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Explore hand-picked jobs in Japan for English speakers across tech, education, marketing, and more.
Vetted companies only. Apply from overseas.
Woven by ToyotaWoven City – Social Infrastructures & Platforms is looking for a passionate and experienced Project Manager to lead service operations and improvement using our products across digital and physical touchpoints. This position may require you to change your work location from Tokyo to Susono depending on the phase of service development. You will be frequently visiting the site at least on a business trip basis. If you want to tackle our new challenges of developing innovative services as a mixture of hardware and software, let’s make history together. Responsibilities include improving the products and operations of multiple services at Woven City using a robotic automated delivery platform, clarifying product requirements to improve the services provided, working with the international technical development team to implement improved products into on-site operations, communicating and collaborating with internal and group company stakeholders involved in Woven City's operations, and managing and training on-site operators.
- 5+ years of practical experience in the design, launch, maintenance, and improvement of hardware-related service operations - Ability to formulate hypotheses based on qualitative information such as on-site observations and user feedback, and quantitative information such as metrics, and document product requirements for operational improvements in a format that engineers can understand - Technical knowledge and communication skills to clearly communicate problems and requirements for improvements to get engineers with diverse backgrounds to take action - Ability to balance, plan, and coordinate between development and operations, taking into account the situations and requests of both teams, and to advance service improvements according to a schedule - Business-level English and Japanese proficiency
- Hands-on experience to train and manage on-site operators for service operations - Hands-on experience improving the manufacturing process in factories through work observation - Experience in developing and operating services or products that utilize robots - Experience in developing and operating products using ROS - Domain knowledge in logistics or apartment management fields
- Competitive Salary - Based on experience - Work Hours - Flexible working time - Paid Holiday - 20 days per year (prorated) - Sick Leave - 6 days per year (prorated) - Holiday - Sat & Sun, Japanese National Holidays, and other days defined by our company - Japanese Social Insurance - Health Insurance, Pension, Workers’ Comp, and Unemployment Insurance, Long-term care insurance - Housing Allowance - Retirement Benefits - Rental Cars Support - In-house Training Program (software study/language study)
