Build Global Software Teams for Digital Japan

Scale and Start Managing Your Global Team in Weeks

A simple service enabling Non-English speaking, Japanese developers to source, onboard, and manage global software teams.

"We had to grow faster than the labor constraints of Japan. Ichizoku cracked the code on helping us build a system for hiring and managing global engineers."
Director of Software Engineering

Problem

No system for sourcing, onboarding and managing global engineering teams

  • Not enough software engineers in Japan
  • No internal system to hire and manage Global Engineers
  • Fear of culture fit and language challenges

Ichizoku solution

Prescreened global engineers ready to deploy with a system to manage them

  • Real time translation for interviews, daily progress reporting, code reviews, project updates
  • Dashboard to check progress of team
  • Scoring System to optimize and build strong relationships

Benefits

Development velocity

  • Meet or beat development milestones
  • Confidence in staffing critical engineering and data science positions
  • Quickly ramp up and down engineering capacity and increase capital efficiency

Never fall behind on your staffing and product roadmap deadlines

Time to market is everything

Global Talent-ready System
How It Works

Global talent pools

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

Cutting-edge engineering teams for Japan technology companies... ready to manage and scale

Onboard and manage global talent using the Ichizoku workspace

Use our coding review tool and multi-lingual communication system to select your new teammates

Performance dashboard for managing global engineers

Ichizoku Global Talent
-ready System

Submit your business and technical requirements

Review your curated pool of pre-screened talent

Problems Facing Japan Technology Companies

  • Read a little technical English
  • Lack Conversational English Skills, Intercultural Skills with Non-Japanese co-workers
  • No FTE Engineering managers with multi-lingual conversational skills
  • No system to quickly onboard and manage global engineers

Benefits

  • Accelerate time-to-market
  • Accelerate market share growth
  • Strengthen business resiliency
  • Grow competitive advantage

Business Case

Time to deploy a performing development team

Full Stack, Blockchain, Computational Science, Cyber Readiness,UX

160 days

Traditional - source from local Japan talent pools and agencies

Maintain Status Quo

Forfeit competitive advantage

Ichizoku

Velocity dividends to Japanese
Development Teams

  • Lower opportunity costs
  • Minimized language disruption
  • Improved capital efficiency (more runway)

45 days

“Ichizoku solved the problem of having to find a multilingual CTO or CPO. Their technology eliminated the bulk of our language and cultural issues in working with global software engineers.”
Co-Founder and COO

Global Talent-ready System
How It Works

Global talent pools

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

Ichizoku Global
Talent - ready System

  1. Submit your business and technical requirements
  2. Review your curated pool of pre-screened talent
  3. Use our coding review tool and multi-lingual communication system to select your new teammates
  4. Onboard and manage global talent using the Ichizoku workspace
  5. Performance dashboard for managing global engineers

Problems Facing Japan Technology Companies

  • Read a little technical English
  • Lack Conversational English Skills, Intercultural Skills with Non-Japanese co-workers
  • No FTE Engineering managers with multi-lingual conversational skills
  • No system to quickly onboard and manage global engineers

Benefits

  • Accelerate time-to-market
  • Accelerate market share growth
  • Strengthen business resiliency
  • Grow competitive advantage

Cutting-edge engineering teams for Japan technology companies... ready to manage and scale

Business Case

Time to deploy a performing development team

Full Stack, Blockchain, Computational Science, Cyber Readiness,UX

Traditional - source from local
Japan talent pools and agencies

160 days

Maintain Status Quo

Forfeit competitive advantage

Ichizoku

45 days

Velocity dividends to Japanese
Development Teams

  • Lower opportunity costs
  • Minimized language disruption
  • Improved capital efficiency (more runway)
“Ichizoku solved the problem of having to find a multilingual CTO or CPO. Their technology eliminated the bulk of our language and cultural issues in working with global software engineers.”
Co-Founder and COO

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.