The posting
About Woven by Toyota
Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.
Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.
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TEAM
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own a Venture: Own one venture from beta through commercialization and early scale while contributing to future PoCs and prototypes
- Transform Reality into Products: Translate customer reality and Toyota-scale operational learnings into reusable product capabilities, requirements, roadmaps, and intuitive UX
- Lead Engineering: Own external engineering delivery, architecture, security, quality, CI/CD, and technical decision-making
- Commercialize the Product: Drive adoption, product-market fit, onboarding, and monetization through analytics, experimentation, and customer learning
- Create the Next Venture: Identify new customer problems and validate technical and market hypotheses for future ventures
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on Engineering: Deep early-career software engineering experience building production systems
- Engineering Leadership: Experience leading engineering delivery before or alongside product management
- Product Delivery: Experience taking B2B software from discovery through commercialization and continuous improvement
- Technical Judgment: Strong capability across architecture, cloud, APIs, security, CI/CD, and external engineering management
- Communication & Ownership: Native-level Japanese proficiency sufficient to understand context and nuance, business-level English proficiency sufficient to exchange information within the team, and the ability to thrive in an ambiguous startup environment
NICE TO HAVES
- Experience taking a software product from zero to one, from beta to paid launch, or from early adoption to scale in a startup or founding team
- Experience in industrial software, energy management, climate tech, manufacturing, IoT, time-series data, digital twins, or operational technology
- Hands-on or management experience with AI/ML products, data platforms, blockchain-based data trust, or high-volume sensor data
- Experience partnering closely with product designers and improving complex B2B workflows through user research and product analytics
- Experience with pricing, packaging, monetization, billing, or enterprise SaaS commercialization
- Experience working across Japanese and international teams, customers, and technology partners
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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.



