Senior Engineering Manager, Core Platform, UI/UX

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:
The Core Platform function provides the software development collaboration environment to the greater Toyota organization in order to accelerate Toyota’s mobility businesses. The platform features include software development tools, intellectual property segregation framework and the multiple paths to manage the user access,

The UI/UX team is responsible for the comprehensive, intuitive and consistent user experiences for our customers to use the collaboration platform. The team provides the web portal service to the customers. The team is also responsible for the common reusable components so that the internal engineers are able to easily enhance and contribute to the front-end services.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?:
You are an engineering manager experienced in delivering complex projects and have first hand experience where and how to provide the best-in-class UI and UX from the software engineering standpoint. You are focused on customer value and obsessive about working to understand the actual problems engineers are trying to solve. You get agreement from your team, help share software design discussions, and lead delivery of features. You define metrics to track adoption and usage of what you deliver and work tirelessly to enhance value over time. You define strategic goals for the team ensuring features are aligned, minimizing throw away work and refactoring, including the cross functional alignment. You understand industry-leading UI/UX engineering technologies and trends charting a vision for the team that inspires and motivates.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Define and lead the vision for the UI/UX design philosophy and the software architecture for the reusability in Cloud & AI products

• Manage the UI/UX engineering team, working with product management to break down high-level problems into implementation plans that can then be delivered

• Delivery ownership: Manage timelines, resources and budgets to ensure successful feature delivery

• Ensure organizational health through goal setting, progress monitoring, and promoting growth and training

• Manage technical debt to achieve long term sustainable velocity through architectural consistency and reuse

• Occasionally contribute to the development of the product to keep current with the technologies, product architecture and challenges of the team members

• Identify and address technical challenges and roadblocks

• Improve engineering excellence across the team. Encourage best practices for maintainable code, including automated testing, continuous integration, code style conformity, and code reviews

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• B.S., M.S. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field

• 7+ years of professional software development with 3+ years of experience managing a technical team, including the people and career management

• Experience building and operating B2B/B2E/B2C front-end web applications

• Experience with CI/CD tools, test automation, build tools development, IaC, cloud infrastructure

• Experience with agentic-based development

NICE TO HAVES:
• Experience as a UI/UX designer

• Ability to communicate in Japanese for the business

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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.