IT Production, Automotive, Engineering, Project/Product Management

Department: HOT JPN
Salary: -

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RECRUITER SUMMARY

HOT JPN IT Senior, IT Production Automotive Engineering Project/Product Management, Negotiable

08/07/2025

Candidate Background

Nationality:
Turkish, Working Visa
Residence:
Tokyo, Japan
Education:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Industrial Engineering | Master’s degree, Industrial Engineering | Bachelor’s Degree, Mathematics XXXX
Languages:
English – Fluent Turkish – Native German – Fluent
Experience:
20+ years of experience in the industry Current & Previous Employers and jobs include: Director/Head of IT at XXXX Lecturer at XXXX CIO at XXXX Head of MPC at XXXX
Motives:
Is not actively looking for a job right now but is open to see what the market in Japan is at the moment. Open to consider the Regional Engineering Director role.
Current Salary:
–
Expected Salary:
–
Notice Period:
1 Month
Interview Availability:
Requires a day notice

Interview Assessment Notes

1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
She is currently working with XXXX in Japan as the Head of the department responsible for IT production, engineering, quality, and cybersecurity. She is involved with production and engineering domains such as changing all the systems and platforms for engineering, automotive systems and platforms, migration of legacy systems, digitalization, and such. As of the moment, she has 5 teams and 5 managers reporting to her directly; handles about 40 internals and some more with external teams. Before this, she was with XXXX as a CIO where she was responsible mainly for all areas and cross-functional processes including strategizing, planning, building, and running the entire IT function.

2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be her strong technical background since she came from an engineering background for her Master’s and PhD. She is always keen to work within engineering, system development, and such. Apart from that, she has strong leadership skills and can build teams from scratch, bring new opportunities and projects to the team, and interact with stakeholders as well within IT and tech. She’s good with project delivery, transforming, and innovating topics as well.

3. Do you have the lists of key criteria’s according to the clients’ requirements?
She has more than 10 years of leadership experience within engineering and product teams, mainly within the automotive space. Coming from an engineering background, she has deep interest and passion for software and systems since those are the projects she has worked on for the past few years. Aside from that, she has the project management skillset and leadership across local and international teams as well.

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