About Woven by Toyota 🚗
Woven by Toyota, a part of the Toyota Group, is challenging the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation and empowering mobility transformation. Through our AD/ADAS technology, our automotive software development platform Arene OS, our mobility test course Toyota Woven City, and Toyota’s growth fund, Woven Capital, we are pioneering the movement of people, goods, information, and energy, weaving a future of enhanced safety, connectivity, and well-being for all.
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.
The Engineering Hub Function leads technical cross-functional activities from the entire "Woven City" perspective. Our team, as one of the sub-Functions of Engineering Hub, supports internal developers in terms of the development cycle, release, and coordination over several development teams. We make standards, guidelines for the development cycle, and technically lead several teams to create synergy over them.
We are seeking talented people to join us as we take on new challenges to create new products and services for the Toyota Woven City.
For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? 🔎
We are looking for an experienced Release manager as a technical program manager.
This project is broad and challenging, requiring leadership in enhancing and improving the processes and quality of the DevOps development team as a whole. In addition, you will be in charge of the success of the release over multiple developments in our organization. You are ultimately responsible for aligning several technical teams and delivering their successful releases to maximize one of our woven city values.
We are looking for candidates who meet the following criteria:
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to achieve both agility and stability of releases in a portfolio of complex, multi-disciplinary product releases.
- Risk Control: Capable of quickly identifying risks and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Agile Mindset: Ability to apply agile methods and best practices to maximize project speed and meet development teams' needs.
- Communication: Ability to facilitate smooth communication with multiple stakeholders to drive project progress.
RESPONSIBILITIES 🛠️
- Manage product releases for multiple teams to realize agility and stability in cross-functional releases
- Ensure a robust testing process by driving the build-out of several types of software deployment environments, defining desired environments and timelines for it aiming for overall optimization
- Design, standardize, and support the implementation of CI/CD pipelines for multiple teams for overall optimization
- Develop an organizational growth roadmap for releases and define activities for holistic optimization, driving the growth of the organization about the release mechanism through continuous process improvement
- Lead technical issue solving while coordinating balance across stakeholders by working closely across multiple organizations, e.g., development, security, privacy, regulatory, architecture, and compliance teams
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 🎓
- 7+ years of experience in large-scale software development with technical expertise, especially in large-scale agile projects
- Numerous experiences improving and problem-solving projects based on technical expertise
- Experience managing release processes and ability to coordinate to meet project deadlines
- Experience leading software development teams as a technical lead
- In-depth knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub, CI/CD, Terraform, etc., and experience with CI/CD tools
- Fundamental infrastructure knowledge required to manage deployment and development environments (knowledge of cloud platforms and container technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Ability to communicate smoothly, both verbally and in writing, with members and stakeholders who have diverse opinions
NICE TO HAVES ✨
- Experience as a release train engineer, as well as relevant qualifications
- Extensive experience in design, implementation, and management of CI/CD pipelines
- Advanced knowledge of version control systems, particularly Git and GitHub
- Knowledge of security, privacy, and compliance
- Problem-solving skills, troubleshooting, and effective debugging abilities
- Understanding of DevSecOps practices and security best practices
- Business-level Japanese
Important Points 📝
- All interviews will be arranged via Google Meet unless otherwise stated.
- The same job descriptions are available in both English and Japanese; therefore, we kindly ask that you apply to only one version.
- We kindly request that you submit your resume in English if possible. However, Japanese resumes are also acceptable. Please note that, depending on the English proficiency requirements of the role, we may request an English version of your resume later in the process.
WHAT WE OFFER 💼
- Competitive Salary - Based on experience
- Work Hours - Flexible working time
- Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated)
- Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated)
- Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company
- Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance
- Housing Allowance
- Retirement Benefits
- Rental Cars Support
- In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
Our Commitment 🤝
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.
- Any information we receive from you will be used only in the hiring and onboarding process. Please see our privacy notice for more details.