2013
The honest starting point
Started as a small e-commerce team, not a factory. Everyone here still learns the trade from the ground up.
CAREERS & WORK CULTURE
Careers at Takara: Crafting the Future of Physical Products.
Takara is a creative-manufacturing partner in Ho Chi Minh City: a small, high-agency team that takes licensed merchandise, corporate gifts, and art toys from first sketch to finished, shelf-ready products. We hire for potential and teach the trade to the right people.
Why Takara
A small team, and what it has done
Takara started in 2013 as a small e-commerce team, and spent the years since earning trust with the strictest licensors in the world. For the people who work here, that history shows in the work: every project is checked against a standard that does not bend, and the team that meets it stays small.
2016
Earning a strict licensor
Pokémon trusted a small Vietnamese team with its name. That kind of trust sets the bar for precision here.
2020
Proving the range
Won ThreeSixty Group's Vietnam sourcing business over a competitive field. It takes range to earn work like that.
2025
Learning what a deadline is
Rohto's blind-box launch shipped a month early. On a small team, everyone has a hand in a deadline like that.
All of that happened with a team small enough that everyone felt it. The work lands on shelves, and it takes the whole team to get it there.
Culture
How the team works
Takara works with a few simple habits:
Bad news travels the same day
If a date slips or a sample fails, the client hears about it that day, not at the next meeting. Catching it early makes the fix smaller, for everyone.
Quality has a name on it
The QC lead signs every lot report by name. People check more carefully when their name is on a report, and that care is part of what 3-stage QC is built on. New members get used to it from their first order.
Every order teaches the next one
After each purchase order, the team reviews the defect rate and updates the inspection checklist for the following run. It is simply part of the routine.
Small team, visible work
On a team this size, good work is easy to see. When someone finds the right factory or saves a timeline, everyone notices, because the whole team reads the same schedule.
Benefits
Benefits
Employment terms follow Vietnamese labour law:
Social insurance
Full coverage, as required by Vietnamese law.
Annual leave
Time off per the Labour Code.
Competitive pay
Based on skill and results.
Open roles
Open roles
See what's currently open below.
Junior Sourcing
Ho Chi Minh City · Full-time
A first job in licensed merchandise: how products get made, checked, and shipped on time. We teach you the trade. You bring care, English, and the will to learn.
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