Senior Engineering Manager, Core Platform, UI/UX

Team: Cloud & AI

Location: Tokyo

Commitment: Employee

Workplace Type: hybrid

TEAM

The Core Platform function provides the software development collaboration environment to the greater Toyota organization in order to accelerate Toyota’s mobility businesses. The platform features include software development tools, intellectual property segregation framework and the multiple paths to manage the user access,
 
The UI/UX team is responsible for the comprehensive, intuitive and consistent user experiences for our customers to use the collaboration platform. The team provides the web portal service to the customers. The team is also responsible for the common reusable components so that the internal engineers are able to easily enhance and contribute to the front-end services.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

You are an engineering manager experienced in delivering complex projects and have first hand experience where and how to provide the best-in-class UI and UX from the software engineering standpoint. You are focused on customer value and obsessive about working to understand the actual problems engineers are trying to solve. You get agreement from your team, help share software design discussions, and lead delivery of features. You define metrics to track adoption and usage of what you deliver and work tirelessly to enhance value over time. You define strategic goals for the team ensuring features are aligned, minimizing throw away work and refactoring, including the cross functional alignment. You understand industry-leading UI/UX engineering technologies and trends charting a vision for the team that inspires and motivates.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Define and lead the vision for the UI/UX design philosophy and the software architecture for the reusability in Cloud & AI products
Manage the UI/UX engineering team, working with product management to break down high-level problems into implementation plans that can then be delivered
Delivery ownership: Manage timelines, resources and budgets to ensure successful feature delivery
Ensure organizational health through goal setting, progress monitoring, and promoting growth and training
Manage technical debt to achieve long term sustainable velocity through architectural consistency and reuse
Occasionally contribute to the development of the product to keep current with the technologies, product architecture and challenges of the team members
Identify and address technical challenges and roadblocks
Improve engineering excellence across the team. Encourage best practices for maintainable code, including automated testing, continuous integration, code style conformity, and code reviews

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

B.S., M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field
7+ years of professional software development with 3+ years of experience managing a technical team, including the people and career management
Experience building and operating B2B/B2E/B2C front-end web applications
Experience with CI/CD tools, test automation, build tools development, IaC, cloud infrastructure
Experience with agentic-based development

NICE TO HAVES

Experience as a UI/UX designer
Ability to communicate in Japanese for the business