Technical Product Manager, Robot Platform, Robot PF Business & Strategy
Woven City Social Infrastructures & Platforms
Tokyo
hybrid
TEAM
Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.
We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.
We'll expand "mobility" not only for people but also for goods or information. Regarding the mobility of things, we believe that if we can provide a service that makes moving things incredibly easy, it could potentially change our values and lifestyles. To this end, we are developing the Robot Platform—a shared infrastructure and product suite that enables diverse services to be built and operated using robots, smart devices, operations, and simulation technology. Going forward, we will collaborate with Inventors to expand platform capabilities and propose solutions, enabling customers both inside and outside Woven City to build and deliver services quickly.
For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
This position will also require travel to the Woven City field site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture, depending on the product development phase. If you are excited about building solutions at the intersection of hardware and software, and shaping a new platform from the ground up, let's make history together.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Uncover real customer needs from Inventors and business customers, and shape them into product requirements and solution proposals
- Own the product roadmap for the assigned subsystem or feature area, including prioritization, acceptance criteria, and the "why" behind each item
- Drive solutions end-to-end, from problem definition to customer validation, leveraging the Robot Platform
- Take ownership of subsystem-level design decisions in collaboration with engineers, including spec definition and trade-off evaluation
- Identify gaps in the platform from real-world use cases and lead product improvements to close them
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of practical experience in product management, business development, or customer engagement in a similar domain
- Track record of taking customer problems from discovery through solution proposal and delivery
- Technical fluency to understand system constraints and evaluate trade-offs with engineers
- Experience owning a product or feature end-to-end
- Strong Japanese proficiency for smooth communication with customers, and business-level English to clearly provide requirements to engineers
NICE TO HAVES
- Experience launching a product from zero (MVP definition, early customer validation)
- Understanding of platform business models
- Practical experience in logistics or mobility domains
- Foundational knowledge of robotics / IoT / hardware
- Ability to drive requirements with high uncertainty: align stakeholders, concretize solutions, and carry through to validation