Manager - Product Design (UX/UI), Tokyo - Japan at Glance

Glance AI is an AI commerce platform shaping the next wave of e-commerce with inspiration-led shopping, less about searching for what you want and more about discovering who you could be. Operating in 140 countries, Glance AI transforms every screen into a stage for instant, personal, and joyful discovery, where inspiration becomes something you can explore, feel, and shop in the moment.

Its proprietary models, seamlessly integrated with Google’s most advanced AI platforms, Gemini and Imagen on Vertex AI, deliver hyper-realistic, deeply personal shopping experiences across categories such as fashion, beauty, travel, accessories, home décor, pets, and more. Designed to seamlessly integrate into everyday consumer technology, Glance AI reimagines the future of e-commerce with inspiration-led discovery and shopping.

With an open architecture built for effortless adoption across hardware and software ecosystems, Glance AI is creating a platform that can become a staple in everyday consumer technology. It partners with the world’s leading smartphone makers, connected TV manufacturers, telecom providers, and global brands — meeting people where they are: on mobile, smart TVs, and brand websites.

Through Glance AI’s rich first-party data and unparalleled consumer access, it harnesses InMobi’s global scale, insights, and targeting capabilities to create high-impact, performance-driven shopping journeys for brands worldwide. Part of the InMobi Group, a global technology and advertising leader reaching over 2 billion devices and serving more than 30,000 enterprise brands worldwide, Glance AI is backed by Google, Jio Platforms, and Mithril Capital.

What will you be doing? 

• Own end-to-end design for key journeys across Glance's surfaces — from research and flows through wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI
• Turn complex, AI-driven commerce experiences into intuitive, visually compelling designs that resonate with Japanese users
• Partner with product and engineering to shape the roadmap from a design perspective and ship high-quality work
• Use user research, testing, and data to validate decisions and continuously improve the experience
• Contribute to and apply Glance's design system, maintaining consistency and quality across the product

Key Requirements: 

• Around 4–7 years in product design, UX/UI, or interaction design, with a strong portfolio of shipped consumer products
• Proven ability to own design end to end — from problem framing and user flows to final UI
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma) and familiarity with design systems
• Strong grasp of mobile-first and responsive design, with the ability to balance user needs and business goals
• Business-level Japanese and English 

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience designing for mobile consumer apps at scale, ideally with a commerce or content component
• Familiarity with user research methods and working alongside dedicated researchers
• Exposure to CTV / large-screen design, or AI-driven product experiences

Why Glance AI

• Ownership. You will not be confined to one category or one type of partner. You operate where you can also build a portfolio that is genuinely yours.
• Structural backing without big-company friction. Glance is part of InMobi Group with proven scale (Glance reaches 400M+ monthly users globally) and infrastructure already built, but JP operates as a startup with founding-team on strategy and deals. Backed by strong global investors including SoftBank and Google, with SoftBank as anchor partner in Japan
• A first-team seat in Japan. The JP strategy is being written now. The partner playbook and deal architecture that will be replicated across other markets such as Korea, Germany, UK, Australia  in the future.
• Real category creation, not incremental work. Work on genuinely new, AI-first agentic commerce — built from the ground up, not an improvement on today's shopping
• Culture. Work with smart, humble people who value openness, trust, and honest collaboration
• Competitive salary and benefits: Benchmarked against roles at comparable global tech in Tokyo, meaningful equity grant, annual performance bonus tied to outcomes, plus full health, retirement, and standard Japan-market benefits.

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