★QA leader / Global Internet Business

• Business Level Japanese Required (N2 Level)

✦Flextime & Fully Remote Work

✦Many Foreign Employees & Global Business

✦Start-up Company

✦Aiming to promote DX in the manufacturing industry

★Annual salary: 8 million yen - 12 million yen

【About the company】

【Unleashing the potential of the manufacturing industry】

The company will create a society in which all people involved in manufacturing can maximize their inherent power.

To achieve this goal, they will create a "new mechanism" that will change the common sense of industry.

Busy with estimating and administrative tasks, lacking sales skills, and lacking information and networks.

By untying these shackles, the potential of each company can be unleashed.

From small factories in town, to large manufacturers with a long history, to start-ups in their early years, all manufacturing companies will shine by leveraging their strengths to create new value.

They will continue to take on the challenge to open up such a future.

◆Flat organization

Regardless of your position, team, previous experience, gender, age, etc., you can express your opinions and immediately incorporate what is good.

◆Excellent members

The team is made up of members who have been active in leading companies. You will have an environment where there is a growth and stimulation every day.

◆Engineer Driven

Since they are operating in a field where there are no precedents yet in the world, technical skills are extremely important, and engineers play a leading role.

◎A service that uses automated quotation technology to connect custom-orderers with processing companies.

The manufacturing industry is Japan's key industry, boasting a gross domestic product of 180 trillion yen.

In fact, about 120 trillion yen of that is accounted for by the cost of parts procurement.

Despite this large percentage, there has been no major innovation in the procurement field for over 100 years.

In particular, parts procurement for the high-mix low-volume production industry, which accounts for about one-third of the total, has been facing various social issues on both the ordering and receiving sides, such as the time and effort required for ordering and quotation, procurement costs, and the high deficit ratio on the production side.

They believed that by solving these problems, manufacturers not only in Japan but also around the world would be able to focus on higher value-added work and maximize the potential of the manufacturing industry as a whole.

So, the company developed the world's first service that uses automated quotation technology to connect custom-orderers with processing companies.

【 Job Description】

With the mission of "Unleashing the Potential of the Manufacturing Industry," the company is developing two businesses: CADDi MANUFACTURING, a one-stop partner for procurement and manufacturing, and CADDi DRAWER, a product that converts data in the supply chain into assets.

CADDi DRAWER, launched in 2022, uses machine learning and other technologies to structure drawing data, which is said to be the most important data in the manufacturing industry, and link it to various information, making it possible to use it as an information asset. It is already being used by customers ranging from major domestic manufacturers to processing companies, and sales have begun overseas (in the U.S. and Vietnam) from 2023.

In order to continue to take on the challenge of revolutionizing the global manufacturing industry in the future, engineering that balances stable service operation and technological innovation is necessary.The company is looking for a QA Manager who will define the quality that should be achieved by CADDi's products and work with development members to improve quality, as they will be required to take on the highly challenging challenge of scaling globally without reducing the density of their technical capabilities.

■Responsibilities

You will be responsible for leading the development and execution of QA strategies for CADDi DRAWER, a cloud service for utilizing drawing data, and related products.

Your mission is to continuously provide value to clients and earn their trust by leading the QA strategy, discussing and collaborating with stakeholders from a broad perspective that goes beyond "how to ensure quality and how to improve processes" to "why quality is important and what we should be concerned about now.

You will be responsible for the following specific examples of work, but the scope of work is not limited to the following.

Defining the ideal quality based on the product vision, business strategy, and organizational status

Establishment of QA system and structure to achieve the mission (including training and hiring of QA members)

Formulation of test strategy and lead test planning, design, and execution

Reviewing product specifications from a quality perspective and proposing improvements

Continuous testing promotion of automated and manual testing throughout the software delivery process

Raising other quality-related issues and planning and promoting measures

■About the Team

You will be assigned to the CADDi DRAWER Group.

Currently, QA is part of the Enabling Team, which includes members responsible for QA, SRE, Architecture, and Data management.

Currently, there is only one dedicated QA member who transferred from development in October 2023, and the QA organization is in the 0 to 1 start-up phase.

The person who joins the company in this position will also be responsible for proposing and building the ideal QA structure.

Improving quality and other non-functional requirements is a key goal of not only the Enabling Team but also the entire development organization. Therefore, CTO Kobashi and other members of the CTO Office will provide full support.

■About CADDi DRAWER Group

About 50 engineers are involved in development.

Team structure: About 10 teams including various function development, data infrastructure development, machine learning/ML Ops, and enabling (QA, SRE, Architecture, Data management).

Not only the QA team, but also the SRE and the entire development team face and discuss quality issues.

Multinational organization: 20% of development members are from overseas (Asia, Europe, North America, etc.). Some teams communicate mainly in English, and important meetings are held in both Japanese and English. They are trying to create an organization in which multinational members can play an active role.

■Experience gained in this position

Experience playing a central role in improving quality in a rapidly growing product

Experience in a QA role in a global business organization

Experience in launching and strengthening a QA organization

Experience working with highly motivated team members to tackle challenging issues

【 Requirements】

【Required】

Experience leading the development and implementation of QA strategies

Japanese language skills at business level or above (JLPT N2 or above)

【Preferred】

Experience in development and QA of large systems across multiple teams

Experience in designing and implementing test processes in a development organization in accordance with standards such as ISTQB, ISO 29119, etc. and common QA practices

Experience in people management of QA teams

Experience in QA in an agile development organization

Ability to communicate in English for business purposes

【Ideal Applicants】

Empathy with the company's mission of "Unleashing the Potential of the Manufacturing Industry

Able to discuss with management, development team, and other stakeholders from a broad perspective that goes beyond "how to ensure quality and how to improve processes" to "why quality is important and what we should be concerned about now".

Able to face the essential issues and take actions to solve them with a sense of ownership.

Able to work with a positive attitude and engage in constructive discussions in a rapidly changing and uncertain environment.

Communicate and discuss with an attitude of respect for others, taking into consideration their context and resolution

【Working Time 】

Flextime System

【 Welfare 】

・Full social insurance

・Commuting allowance (up to 30,000 yen)

・Vacation (summer vacation, year-end and New Year's vacation, refreshment vacation, bereavement vacation, etc.)

・Subsidies (moving subsidies, child allowances, marriage congratulation money, etc.)

・Medical checkups

・Office medicine

・Office convenience store

・Learning support (book purchase system, language learning support, manufacturing experience, external training support, etc.)

・Company-wide awards

・Club activities

・Engineers can apply for a PC and display with their desired specifications.

※The maximum amount is 400,000 yen, within which you can also purchase accessories for the PC.

※The PC replacement cycle should be at least two years.

【 Holiday 】

• Saturday/Sunday/National Holiday
• Annual Paid Leave
• New Year Holiday
• Special Paid Leave
• Congratulations & Condolence Leave
• Bereavement Leave
• Refresh Leave
• Summer Holiday