- Workplace
- Onsite
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Marketing
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Vincere
Description
Career Opportunity for a Forward Deployed Engineer in Japan!
■ Forward Deployed Engineer
■ Company Overview
An investment-focused organization at the intersection of technology, AI, and business transformation, working to drive operational excellence and innovation across portfolio companies.
■ Your Role and Responsibilities
● As a core member of the management team, you will hold ultimate technical responsibility for increasing the value of our portfolio companies.
Specifically, you will:
● Report directly to the two Co-CEOs and serve as a permanent member of the Management Committee. You will inject a technical perspective into investment decisions, PMI (Post-Merger Integration) design, budgeting, and organizational structuring.
● Participate in deals right from the Due Diligence (DD) phase. Prior to an acquisition, you will evaluate operational efficiency opportunities and AI compatibility, standing alongside the Co-CEOs to assess the viability of post-acquisition value creation.
● Lead operational redesign and AI implementation post-acquisition by splitting your time between hands-on, on-site immersion at portfolio companies and company headquarters. You will be responsible for ensuring that operational improvements actually materialize on the ground.
● Build the company Internal Tools; repository as an institutional asset, extracting reusable components from individual projects to scale horizontally across multiple portfolios.
● Direct Reporting to Co-CEOs: Tech roles with permanent seats on the Management Committee are exceptionally rare in Japanese PE funds and corporate landscapes.
● Pioneer Hire: As the first member of the FDE team, you will build the engineering organization from scratch, defining internal asset standards, hiring benchmarks, and evaluation systems.
● Cross-Cutting Impact: Rather than optimizing a single company, you bring technical capabilities and strategic judgment that scale horizontally across the entire portfolio.
● An Environment That Values the Choice “Not to Use AI”: We deeply value the integrity and judgment required to honestly tell a client, “This specific process should not be automated with AI.”
■ Experience and Qualifications
● Experience with vibe coding and quality control using generative AI is required.
● Tool experience: Experience using no-code/low-code tools (Make, Glide, Retool, Notion, Airtable, Dify, etc.)
● Basic knowledge of AI application infrastructure such as RAG/LLM/API
● Basic technical understanding of JSON, spreadsheet functions, and Google Apps Script.
● Experience in design/UI adjustment (Figma, STUDIO, etc.)
● Experience in automation and in-house development projects (e.g., building business improvement tools)
● Experience leading the launch of a new product and putting it on a growth trajectory.
● Basic knowledge and understanding of engineering
● Product development experience for SaaS products or large-scale systems.
● Understanding of natural language processing technologies such as GPT, Lambda, and BERT
● Knowledge and practical experience in Generative AI and Transformer models.
■ Good Reasons to Join
● Overseeing organization, discipline, and execution as an executive leader.
■ Work Location
Tokyo, Japan
Details will be provided during the meeting.