Product Manager
Japan
- Past
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- Head of Product at Gotcha! Media KK
- Director, Vox Product Marketing at Six Apart
- Product Manager at Yahoo! JAPAN
- Program Manager at Amazon.com
- Project Manager at SDL International
- Project manager at Japan Communications Inc.
- Education
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- Shanghai International Studies University
- Nanjing University
- Earlham College
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Daisuke Horie’s Summary
Product and project management in the Internet Industry
Daisuke Horie’s Specialties:
Product management
Program management
Project management
Bilingual (English and Japanese),
Daisuke Horie’s Experience
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Head of Product
Gotcha! Media KK
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — April 2008 (6 months)
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Director, Vox Product Marketing
Six Apart
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
March 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 4 months)
• Proposed and managed the launch of Vox blogging service in Japan.
• Designed Vox mobile phone product and managed the product launch process.
• Managed 5 person Vox product development and operations team -
Product Manager
Yahoo! JAPAN
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
March 2005 — January 2006 (11 months)
• Responsible for new feature and service proposals, budgets, scheduling, recruiting, operations and marketing of live services
• Managed the design and launch of Yahoo! JAPAN Mobile Web Search
• Proposed and managed the launch of the Yahoo! JAPAN Development Network. Evangelized the project both within and outside the company to attract developers and to introduce a wide range of API’s to the Yahoo! JAPAN Development Network
• Developed and managed the `MyWeb` search personalization project -
Program Manager
Amazon.com
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
June 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for project development and deployment including project scoping, coordination, scheduling, and final delivery of internal tools and online website features. Responsibilities also included site maintenance and upkeep. Led site development and management for the Amazon.co.jp mobile platform.
• Managed the launch of several major features and tools within the JP site, including launching Amazon.co.jp on the Vodafone Live! Platform, expansion of payment options for Amazon.co.jp associates and the creation of the computer store.
• Managed development and maintenance of the Amazon.co.jp mobile platforms for i-mode, EZweb and Vodafone. Role included spec and request creation, managing business side expectations, information gathering and negotiations with carriers. -
Project Manager
SDL International
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; SDL; Translation and Localization industry)
April 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 2 months)
Localization project manager with responsibilities for projects from planning to delivery, within tight deadlines and client budgets. Also responsible for building relationships with clients such as Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Siebel
• Managed the initiation and completion of multiple concurrent projects and jobs for major clients with total worth of several million dollars
• Worked with overseas offices around the world to complete client projects of multilingual localization
• Acted as liaison in developing relationships with clients
• Responsible for scoping client needs and creating and submitting quotes for projects -
Project manager
Japan Communications Inc.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)
November 1999 — January 2001 (1 year 3 months)
Project Manager
Consumer Development Group May 2000 – Jan. 2001
Designed and developed entertainment content for mobile phones including a mobile fantasy baseball game.
• Created initial proposal for company funding and secured 3,000,000 Yen budget
• Coordinated with multi-national teams of developers to complete product
• Secured legal authorization from the baseball commissioner and acquired statistical data necessary for product development and marketing
Associate
Marketing Department Nov. 1999 – May 2000
Developed and managed engine for calculating the most profitable procurement plans for CDMA cell phone lines.
• Analyzed customer call patterns, multiple carrier rate plans and built cost analysis engine
• Maximized JCI’s profits based on the cost difference between JCI content-enhanced rate plans and carrier rate plans, generated 20-25% savings per line for over 50,000,000 Yen of savings in first 6 months
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