product-designer

Mercari Group is a Japan-based corporate group operating in both Japan and the US under a mission of “create value in a global marketplace where anyone can buy & sell.” Mercari Group operates several businesses. The first is Mercari, Japan’s largest marketplace app allowing anyone to enjoy easily buying and selling items from their smartphone. Additionally, the Group offers Merpay, a simple, entirely in-app payment service, and Mercari Shops (Souzoh), an e-commerce platform for small businesses. Most recently, the Group established Merlogi as well, as a new company to bring greater innovation to the logistics industry going forward.

Mercari, Inc.

• 決済金融サービス「メルペイ」と、暗号資産・ブロックチェーンサービス「メルコイン」を起点として、フリマアプリ「メルカリ」におけるプロダクト全体構造を理解し、新たな機能を融合させるためのUX設計
• 「メルペイ・メルコイン」のUX/UIデザイン（iOS／Androidアプリ、デスクトップ／モバイルWebサイト）
• コンシューマ向け／ビジネス向けサービス両方の仕様策定

Product Designer

Product Designer at Merpay designing UX/UI for payment and crypto services with a focus on the Mercari app. Collaborating to integrate new features and improve customer experience.

SmartNews is a company focused on delivering quality news and information to users around the world. With a mission to provide social infrastructure through news, SmartNews aims to contribute positively to society by offering a platform that bridges language and cultural gaps. The company has a strong presence in Japan and is expanding globally, with offices located in major cities such as Tokyo, San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Beijing, and Shanghai. SmartNews emphasizes data-driven decision-making and outcome-oriented actions to accomplish their goals of spreading quality information. It is led by co-founder and CEO Kaisei Hamamoto, and prioritizes collaboration and responsibility within its team to ensure the organization's success.

SmartNews is the award-winning news app loved by millions. We are a machine learning driven company deeply committed to helping users find quality news beyond the filter bubble.

Our algorithms evaluate tens of millions of articles, behaviors and social interactions to deliver only the most interesting and important stories on a global scale—a fascinating engineering challenge that has attracted a world-class data science and engineering team. 

 We have offices in Tokyo, San Francisco, Palo Alto, New York, Shanghai and Beijing.

Join our international culture—smart work, smart people and a global mission to bring quality information to the world. Travel between our amazing offices in the U.S. and Japan, and collaborate with coworkers from around the world.

SmartNews

• スマートニュースのデザインチームは、ユーザー中心のデザインを通じて、人々のニュース消費のあり方を革新することを目指しています。
• 数百万人の日本のユーザーの日常的なニュース体験を形づくる、エンドツーエンドのデザインソリューションを担当します。
• ユーザーのニーズとビジネス目標の架け橋となり、インサイトを直感的かつインパクトのある機能へと落とし込みます。
• コアUXの強化、ナビゲーション設計の改善に取り組み、ストレスを減らし、エンゲージメントの最大化を目指します。
• プロダクトマネージャーやエンジニアと密接に連携し、洗練されたビジュアルと優れた機能性を両立したプロダクトの実現を目指します。

プロダクトデザイナー

Product Designer in SmartNews' design team, shaping news experiences for millions of users in Japan. Focusing on user-centered design to enhance engagement and provide excellent information.

• Own the end-to-end design for buyer-facing experiences, from discovery and problem framing through execution and launch.
• Act as Lead Designer for assigned product areas, setting experience direction and design quality standards.
• Translate ambiguous business and user problems into clear experience strategies, flows, and high-quality UI.
• Drive design decisions through strong craft, systems thinking, and user-centered rationale.
• Collaborate deeply with PM, Eng, and UXR to shape product direction and influence roadmaps.
• Identify gaps and opportunities beyond the immediate scope and proactively propose new ideas, concepts, or improvements.
• Contribute to and evolve shared design systems, patterns, and best practices.
• Provide thoughtful feedback and mentorship to other designers, raising the overall quality of work.

Senior Product Designer – Marketplace

Senior Product Designer leading end-to-end user experience design for Mercari's Japanese marketplace. Collaborates with teams to shape problem spaces and define design quality.

Drivemode enables smarter, safer, connected driving in any vehicle.
Driving technology always feels old. Not by a little bit. Years and years out of date. Is that really just “the way things are”? We don’t think so and we’re here to fix that.
We believe vehicles can be 1000x smarter, safer, and more connected to the world around us. We’ve started on this mission by building a mobile-based connected vehicle platform used by millions of drivers in over 150 countries.
In 2019, we joined forces with Honda as their first startup acquisition, and now we’re expanding our vision by bringing together software and hardware to build new products that solve real needs for millions of drivers around the world.
As software becomes the defining factor in the driving experience, our team of world-class software professionals is striving to accelerate innovation and bring fundamental changes to the automotive industry.

Drivemode

• Partner with product management, engineering, and business development on the development of new products for Honda Motors
• Get your hands dirty by wireframing, prototyping, and designing end-to-end product features by using data, market research, and AB Testing
• Work with senior management and business partners at Honda as a thought leader
• Help maintain high design standards by constantly challenging the team with thoughtful critique
• Provide effective leadership as a senior member of the design team.
• Help recruit and mentor new designers
• Freedom to test new ideas and push boundaries

Lead Product Designer

Lead Product Designer defining user interaction for Honda's innovative vehicle software solutions in a hybrid workspace. Collaborating with product management and engineering teams while mentoring new designers.

Woven by Toyota is a company at the forefront of Toyota's transformation, pioneering advancements in the movement of people, goods, information, and energy. With a focus on creating a more connected, intelligent, and empowered world through human-centered innovation, Woven by Toyota challenges the status quo and drives the future of mobility. Its areas of focus include enabling high-quality automotive software through the ARENE OS, developing safer and smarter mobility services with AD/ADAS technologies, constructing a futuristic city as a test course for mobility in WOVEN CITY, and investing in mobility startups via WOVEN CAPITAL.

Woven by Toyota will help to deliver the safest, most intelligent mobility experiences and lifestyle for Toyota customers everywhere. At Woven by Toyota, we envision a human-centered future, where world-class technology expands global access to mobility, enhances the capabilities of drivers, and empowers people to thrive. We achieve this with a unique global culture that weaves modern Silicon Valley innovation with Japanese quality craftsmanship. As society, technology and customer needs evolve, we continuously pursue new ways to create a more personal, seamless experience for customers.

Woven by Toyota

• デザインリーダーシップ & ビジョン
 ・AUXチームの各プロジェクトにおけるUIデザインおよびビジュアル表現のクリエイティブビジョンを定義・推進
 ・長期的な進化に対応できる柔軟なデザインフレームワーク・システムの構築
 ・近未来の量産案件から将来的なコンセプト開発まで、一貫性と革新性の両立を実現
• クロスファンクショナルコラボレーション
 ・トヨタのグローバルデザイン組織（VID、TMNA、TME、TMC）と連携し、デザインの方向性と実装を整合
 ・リーダーシップ、クリエイティブチーム、エンジニア間の架け橋として、デザイン品質を量産に落とし込む
 ・グローバルコラボレーションにおけるAUXデザインチームの代表として、信頼と協調関係を構築
• メンターシップ & チーム育成
 ・チーム内外において、クリエイティビティとクラフトマンシップを尊重する文化を醸成
 ・AUXデザインチームマネージャーと協働し、ビジョン策定と日々のデリバリーのバランスを取る
 ・探究心・実験的思考・高品質なアウトプットを重視するデザイン文化を推進
• 戦略的貢献
 ・AUXリーダーシップチームの一員として、デザイン品質・ビジョン・組織横断的なコラボレーションを推進
 ・量産案件への貢献に加え、次世代コンセプト開発におけるイノベーションパートナーとしてのAUXの価値を強化
 ・デザインをトヨタのモビリティ戦略における重要な差別化要素として位置づけ、ブランドアイデンティティと信頼を体現

ビジュアルクリエイティブリード – Advanced UX

• Promote a small team (10 or less) of diverse members to drive product improvements
• Manage and improve service operation costs and metrics
• Appropriately communicate issues and improvements that arise on-site to the technical team, provide required specifications for improvements, and promote feature development
• Promote the proactive adoption and validation of new features and services
• Support the implementing of operations necessary to provide new services based on both technical and operational knowledge of the product

Product Manager, Service Infrastructure, Smart Logistics

SpaceCurve has created a new real-time big data platform for organizations that want to put data into context and turn it into value as quickly as it is created. With SpaceCurve, greater volumes, velocities and varieties of spatial, sensor, social media, weather, historical, and other large data sets than ever before can be continuously ingested, fused and analyzed in real time to deliver immediately actionable intelligence.

SpaceCurve

• Use your exceptional animation and design skills to create iconic, physics-driven UI animations for our novel robotics-adjacent interior design products
• Design intuitive, iconic user interfaces with fluid animations for robotics-adjacent interior design objects
• Create striking animations within stylistic constraints
• Collaborate with industrial designers and engineers to align animations with product ergonomics, functionality, and hardware capabilities
• Lead collaborations with external animation artists to create an even wider variety of effects and animations
• Develop dynamic transformations, morphing text and structured UI components into organic, unstructured shapes and effects 
• Apply deep knowledge of physics to craft energetic, organic animations
• Optimize animations for performance on resource-constrained systems

Animation Artist – Embedded UI/UX

Animation Artist responsible for creating physics-driven UI animations for innovative robotics-adjacent designs. Collaborating with designers and engineers to ensure engaging user interactions.

• Contribute to the design of ADAS feature interfaces, flows, and interaction models from concept to mass production
• Drive the unification of visual language across projects, and contribute to the evolution of team systems and processes
• Translate system-level complexity into clear, familiar, user-experiences across the cockpit through user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and detailed visual designs
• Communicate design decisions clearly to stakeholders, balancing user needs, technical constraints, and business goals
• Collaborate with a cross-functional network of design, engineering, and management stakeholders
• Drive user-centered methodologies in a technically constrained, safety-critical environment that ships at global scale
• Develop and maintain comprehensive UI design systems, style guides, and reusable component libraries
• Mentor and guide junior designers, and help develop a highly collaborative, ego-free design culture

UI/UX Designer

UI/UX Designer shaping user experience for advanced driver assistance technologies. Join a cross-functional team at Woven by Toyota in Tokyo.

• ADAS機能のインターフェース、ユーザーフロー、インタラクションモデルをコンセプトから量産までデザイン
• プロジェクト間でのビジュアル言語の統一を推進し、チームのデザインシステムおよびプロセスの改善に貢献
• システムレベルの複雑さを、わかりやすく親しみやすいユーザー体験としてコックピット全体に反映
• ユーザーニーズ、技術的制約、ビジネス目標のバランスをとりながら、ステークホルダーにデザイン意図を明確に伝達
• デザイン、エンジニアリング、マネジメントなどの多職種メンバーと連携
• 技術的制約や安全要件の厳しい環境下でも、ユーザー中心のアプローチを推進
• UIデザインシステム、スタイルガイド、再利用可能なコンポーネントライブラリの開発・管理
• ジュニアデザイナーのメンタリングおよび、協調的でエゴのないデザイン文化の醸成

UI/UX デザイナー

• 多様なメンバーで構成された少人数チーム（10名以下）を牽引し、プロダクトの改善を推進する
• サービス運営のコストや各種KPIの管理および改善をする
• 現場で発生した課題や改善内容を技術チームに適切に伝え、改善のための要求仕様を出し、機能開発を促進する
• 機能開発を行った新機能、新サービスの積極的な現場への導入と効果検証を実施する
• プロダクトに対する技術的な知見およびオペレーションの知見双方を元に新規サービスを提供する上で必要なオペレーションの構築を支援する

プロダクト・マネージャー, サービス基盤, Smart Logistics Biz&UX

Product Manager leading diverse teams to enhance services at Woven City. Engaging in operations and technology to revolutionize mobility solutions.

Hybrid Product Designers roles in Japan

Browse 10 hybrid product designers roles hiring in Japan plus related opportunities such as ux designer, graphics designer and web designer.

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Product Designer

Mercari, Inc.

プロダクトデザイナー

SmartNews

Senior Product Designer – Marketplace

Mercari, Inc.

Lead Product Designer

Drivemode

ビジュアルクリエイティブリード – Advanced UX

Woven by Toyota

Product Manager, Service Infrastructure, Smart Logistics

Woven by Toyota

Animation Artist – Embedded UI/UX

SpaceCurve

UI/UX Designer

Woven by Toyota

UI/UX デザイナー

Woven by Toyota

プロダクト・マネージャー, サービス基盤, Smart Logistics Biz&UX

Woven by Toyota