Nov 7

Job: Product Manager at Yelp – Japanese Products (San Francisco)

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Via JETAA US country rep Mike Shu who works for Yelp. Posted by Dipika Soni (Ishikawa-ken, 2003-06). Dipika has recently moved back to London but is interested in hearing about any Japan-related opportunities across the globe.

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Job Position: Product Manager – Japanese Products (San Francisco, CA)

Job Details:

At Yelp, we pride ourselves in being a hyper local product. Yelp is already available in nine countries and we’re starting to work on bringing Yelp to Japan. This role will involve customizing the Yelp product to make sure it feels truly local to our users in Japan.

We need a Product Manager who can design beautiful-but-simple features, crank out mockups and is passionate about how culturally unique different countries are. You should be fluent in Japanese and a definite plus is if you currently live in or have spent a large amount of time (at least 10 years) living in Japan.

You will:

  • Design intuitive, elegant consumer products that will be used by millions of Yelpers around the world.
  • Work with our all-star engineering teams to hone and iterate on your ideas
  • Identify, analyze and prioritize new site features that will make Yelp more local.
  • Manage the design/build/test/release process end-to-end.
  • Strive for design perfection but love to release and iterate

    • Requirements (and we mean it!):
    + Techie Cred: CS or similar degree so you can talk to our enginerds about Python, map reduce jobs, and naive Bayesian algorithms without a translator.

    + i18n Experience: Knowledge of and experience dealing with the challenges that launching a product in multiple languages creates. You will work with our engineering team on optimizing our translation and localization workflows.

    + Passion about the Space: You love the world of social networking, local search and consumer websites.

    + Non-Nerd Empathy: You’re interested in FriendFeed, Twitter, etc. as much as the next nerd, but you also recognize that you’re designing for a non-techie audience.

    + A Conditional Love for Yelp: Like a BFF or a tee ball coach, you should love us but also be able to tell us what we’re doing wrong. You’ll need to be able to dish out the criticism here and take it, too.

    + A Need for Speed: Daily release cycle? Bring it!


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