Jason Everaert
Senior Product Manager Japan at Chocolate Finance
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolJason Everaert is a product leader with eight years of experience building payments and fintech products across Japan and the US, currently serving as Senior Product Manager for Chocolate Finance Japan. He has driven settlement, KYC, and customer service tooling at high-growth companies like Paidy, Merpay, and Rakuten Mobile, delivering measurable improvements such as a 15% faster settlement process and significant reductions in customer service handle time. Skilled at aligning compliance, engineering, and finance stakeholders, Jason excels at translating complex regulatory constraints into pragmatic product roadmaps for the Japanese market. His background spans UX design, full-stack training, and frontline customer roles, giving him a rare blend of technical fluency and empathy for end users and operators. Fluent in navigating cross-cultural teams, he repeatedly converts operational pain points into scalable tooling that improves reliability and user experience. Outside product work, his early experience as a tour guide and dive instructor reflects a curiosity-driven, service-oriented approach that informs his collaborative leadership style.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Developer, Coding Bootcamp, Full Stack Developer, Coding Bootcamp at Le WagonInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at Island SchoolBachelor's degree, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES, Undergraduate, Bachelor's degree, LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES, GENERAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES, Undergraduate at Doshisha University
English, Japanese
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Github contributions (5)
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May 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
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