Regional Product Expert, Japan

Xsolla
Tokyo
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Stakeholder management"]

Product Owner responsible for localizing and owning Japanese market products, aligning global Xsolla strategy with Japan-specific needs. You’ll lead discovery with local partners, tailor features and documentation to Japanese realities, analyze user and business data for feature decisions, and bridge design, success, data, and engineering to deliver a roadmap in English and Japanese for D2C gaming solutions.

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Xsolla
Xsolla
1 year ago

Regional Product Expert, Japan

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Job Summary

Product Owner responsible for localizing and owning Japanese market products, aligning global Xsolla strategy with Japan-specific needs. You’ll lead discovery with local partners, tailor features and documentation to Japanese realities, analyze user and business data for feature decisions, and bridge design, success, data, and engineering to deliver a roadmap in English and Japanese for D2C gaming solutions.
Location: Tokyo
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management

Key Responsibilities

  • •Maintain full-cycle ownership of Japanese products and adaptations of D2C solutions
  • •Lead product discovery with local partners to prioritize features
  • •Adapt features, interfaces, flows, and documentation to Japanese realities
  • •Collect and analyze user and business analytics for features, activities, and A/B tests
  • •Bridge global Xsolla product strategy with local market realities, maintaining roadmaps and bilingual documentation (English and Japanese) in collaboration with Design, Success, Data and Engineering teams

Key Requirements

  • •Experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in the Japanese market for at least 3 years
  • •Experience in the gaming industry (development, publishing or platforms)
  • •Deep understanding of monetization models in the Japanese market: Gacha, Subscriptions & LiveOps, D2C (Web Shops, external top-ups, in-game campaigns)
  • •Knowledge of key payment instruments in Japan: Konbini, Line Pay, Carrier Billing
  • •Proficiency in Japanese at least JLPT-N2 level and English at upper-intermediate level and above
Experience:3+ yearsGamingJapanMonetizationD2C
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationStakeholder management
Languages:JapaneseEnglish
Tech Stack:BIAnalyticsA/B testing

Company Brief

Xsolla
Provides payment, billing, distribution and commerce solutions for video game developers and publishers, enabling in-game purchases, store infrastructure, fraud protection, and global payment processing to monetize games across platforms and regions.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2005
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