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title: 'Technical Product Owner at Tektome'
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# Technical Product Owner at Tektome

- **Company:** Tektome
- **Location:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/tektome-com/am9icG9zdDo8kr1Jn2Vt7VQoyvRdlYUQ

## Job description

## About Us

At Tektome, we're at the forefront of technological innovation for the AEC industry. Our commitment is to drive excellence, push technological boundaries, and transform the AEC as a whole. We are a spin out of one of the first AI companies in Japan, Incubit. We're looking for dedicated professionals who share our passion and ambition. If you're hungry for challenges and eager to be part of a pioneering tech firm, Tektome is where you belong.

## About the role

Tektome's platform is an AI-native workspace for AEC teams: chat, collaborative docs and knowledge, search, AEC data and AI agents in one place, with apps for specific MEP and construction workflows built on top. It's used by some of the largest general contractors and design firms in Japan.

We're looking for a Technical Product Owner who knows AEC from the inside. You'll turn what general contractors need into shaped, buildable bets for our product engineers, own product direction for the core platform and its apps, prototype ideas with AI coding agents, and then build and ship them with the team. You'll report to our Head of Product Engineering.

This is a growth role. It suits an architect or a software engineer from AEC who wants to become a technical product leader. Within your first year, we expect most of the pitches at our betting table to come from you.

## How we work

We work in Forge, our in-house methodology based on Shape Up: fixed cycles with build and cooldown phases, pitches presented at a betting table, and no sprints, story points or backlogs. You shape bets, defend them on evidence, and stay with them until they're in customers' hands.

## What you'll do

- Spend time with customers at their offices and on construction sites to understand how work really happens across models, drawings and markups
- Spot where software should change how AEC teams work, and shape those ideas into pitches with a clear appetite and no-gos
- Prototype ideas quickly with AI coding agents to test them before committing a cycle
- Present pitches at the betting table and make the case on evidence
- Build and ship alongside the product engineers once a bet is picked
- Own product direction for the core platform and its MEP and construction apps
- Explain technical trade-offs clearly to customers and engineers

## What we're looking for

Required

- 4+ years in AEC at a design firm, general contractor or AEC software vendor, with a real understanding of how buildings are designed, coordinated and built
- A background as an architect or software engineer: ideally a licensed or practicing architect with strong computational skills, or a software engineer who has built tools for AEC
- Ambition to lead product: you've already shaped features, led a small initiative or owned a tool others use
- Professional English, with the ability to explain technical trade-offs clearly

## Nice to have

- Hands-on design, cost estimation, BIM coordination or construction management at a large contractor or design firm
- BIM data experience: IFC and ifcopenshell, Revit and the Revit API, Autodesk Platform Services, BCF, XFDF
- AI agents you've built that do real AEC work, such as model checking, drawing review or design automation
- Experience with Shape Up or another appetite-based way of shaping work
- Delivering for enterprise customers with on-premise or strict security requirements
- You build with AI: you prototype with AI coding agents and read and write Python, TypeScript or C# (Revit API, Dynamo or Grasshopper scripting counts)
- Working knowledge of LLM agents: tool use, MCP, context management, evaluation and token costs at scale
- Japanese language skills

## What we offer

- A real path from architect or engineer to technical product leader
- Visa sponsorship
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Real customers: large general contractors and design firms
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment
- Personal growth and learning opportunities

Location: Tokyo (hybrid), with regular visits to customer offices and construction sites.

## About Tektome

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tektome is an AI-native company providing an architectural design platform for the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Founded 2023)
- **Headquarters**: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Naoki Kitamura (CEO) and Francis Hamilton (Founding CTO)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Data Infrastructure and Analytics, Architecture, Engineering & Construction (AEC), Artificial Intelligence
- Target customers: B2B, Enterprise (architectural firms, construction companies, engineering consultancies)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Become the AI Copilot for architectural design by building tools that assist AEC professionals at every step of the process." [tektome.com](https://tektome.com/en/about/)

## Products & Services
- **[Tektome KnowledgeBuilder]**: An AI-powered solution that analyzes and structures past design drawings into a searchable database. Used by major firms like Takenaka Corporation to improve design productivity and promote work style reform. Type: SaaS/AI Platform. [tektome.com](https://tektome.com/en/about/)
- **[平面図解析技術 (Floor Plan Analysis Technology)]**: AI technology that analyzes 2D floor plan drawings and structures them into data. Type: API/SDK [linkedin.com](https://jp.linkedin.com/company/tektome)
- **[Tektome Regulations Research]**: An AI-powered solution designed to help architects and AEC teams navigate complex regulatory requirements before design decisions. Type: SaaS/AI Platform. [linkedin.com](https://jp.linkedin.com/company/tektome)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding not disclosed; Headcount of 27 employees with 85.7% year-over-year growth [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/tektome)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Incubit Inc. (Japan's early AI company, from which Tektome spun out); Takenaka Corporation (major Japanese construction firm, client); Haseko Corporation (client collaboration on AI training program) [linkedin.com](https://jp.linkedin.com/company/tektome)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid headcount growth (+85.7% YoY), expansion to UK (London office established April 2025), high-profile client wins (Takenaka Corporation, Haseko), active hiring (8 open positions as of search date). [linkedin.com](https://jp.linkedin.com/company/tektome)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep AEC Domain Expertise**: Focuses exclusively on the complex AEC industry, combining AI research with real-world architectural and engineering workflows.
- **AI-First Approach**: Built from the ground up as an AI-native company, not a traditional software vendor adding AI features.
- **Strategic Talent**: Team includes AI researchers (CTO holds a Master's in AI), architects, and engineers, allowing for tight integration of technology and domain needs.
- **Early Market Penetration**: Has secured partnerships and clients with major Japanese construction industry leaders (Takenaka, Haseko) within two years of founding.

## Strategic Focus
- **Swarm AI Vision**: Expanding beyond single-agent AI tools to a "Swarm AI" vision for the AEC industry, where multiple AI agents collaborate on complex design tasks.
- **Global Expansion**: Established a London office in 2025 to enter the UK and European markets.
- **Product Line Expansion**: Continuously launching new AI-powered solutions (KnowledgeBuilder, Regulations Research, Floor Plan Analysis) to address different pain points in the AEC workflow.
- **Automating Architectural Workflows**: Core focus on automating repetitive tasks (drawing structuring, code compliance) to free up architects for higher-value design work.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as an "AI-first" company at the "forefront of technological innovation" for the AEC industry. Emphasizes a research-driven culture that values pushing technological boundaries. [tektome.com](https://tektome.com/en/about/)
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hybrid workspace. Employees in Tokyo and London work a combination of remote and on-site. Recent job postings are listed as "Hybrid". [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/tektome)
- **Team & Growth**: A small, rapidly expanding global team (27 people, growing ~85% YoY) across 5 countries. This suggests high impact and ownership for early employees.
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Focus on "research-grade AI innovation," working with cutting-edge technology in a specialized domain. The company is a spin-out of a successful AI firm (Incubit), indicating strong technical roots. Recent openings include Senior Software Engineer, AEC AI Engineer, and Cloud DevOps Engineer. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/tektome/jobs)

## Sources
1. [tektome.com](https://tektome.com/en/about/)
2. [jp.linkedin.com](https://jp.linkedin.com/company/tektome)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/tektome)
4. [tektome.com](https://tektome.com/company/team)

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