Treasure Data:

At Treasure Data, we’re on a mission to radically simplify how companies use data and AI to create connected customer experiences. Our intelligent customer data platform (CDP) drives revenue growth and operational efficiency across the enterprise to deliver powerful business outcomes.

We are thrilled that Forrester has recognized Treasure Data as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Data Platforms For B2C. It's an honor to be acknowledged for our efforts in advancing the CDP industry with cutting-edge AI and real-time capabilities.

Furthermore, Treasure Data employees are enthusiastic, data-driven, and customer-obsessed. We are a team of drivers—self-starters who take initiative, anticipate needs, and proactively jump in to solve problems. Our actions reflect our values of honesty, reliability, openness, and humility.

Your Role

We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing team in our Tokyo office, working at the intersection of our Realtime and Personalization products (TypeScript, Kotlin). This is a pivotal moment for our platform: you will guide squads as they build AI-native components—developing true, industry-leading systems that empower marketers to build in new ways. 

In this role you will be Realtime’s people leader for the Tokyo office as well as a delivery owner for squad-based projects. You will not only manage the careers of local engineers but also actively drive the execution of cross-functional squads.  You will partner with Tech Leads to co-pilot projects, owning the "Who" and "When" of delivery while the Tech Lead owns the "What" and “How.”

• Serve as the day-to-day management presence in Tokyo—ensuring team health and that their voice is heard, creating clarity, continuity, and support for the team even when they will work with peers outside of the Japan time zone.

• Assist in staffing cross-timezone full stack squads to meet the requirements of prioritized projects and ensure that the squad is optimized for delivering end-to-end.

• Work with technical leads and engineers directly to break down the roadmap and product requirements for delivery.

• Partner with the tech leads, TPM and PMs to drive project execution, taking joint ownership of the timeline, scope, and delivery milestones.

• Act as a primary owner of the agile process, ensuring a predictable shipping cadence for at least one cross-timezone squad and remove blockers so the squad can focus on execution and delivery.

• Champion our engineering culture. You will ensure our operating model scales effectively as we bridge the gap between Tokyo and Vancouver teams.

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders in other regions—ensuring local team sustainability with departmental commitments and priorities.

• Promote an async-first model and ensure cross-timezone squads can operate sustainably.

• Join our on-call rotation as an escalation point to ensure the right engineer can be brought online if a PagerDuty alert is missed.

About You:

• Experience working with highly distributed teams across significant time zone differences.

• You are comfortable with Japanese engineering culture and ready to apply modern Agile methodology.

• You communicate with nuance and respect while driving crisp decisions.

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, with 3+ years in people management.

• You are a "person-first" leader who sets clear expectations and coaches with candor.

• Familiarity with our stack (TypeScript, Kotlin, Rails, AWS) is a strong plus.

• Business-level English proficiency is required. You can effectively communicate complex concepts to stakeholders.

Physical Requirements:

3 days at Treasure Data Office

About Treasure Data:

Treasure Data is the Intelligent Customer Data Platform (CDP) built for enterprise scale and powered by AI. Recognized as a Leader by Forrester and IDC, Treasure Data empowers the world’s largest and most innovative companies to deliver hyper-personalized customer experiences at scale that increase revenue, reduce costs, and build trust.
Through unique capabilities such as the Diamond Record, AI Agent Foundry, and AI Decisioning with Real-Time Personalization, Treasure Data enables marketing and CX teams to personalize cross-channel engagement in real-time, optimize marketing spend while increasing ROI, and drive customer lifetime value through more intelligent retention and loyalty.

Our Dedication to You:

We value and promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in all aspects of our business and at all levels. Success comes from acknowledging, welcoming, and incorporating diverse perspectives.

Diverse representation alone is not the desired outcome. We also strive to create an inclusive culture that encourages growth, ownership of your role, and achieving innovation in new and unique ways. Your voice will be heard, and we will help amplify it.

Agencies and Recruiters:

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