Product Manager (Native Japanese Speaker)

About BoostDraft

BoostDraft is a software engineering company that develops IDE for documents. It was founded by MIT and Stanford grad students, developing an assisted document editor for documents. It is a new document editor that employs error checking, reference checking and auto-completion using both rule-based approach and NLP, like what coding editors / IDE (e.g. VSCode, Pycharm) do.

Demo is in the pitch deck https : / / link.boostdraft.com / gnop

Background & Traction

We are currently focusing on Lawyers who draft relatively standardized but long documents, such as contracts. With only three years after our product launch, we already have more than 8,000 active paid users. We have several long-term, large-scale contracts with famed enterprises and law firms. As a result, we achieved significant success, including profitability and exponential growth, all without relying on external funding for nearly four years.

Join our Engineering-First Team

At BoostDraft, we prioritize quality over quantity. As an engineering-first company. Around 70% of our team members are software engineers with extensive experiences from companies such as Microsoft, IBM, HTC, Yahoo!, and R&D in NTT. Our CEO, Yohei, who has proven experience in both Software Engineering and Business management, has built an organization that values and empowers software engineers.

Why BoostDraft?

Join a company that values innovation, research, and organic growth.

At BoostDraft, we offer :

• Extensive Opportunities for extending our software : Similar to VS Code, our software has multiple opportunities in adjacent area, such as Version management, Comparison, Extension, and integration with other software
• Focus on R&D for new technology : We heavily focus on research for knowledge extraction leveraging user data
• An Engineering-first approach : The CEO is also a software engineer and over 70% of members are software engineers. We believe in empowering our engineers and providing them with the resources they need to succeed.
• Rapid organic growth : We have experienced 300% revenue growth, are profitable, and have achieved this without outside investment. All of our revenue is coming from referrals by users, no marketing efforts

Notable Achievements

BoostDraft was accepted by prestigious accelerator program :

Technical Challenges We Solve

What’s your challenges

As a Product Manager at BoostDraft, you will be responsible for managing the development and launch of new features.

C#,（一部）Rust, Python

FW】 Material Design (UI), .NET Framework 4.8, .NET 8.0

DB】 SQLite, Amazon RDS

AWS CloudWatch, Elasticsearch + Kibana, BigQuery

CI / CD】 GitHub, GitHub Actions（Self-hosted runner (Windows)）, Azure DevOps

Japanese Articles :

Tech Blog (Japanese) :

https : / / zenn.dev / p / boostdraft

Culture Blog (Japanese) :

https : / / note.com / boostdraft

Ensuring a Fair and Secure Recruitment Process :

In recent years, there has been a growing number of applications submitted with fake or AI-generated profiles, including fabricated work history or impersonated identities. At BoostDraft, we are committed to providing a fair and secure hiring process for all candidates and have implemented the following measures :

These measures are applied equally to all candidates to ensure a trustworthy and fair hiring environment. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.

If you have any concerns or questions regarding these measures, please feel free to contact our recruiting team.

Requirements

Skills

Language Requirement

Academic Background

Nice-to-have

Benefits

Visa and Relocation

Our teams are working fully remotely, and we are expanding our global presence. While our headquarters are currently in Japan, relocation to Japan is not mandatory. If you wish to relocate, we are happy to help you obtain a visa.

Working Arrangement

For employees residing near Tokyo, there may be opportunities to work in person several times a month

Others

Home, or any other place equivalent to home

There is a possibility of commuting to a location designated by the company due to business reasons

5-day workweek（Saturday, Sunday, Public Holidays / End of Year and New Year holidays (set by company) / others set by company）

Full-time（Fixed overtime pay included）

permanent employment

6 months

Additional Details to Follow During Hiring Process