Solution Architect, Robot Platform, Robot PF Business & Strategy

For more information about Woven City, please visit: https://www.woven-city.global/

Who Are We Looking For?

We are looking for a Solution Architect who can bridge customer needs and platform engineering. You will work closely with Inventors and business customers to deeply understand their challenges, design solutions leveraging the Robot Platform, and drive development in collaboration with engineering teams. This role goes beyond system design—it involves transforming real-world use cases into scalable platform capabilities.

This position will also require travel to the Woven City field site in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture, depending on the product development phase. If you are excited about building solutions at the intersection of hardware and software, and shaping a new platform from the ground up, let's make history together.

Responsibilities

• Elicit and structure requirements, challenges, and constraints from Inventors and business customers, and translate them into system requirements
• Design solutions leveraging our own products based on a defined architecture
• Contribute to the design of Robot Platform features, APIs, and data models within the assigned domain based on user requirements
• Drive the design and validation of assigned features in collaboration with the engineering team
• Organize feasibility, risks, and trade-offs from a technical perspective to support customer proposals and decision-making

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+years of practical experience in BtoB SaaS, platform, or business-facing service domains
• Ability to translate customer requirements and challenges into system requirements through direct customer engagement
• Practical experience in system design or subsystem/feature component design, including API and data integrations
• Experience driving design and development in collaboration with backend or infrastructure engineers
• Strong Japanese proficiency for smooth communication with customers, and business-level English to clearly provide requirements to engineers

Nice To Haves

• Foundational knowledge of systems involving robotics, IoT, or hardware
• Practical experience in system design in infrastructure or backend domains
• Practical experience in operations and services in logistics or mobility fields
• Practical experience in the launching process of new products or platforms
• Ability to involve stakeholders, concretize solutions, and drive validation for requirements with high uncertainty

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.