• Data analysis
• Customer insights
• Decision-making
• KPI management
• Agile development
• SQL
• Cross-border e-commerce knowledge
• CtoC marketplace knowledge
• EC/Commerce domain knowledge
• Stakeholder management
• A/B testing
• Team management

Location

• Roppongi

Work Type

• Full-time
• Flex-time (no core hours)

Experience Level

• 3+ years of product management experience in internet services

About the Company

• Mercari Group aims to create a richer society by circulating all forms of value, expanding the possibilities for everyone.
• Founded in 2013 from a challenge identified during the founder's world trip, Mercari is a flea market app.
• We believe that by circulating all value, not just physical goods or money, we can increase options for people to achieve their goals and contribute to society.
• We connect people worldwide through the power of technology to realize a world where everyone's potential can be realized.
• The Marketplace business aims to achieve the Mercari Group's mission by driving growth in various businesses through the creation of customer value and generating new value.
• We operate Japan's largest flea market service, Mercari, and drive the Mercari Group's mission through cross-border and various new businesses.
• The Metadata team tackles the core challenge of ensuring product data is correctly structured so customers can find what they need and sellers can price items appropriately.
• We aim to maximize speed and customer value simultaneously with an AI-first development approach.
• Product Managers focus on critical problem discovery and business outcomes within small, autonomous teams.

Equal Opportunity

• Mercari aims to create a society where individuals can freely create value without their potential being limited by their background.
• Inclusion & Diversity is essential for Mercari to achieve its mission.
• We are committed to eliminating all discrimination based on age, gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, physical ability, or any other characteristic in our hiring activities.
• We strive to hire individuals with diverse backgrounds who resonate with Mercari's mission and values.