Regulation & Certification Assistant Manager

Woven by Toyota is enabling Toyota’s once-in-a-century transformation into a mobility company. Inspired by a legacy of innovating for the benefit of others, our mission is to challenge the current state of mobility through human-centric innovation — expanding what “mobility” means and how it serves society.

Our work centers on four pillars: AD/ADAS, our autonomous driving and advanced driver assist technologies; Arene, our software development platform for software-defined vehicles; Woven City, a test course for mobility; and Cloud & AI, the digital infrastructure powering our collaborative foundation. Business-critical functions empower these teams to execute, and together, we’re working toward one bold goal: a world with zero accidents and enhanced well-being for all.

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Toyota is redefining what it means to move. We're challenging the current state of mobility by enhancing the movement of people, goods, information and energy. Centered around three core concepts - A Living Laboratory™, Human-Centered, and Ever Evolving City™ - Woven City serves as a test course for mobility to fulfill our purpose of well-being for all.

We do this by bringing together a diverse community of people with a shared passion for the future of mobility to co-create, develop and refine innovative products and services. This cross-section of social infrastructure, mobility, and people provides a unique opportunity for inventors, residents and visitors to interact seamlessly with new technologies throughout daily life in an environment that emulates a real city.

The Engineering Hub Function leads technical cross-functional activities from the entire "Woven City" perspective. It creates policies and supports service development from quality management.

Our team, as one of the sub-Function of Engineering Hub, supports internal developers in terms of legal and regulatory compliance and acquiring certificates from governments. We make policies and guidelines for this process, advise developers, and work together with designers and operators for better products with accountability to stakeholders.

We are seeking talented people to join us as we take on new challenges to create new products and services for the Toyota Woven City.

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

We are looking for an experienced specialist in the field of regulations and certifications to be the responsible person for our compliance and internal assessment of novel services for use in the city, for which a lot of regulatory requirements (incl. local regulations of prefectures and cities), standards and relevant guidelines could be applicable. You will define policies and processes to investigate those requirements to be applicable, to guide our engineering teams to satisfy them, to review their compliance of hardware and software development and operational matters, to support acquiring certificates from governments, to report status to Leadership (such as executive members of the company), and to identify and implement process improvements (note that we are not in the legal department, although we work with the them and external attorneys as necessary). You will establish yourself as a specialist and help to solve ambiguous and complex questions. As we are planning and developing a wide range of business areas under the banner of 'Expanding Mobility', you can expect to gain knowledge and experience in a wide variety of laws and regulations and certifications (mechanical, electrical and electronic, data, financial, public health, etc.) and to have opportunities to think about what will be the reasonable regulations in the development of new businesses.

Your contributions will span the entire product design lifecycle, from conception to design, production and maintenance. You will direct compliance testing, risk assessment, and certification activities for the launch of Woven City in Japan.

This position will report to the sub-lead of Regulation & Certification, Engineering Hub.

・Investigate applicable regulations and standards (incl. coming updates and/or modifications of requirements) for our products, in collaboration with our legal department and external attorneys or relevant specialists as necessary.

・Support our engineering teams to develop products to meet applicable requirements (Conducting compliance reviews, confirming interpretations with administrative agencies, and promoting training and communication initiatives to foster compliance awareness )

・Discuss applicability of regulations, interpretations of regulatory languages, necessary documents to be prepared for certifications, etc. with national ministries and agencies, local governments, inspection bodies.

・Developing terms of use for each product and service in alignment with company-wide policies and promoting their proper documentation management.

・Manage and engage team staffs to be responsible and accountable for our activities as the Toyota group entity, and lead the organization and the company.

・5+ years of work experience (or equivalent skills) with regulatory compliance and certifications of product development (regardless of its field: hardware, software, business scheme, operational things, etc.), such as:

　　　・Rulemaking and external affairs for product safety, environmental standards, or obligations of businesses with other companies in the industry and related ministries.

　　　・Making reasonable interpretations for ambiguous regulatory languages and discussions with authorities.

　　　・Developing management systems for product engineering to meet regulatory requirements and documenting evidence of their compliance in a timely manner.

　　　・Raising awareness on the importance of compliance for employees.

　　　・Preparing documents for applying regulatory certificates to be submitted to governments and inspection bodies.

・Attitude to make efforts to understand Toyota's culture and its background history.

・Attitude to humbly learn unfamiliar things (e.g., no experience on a certain law) necessary to accomplish our accountability.

・Flexibility and tenacity to deal with diverse decision-making mechanisms and logic.

・The Flexibility to adapt to rapidly changing environments while readily embracing new technologies and tools.

・At least business level English skill (Speaking/Reading/Writing) and native level in Japanese, at least ability to understand and explain Japanese laws.

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・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.

・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)

・We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity.

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