Kasagi
Kasagi is a haven for anime fans of all backgrounds, providing a platform for artists, writers, animators, musicians, programmers, and more to collaborate and celebrate their shared passion. At Kasagi, we empower one another by democratizing the process of funding, creating, and enjoying the anime art form we all treasure.
Kasagi breathes life into beloved anime characters, allowing them to share their daily routines and interact with us in their free time. This connection fosters a deep bond between fans and their favourite characters, while Kasagi acts as a gateway to preserving the essence of anime for future generations to experience and love just as we do.
Under the Kasagi brand, we are also launching anime-related lifestyle tech products in Q1 2024.
The Role
The Head of Product at Kasagi Labo is responsible for being the visionary in a cross-functional team (Engineering, Growth, Marketing) and applying the vision. While providing leadership to a global team of product talents, you will oversee all facets of the product scope to ensure that the product(s) are aligned with the company’s short and long-term business goals.
You will help define product roadmap milestones and drive new product initiatives to acquire users and drive retention worldwide across our suite of products. A successful Head of Product must be able to maintain constant alignment with all other departments within a fast-paced environment to ensure efforts are directed efficiently.
What you can expect to work on
- Attract and groom product talents for Kasagi Labo: Exceptional product talents are rare, and we need to be able to attract them
- Experiment rapidly on hypotheses: Define and drive sprints in a minimal viable experimental format that would generate insight from the initial hypothesis prior to the sprints
- Align across departments: Ensure that all other functions of Kasagi Labo are aware of the roadmap and are able to collaboratively contribute to the product’s go-to-market and iterative development
- Level up the product talents in Kasagi Labo: Coach and cultivate a diverse team of product talents constantly to the next level
- User outreach and optimising user experiences: Deliver product(s) that keeps the business goals in mind while optimising for user experiences through product tools such as user interviews and user persona exploration
What you need to succeed
- Relevant experience: Have 6+ years as a Product Manager or related role in a fast-paced iterative product environment
- Interest in Anime: Have demonstrable experience or interest in Anime and/or Anime related industries
- Communication: Have strong communication skills to align between both internal and external stakeholders
- Leadership: Have strong leadership skills to rally the team around you to deliver in a fast-paced environment
- Team player: Have a desire to take ownership of projects and work with a team that is highly driven to push them through
- Data-driven: An analytical mentality and proven experience using data to advise decisions
- Ownership: Strong mindset of taking end-to-end ownership and delivering results
- Bias to action: Champion an environment of trust, where the team prioritises disagreeing and committing to action
Benefits and why you’ll love working with us
- We Listen. Your voice, ideas, and suggestions matter to us, as we continuously evolve
- Our People. You’ll work with diverse, multicultural, international, talented, fun, supportive, and innovative people and teams. We are people you can be proud to work with
- On The Edge of Innovation. Working on the latest technological, social, and entertainment trends.
- Flat Organisation. Our team is a community, we work together as a team from all levels in a true decentralised spirit
