Vetted Global Engineers for Japanese Technology Companies

Ichizoku matches you with global engineers and provides you with onboarding and management support. Need a playbook to onboard and manage global engieers? We got that too!

"Ichizoku introduced global engineers ramp up and contribute faster to your Japan team"

High Quality/Cost Ratio

1. Onboard deeply vetted developers from South Asia

We provide the onboarding and management playbook to overcome language and culture issues, team integration issues, goal setting challenges, and performance evaluation challenges.


2. 100+ Skills Available

Quickly onboard React, Node, Python, Angular, Swift, ReactNative, Android, Data Engineers and more


3. Backoffice Support for Global Engineers

Local contracts, flexible contracts, and tax, compliance, and legal support

How It Works

Our system handles the recuriting, communication, onboarding, and management challenges with global teams.

Global talent pools

  • Prescreened top 5%
  • Diverse engineering disciplines
  • Ready to work for you

Hands on, onboarding support

Interview and select your global teammates

Ongoing, hands on performance management support

Global Engineer Onboarding
and Management Playbook

Submit skill set needs

Review pre-screened candidates

Problems Facing Japan Technology Companies

  • Limited global team management experience
  • Limited conversational, technical english
  • No system to successfully onboard and manage global engineers

Benefits

  • Global Hiring Competitive Advantage
  • Quickly onboard global engineers
  • Skill up team with global managment skills

Ichizoku introduced engineers onboard and ramp up faster

Do it yourself recruiting, onboarding, and management

With Ichizoku's support

Faster Ramp Time Benefits

  • More software code shipped
  • Faster contributions by global teammates
  • Improve retention rate of global engineer

How It Works

Our system handles the recuriting, communication, onboarding, and management challenges with global teams.

Global talent pools

  • Prescreened top 5%
  • Diverse engineering disciplines
  • Ready to work for you

Global Engineer Onboarding
and Management Playbook

Global Engineer
Onboarding and
Management Playbook

  1. Submit skill set needs
  2. Review pre-screened candidates
  3. Interview and select your global teammates
  4. Hands on, onboarding support
  5. Ongoing, hands on performance management support

Problems Facing Japan Technology Companies

  • Limited global team management experience
  • Limited conversational, technical english
  • No system to successfully onboard and manage global engineers

Benefits

  • Global Hiring Competitive Advantage
  • Quickly onboard global engineers
  • Skill up team with global managment skills

Ichizoku introduced engineers onboard and ramp up faster

Do it yourself recruiting, onboarding, and management

With Ichizoku's support

Faster Ramp Time Benefits

  • More software code shipped
  • Faster contributions by global teammates
  • Improve retention rate of global engineer

How to Hire and Manage Global Engineers

About Us

Ichizoku is a technology and services provider that builds high performing engineering teams with Japanese technology companies. We offer both software and offshore engineering services that increase a software developers daily productivity. We also enable Japanese engineering managers to access global talent pools to source hard to find skill sets. For executives, we offer an AI training course that will help Japanese technology companies adopt AI technology more quickly. Ichizoku is founded by technology and software veterans that are passionate about building high performing teams that are necessary to solve the hard problems of the future.

Our Team

Jay Revels
CEO and Founder

Working at Adobe Japan and Marin Software Japan, Jay has a 19 year technology career with 10+ years of executive leadership in Japan building high performing revenue teams. Jay co-founded Ichizoku to help Japanese technology companies build high performing engineering teams with global talent capability. He is passionate about helping Japan technology companies build teams that use new technologies and global talent to provide competitive advantage and accelerate market share growth. Jay also led the integration of AI technology to support Japan customers of Ichizoku's partner, Sentry. Ichizoku is one of the first companies in Japan to deploy AI technology to support the Japanese customers of Global Software vendors.

Mani Agrawal
COO and Co Founder

Mani has a distinguished academic background where he earned a Ph.D. in operations research from North Carolina State University, a M.S. in Engineering from Vanderbilt University, and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology. Mani first began his research of Neural Networks during his doctorial studies at North Carolina State University. He founded and headed the business consulting practice of Cognizant in Europe, was Chief Scientist at Manugistics (now Blue Yonder) in USA, and was an expert consultant with McKinsey in the Chicago office. Mani supported global customers that were struggling with operational efficiency and supply chain bottlenecks. Mani led the the worldwide turn around of a business unit of a Fortune 10 company in the energy sector. In addition, Mani designed a supply chain system for a leading Japan automotive manufacture, enabling three week order-to-delivery for custom vehicles. Mani has lectured at leading global universities in the USA, China, and Europe on topics such as optimizing large scale systems. Today, Mani is passionate about creating algorithms to solve real world challenges for global industries.

Akito Sato
CMO

Akito has successfully led the GTM strategy and revenue growth for many foreign technology companies in Japan. Akito is proficient at building high performing teams and as the Japan country manager of Turn, acquired by Singtel group, guided the business to profitability in 3 years. Before joining Turn, Akito led the sales effort for DoubleClick at Google.

Uniquely Positioned to Assist Japan Technology Companies in Sourcing and Managing Global Software Engineering Teams

Our Suppliers

Why Ichizoku for Global IT/ Engineering Talent?

Global talent providers, networks and agencies use Ichizoku to:

How do we engage with our Global IT/Engineering Talent suppliers?

Ichizoku acquires Japanese customers and:

Uniquely positioned to assist digital Japan with global software solutions designed for developers to increase their daily productivity.

Out Software Partners

Ichizoku partners with best of breed global software solutions that increase the productivity of Japanese engineering teams. Our solutions increase the output of development and IT teams by helping them work faster and smarter. Our local Japan team helps you find the right solution and accelerates the time to value of your investment.