Product Operations Manager

Our Mission:
Driving technology always feels old. Not by a little bit. We believe vehicles can be a thousand times smarter, safer, and more connected to the world around us, and our mission is to see it happen. In 2019, we joined forces with Honda as their first startup acquisition, and now we’re expanding our vision into building the future of connected vehicles for millions of people around the world.

Why Drivemode: 
Join Drivemode for an exciting startup environment and a vibrant culture that combines impactful work, competitive compensation, and excellent benefits. By becoming a part of our team, you'll contribute to a crucial mission that revolutionizes the way people engage with vehicles, addressing both business needs and the world's environmental challenges. This presents an exceptional opportunity to be at the forefront of innovation and drive Honda's success in the automotive market.

**About the role:
**We're seeking a highly organized, customer-obsessed Product Operations Manager for our 4W Product Group in Tokyo, Japan. This pivotal role ensures exceptional customer experience and operational efficiency for our connected vehicle products. You will serve as the operational bridge connecting Engineering, Product, Design, Executive Leadership, and global stakeholders.

You will oversee support queue health, manage L2/L3 triage and incident response workflows, optimize support processes, localization strategy, drive Voice of Customer insights and operational improvements across the product lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to directly impact customer satisfaction and drive scalable growth at Drivemode.

What You'll Do

• Customer Support Enablement: Contribute building the Customer Support Operations, collaborating with engineers, providing product information, enabling effective troubleshooting, and streamlining escalations.

• L2/L3 Support Triage & Queue Management: Perform daily monitoring and initial triage of Jira support queues (8:00 AM–5:00 PM weekdays JST) across mobile apps and backend systems. Classify severity, troubleshoot reproducible issues, verify context, and route to appropriate teams.

• Escalation management & Operational Health: Oversee incident response workflows, unblock critical issues, and track key operational performance metrics. Track ticket resolution against defined SLOs. Intervene on stalled issues, manage Severity 1 incident escalations to on-call engineers via Slack/Jira, oversee daily/weekly transition handovers, and report operational performance to executive and external stakeholders weekly/monthly.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a critical liaison between core development teams, executive management and regional global offices.