Culturalization Engineer
The Challenge
Japan R&D is looking for a Culturalization Engineer for the Adobe Marketing Cloud. As a Culturalization Engineer, you will work with people from various roles to access business opportunities (why to build,) and architect region-specific / cultural-specific features (what to build) that enables greater penetration of world class software solutions.
You’re the one to fill the gap between technology and culture with innovations.
What you'll do
- Work closely with non-Engineering staff (Product Managers, Sales, Business Dev, Marketing) to collate market requirements and translate them into technical architectures and define “what to build”
- Propose short term Culturalization items, and plan for mid-to-long term Culturalization items within the 3 growth areas (revenue, customer requirements, and Adobe Japan’s long-term vision/strategy)
- Work with internal developers and engineering managers at product side to break down the engineering work required, and estimate the resource and skill sets required
- Earn trust and establish a strong relationship with core product engineering teams with technical competency and diplomatic skills, petition for Culturalization enhancements to be adopted into main-line product source base with your sound planning and end-to-end delivery
- Evangelize to product dev teams and pitch “how a Culturalization proposal would improve product acceptance and increase market penetration in Japan”
- Act as a leader for Culturalization projects, work with overseas engineers to develop and integrate components into main-line releases and deliver to Japan market in a timely manner
- Communicate effectively in both English and Japanese to different groups across different geographies (India, Europe, U.S.)
- Proactively searching for internal / external learning opportunities to ensure sufficient enablement for project members and yourself, so that the team can architect and develop quickly
- Investigate new Adobe technology and examine the availability to Japanese market
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
- Able to communicate in English and Japanese, written and verbal, with technical and business acumen
- At least 8+ years of software development experience including architect, coding, web application development and testing. (Java, Java Script, HTML, PHP, etc.)
- At least 3+ years of adapting software to fit into another culture
- Proficient at translating customer or market requirements into technical architecture and design and implementation plans
- Experience with interacting and working with staff in other functions and other geographies
- Expert knowledge of software localization
- Proficient at effectively tracking and communicating status
