Recruitment Background
Fast Retailing Group is currently promoting the "Ariake Project," a company-wide transformation to become a "Digital Consumer Retail Company" that transcends the traditional framework of a retailer. We are promoting the "Ariake Project," a company-wide reform to transform ourselves into a "Digital Consumer Retail Company. To achieve this, our Digital Business Transformation Service Department is leading the company-wide business transformation not only by promoting globalization, cloud computing, and mobility using the latest technologies, but also by promoting "aggressive IT," which is IT that generates profits. This position is for a Technical Program Manager (Tech PM) who will align teams from development to release and resolve conflicting technical issues in order to scale out and expand the organization.

■ Department Overview
The mission of the Digital Business Transformation Services Department is to define the "ideal" business operations from the customer's perspective, and to lead and realize business transformation using the latest IT technologies. In order to realize the "Ariake Project", we are accelerating the in-house development of core systems centered on supply chain as well as EC and store systems. In addition to project managers, a wide range of personnel are active in this field, including in-house development engineers, data scientists, and UI/UX designers. The in-house development team consists of about 100 engineers, including front-end, back-end, DevOps, QAE, and architects, who are working together to provide optimal services for the group and globally.

Job Description
Standardize cross-team development processes for B2C EC site development
Coordinate a series of workflows including agile development, QA, staging/production release, DevOps, etc.
Coordination of development schedule priorities and roadmap for global countries in collaboration with project managers and product managers in terms of requirements
Coordinate and resolve technical issues among various development teams in a microservices environment
Facilitation and communication between engineering teams
Manage budgets and metrics for the outsourced development portion of the project.
Empowerment and career development to help engineers grow (senior level only).
Job Descriptions are subject to change within the scope of work related to each department of the headquarters due to departmental changes and reorganization.

■ Career Path
In addition to career development as a Technical Program Manager, there are plenty of opportunities for job transfers to PM/PdM positions or to other departments such as the Global Digital Commerce Department. In addition, there are many opportunities to work not only in Japan but also in overseas offices.

Required Experience, Skills, and Abilities
Hands-on development or operation experience in B2C services with a team of 10 or more engineers for at least 2-3 years.
(Web frontend / Native app / Backend / DevOps / QAE. Any type is acceptable)
Experience coordinating and leading engineering tasks that require communication in English.
Experience in organizing complex technical issues logically, identifying root causes, and resolving them
Native Japanese + English TOEIC score of 800 or above, or native English + JLPT N1 or equivalent

■Welcome Experience, Skills and Abilities
Experience giving technical presentations in public
Experience in cloud computing with major cloud services such as AWS, GCP, etc.
Experience in building commonly and universally used frameworks and libraries
・Experience in building and operating large-scale web services
Experience in building and operating supply chains such as production and logistics
Experience in development and operation with internal and external engineers
Knowledge of automation technologies such as continuous integration and continuous deployment
Experience and understanding of testing methodologies and quality control
Experience in agile development
Experience with distributed systems, highly concurrent systems, and highly available systems
Experience in training and career development of engineers (for senior level candidates only)

Preferred orientation
A desire to contribute to the growth of the team, rather than to make oneself stand out.
The ability to demonstrate hospitality to customers and internal departments without being satisfied with a defined JD.
Able to make up for lack of information and high commitment even in uncertain situations.

Company Name
Fast Retailing Corporation

Employment Status
Full-time employee (no fixed term, probationary period (3 months))

Annual salary
Annual salary range: 6.72 million yen and up (monthly salary: 420,000 yen and up)
Commuting allowance, overtime allowance, etc. (*All in accordance with our company's regulations)
Bonuses: Semiannual bonus twice a year, year-end bonus (payment and amount to be determined based on company performance and personnel evaluation)
Promotion: Twice a year (determined according to personnel evaluation)
(Whether or not and the amount will be decided based on the company's performance and personnel evaluation)

Working hours
Flextime system or management supervisor
Flextime system
Standard working hours per day ... 8 hours, break ... 1 hour
Core time ... 9:00 - 14:00
Flexible hours ... 6:00-9:00 and 14:00-20:00 with overtime

Supervisors
Based on the working hours of the department to which the employee belongs, and left to the employee's decision

Vacations and Vacations
2 days off per week (Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays correspond to working days) Annual paid vacations, special/ congratulatory/condolence leave, childcare/nursing care leave system, etc.
In addition to paid vacations, special leave is granted in the first and second terms (the number of days granted varies depending on the employment status and the company to which the employee belongs).

Insurance
Social insurance (health insurance, employee pension, unemployment insurance, workers' accident compensation insurance, nursing care insurance)

Benefits
Employee stock ownership system, Mutual aid association system, Affiliated welfare programs, Employee discount system, Cafeteria, Exclusive shuttle bus (for commuting to the Ariake office), Defined contribution pension system

Other
We are actively recruiting mid-career workers for our group companies (Fast Retailing, UNIQLO, GU, etc.). We would appreciate it if you could also check the following and consider applying.
-You may apply to multiple companies within the Fast Retailing Group at the same time. However, please note that even if you are selected for multiple companies, you will only be able to advance to the final selection process for one position at a time.
-We will consider your resume and the results of the interview, and may offer you a position in another Fast Retailing Group company or company.

Smoking is not permitted on the premises or indoors, and there are no smoking rooms or other smoking areas.

Ariake Headquarters: UNIQLO CITY, 1-6-7 Ariake, Koto-ku, Tokyo
Location may be changed to other locations as determined by the company, including overseas.