Tomoya Yamada

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Director of Product at Woolworths Group | ex-Stripe

Woolworths Group
Tokyo, Japan · JST (UTC+9)
9+ years experience
Vietnam National University
English, Japanese
Co-founder
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Overview

17 years in product management, the last 1 at Woolworths Group, where I lead the lending team. Killed 8 features nobody used and shipped the 4 that customers asked for. Took lending activation from 34% to 49% in three quarters. I host a monthly meetup on lending.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Second opinions on product strategy decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about lending
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Courses and coaching offers

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
product strategyunderwritingcreditcompliance
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cross-border payouts for university students

The idea
Looking for an ML-focused co-founder for cross-border payouts for university students
Stage
Prototype
I bring
13 years in lending
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Tokyo or remote

I bring 17 years of lending (currently Woolworths Group). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Incorporated, self-funded so far.

Tokyo, Japan · remote OKunderwritingcreditcompliance
Open

Experience

  1. Director of Product
    Mar 2026 - Present
    Woolworths Group · 7 mo · Contract · Tokyo, Japan
    • Ran 178 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 11 days to 3.
  2. Principal Product Manager
    Nov 2023 - Mar 2026
    Stripe · 2 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  3. Product Manager
    Jul 2020 - Nov 2023
    PropertyGuru · 3 yr 4 mo · Contract · Tokyo, Japan
    • Killed 6 features nobody used and shipped the 2 that customers asked for.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
    KPMG · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  5. Group Product Manager
    Nov 2017 - Mar 2019
    ANZ · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Tokyo, Japan
    • Ran 86 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Took lending activation from 22% to 40% in three quarters.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from lending
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling lending.

Side project: a recipe search engine
2022

Built with compliance and product strategy. 3511 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. Vietnam National University
    BSc, Design
    2004 - 2008

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