YASO

About the Company

YASO is a next generation solution for ambitious brands looking to sell directly to Chinese Gen Z consumers through the power of social commerce. Our tech-enabled solution provides market entry and brand acceleration options for emerging category-leaders who otherwise would find the complexity of China prohibitively challenging. Find out if China is right for your brand - visit www.goyaso.com

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Company Name

YASO

Job Title

Product Manager / Chinese Speaking / London

Job Description

**Job Title** Product Manager – Chinese Speaking (UK) **Role Summary** Lead the product lifecycle for the UK squad in a B2B SaaS cross‑border commerce platform. Own customer discovery, roadmap planning, prototyping, and delivery of China‑ecommerce tooling that can operate as a standalone product or integrate with the full platform. Work closely with European and Shanghai engineering teams, enterprise sales, and design to ship features that drive measurable adoption and revenue. **Expectations** - 5–7 years as a Product Manager in B2B SaaS companies. - Minimum of 2 years at a seed or Series A startup. - Proven track record of shipping 2+ end‑to‑end products that delivered measurable business outcomes. - Significant experience living or working in China, with deep knowledge of the Chinese e‑commerce ecosystem. - Native or near‑native fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese. - Ability to operate in a fast‑moving, ambiguous startup environment and collaborate across time zones. **Key Responsibilities** 1. Own end‑to‑end product delivery: customer discovery, requirements gathering, prototyping, roadmap, and launch. 2. Shape the broader product roadmap to align with strategic and business goals. 3. Validate features through rapid prototyping, user interviews, and quantitative data; iterate quickly. 4. Participate in sales calls with enterprise prospects to capture pain points, validate willingness to pay, and collect feedback. 5. Translate customer needs into technical specifications and collaborate with engineering on feasibility and pricing. 6. Define and own the end‑user experience; work with design to ensure intuitive, polished releases. 7. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, stand‑ups, and backlog management. 8. Collaborate daily with London leadership, regularly with Shanghai teams, and conduct weekly customer calls across the UK and China. **Required Skills** - Product ownership in B2B SaaS, especially cross‑border e‑commerce. - Startup mindset: bias for action, willingness to ship fast, and comfort with ambiguity. - Customer‑obsessed: strong customer discovery, validation, and data‑driven decision‑making. - Technical intuition: understanding of backend concepts, ability to evaluate engineering trade‑offs. - Design sense and proficiency with component libraries (e.g., Radix, shadcn). - Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Mandarin; ability to translate technical concepts for non‑technical stakeholders. - Insight into enterprise SaaS buying processes, pricing models, and the Chinese retail landscape. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (preferred). - No specific certifications required.

London, United kingdom

Hybrid

Mid level

27-11-2025

Company Name

YASO

Job Title

Senior Full Stack Engineer / London

Job Description

**Job Title** Senior Full Stack Engineer **Role Summary** Design, develop, and ship end‑to‑end features for a B2B SaaS platform that powers cross‑border e‑commerce operations. Own the full stack—from database schema to customer‑facing UI—and deliver production-ready, scalable, and secure APIs. Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams across time zones, contribute to system reliability, and influence technical strategy and roadmap. **Expectations** - Ship a fully operational feature used at least weekly by ops or customers within the first 60 days. - Own code in production: deploy, monitor, debug, and maintain. - Participate in EU‑based on‑call rotation for reliability. - Deliver high‑quality, minimal‑review code and lead mentoring and code‑review culture. **Key Responsibilities** 1. Build complete features from database modeling to UI, solving operational bottlenecks. 2. Design and implement secure, scalable APIs for internal tools and customer features. 3. Translate product requirements into technical specifications, assess feasibility, and flag architectural issues early. 4. Deploy, monitor, and troubleshoot production systems; manage CI/CD pipelines and Docker environments. 5. Collaborate asynchronously with Shanghai engineering, maintain shared data infrastructure, and codebase consistency. 6. Conduct on‑call duties and ensure system reliability. 7. Provide technical input on product roadmap and strategy. 8. Review and mentor junior engineers through code reviews and pairing sessions. **Required Skills** - 5–8 years full‑stack engineering experience, 2+ years at early‑stage startups. - Expert in TypeScript/JavaScript, modern frameworks (Next.js, React or equivalent). - Strong relational database expertise (Postgres, MySQL); design schemas, optimize queries, debug performance. - DevOps foundation: CI/CD, Docker, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar); comfortable troubleshooting production issues. - Proven track record leading 2+ end‑to‑end feature deliveries from zero to production, including architecture decisions. - Product‑oriented: collaborate with PMs, shape requirements, push back when necessary, propose solutions from ambiguous problems. - Ability to make architectural trade‑offs, mentor peers, and work independently in a startup environment. - Fluent English speaker; ability to use LLM assistants efficiently. - Bonus: B2B SaaS product experience, LLM APIs (OpenAI/Anthropic), vector databases, Mandarin Chinese language skills. **Required Education & Certifications** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience). No specific certifications required.

London, United kingdom

Hybrid

Senior

27-11-2025