Tohru Onoe

Why I Joined

In my previous role, I experienced what it takes to build and scale an engineering organization inside a non-tech company, including hiring, development, and organizational design. Through that experience, I developed a desire to take on the challenge of building an organization that was even more closely tied to business growth. CADDi has achieved extraordinary business growth at a pace that far exceeds typical SaaS benchmarks, and both the business and the organization are expanding rapidly. I was strongly attracted to the chance to tackle challenges of a scale and difficulty I had never experienced before. I was also deeply impressed by the people I met through interviews and conversations at CADDi. They were all sincere, straightforward, and genuinely committed to the mission of unleashing the potential of manufacturing. I felt the entire organization was united by a high level of aspiration and thought, 'With teammates like these, we can overcome any challenge.' Manufacturing is also a massive industry on a global scale, comparable in size to Japan's GDP. I had long wanted to help build a product from Japan that could win globally, and CADDi felt like exactly that opportunity. Seeing the product already gaining traction in the U.S. made the global potential feel very real, and that was a major reason I chose to join.