Project Manager (CTO Office), Tokyo

As a Project Manager in the CTO Office, you will lead company-wide, mission-critical projects to success. Your goal will be to enable Money Forward’s engineering organization to deliver value faster, more securely, and on a global scale.

Your primary missions will include:

• Initiating, planning, driving, and embedding cross-functional, company-wide projects led by the CTO Office.
• Aligning expectations, supporting decision-making, and resolving issues among diverse stakeholders across multiple departments and roles.
• Managing projects centered around key strategic themes, such as AI utilization, security enhancement, technical standards, development productivity, and global organization building.
• Facilitating smooth communication in both Japanese and English with domestic and international engineers, management, and business teams.

Who We’re Looking For

• An individual who can drive initiatives forward even in highly uncertain environments by effectively structuring goals and key discussion points.
• An individual who can understand diverse stakeholder perspectives to facilitate consensus-building and support decision-making.
• An individual with a strong interest in the intersection of technology, organization, and business, who is eager to take on impactful, company-wide initiatives.
• An individual who can communicate information clearly and adaptively in both Japanese and English, tailored to the audience.
• An individual who takes personal ownership of project success and proactively takes the initiative to achieve it.
• An individual who demonstrates deep respect for others and thrives in collaboration with members of diverse expertise.

Tools Used

• Business Intelligence / Data Infrastructure: BigQuery, Looker
• Communication: Slack, Miro, Notion, Zoom
• Project Management & Visualization: Jira
• AI Tools: Notion AI, Cursor, Claude Code

Responsibilities

• Planning and Execution Management for Company-Wide AI Initiatives
  • Managing progress, issues, and risks for multi-organizational AI initiatives, including AI utilization platforms, AI agents, AI development tools, and AI usage guidelines.
  • Coordinating with product development teams, platform teams, business units, QA, and security stakeholders.
  • Preparing progress reports, structuring discussion points, and supporting decision-making for the steering committee.
• Driving Projects Related to Security Enhancement and Governance Strengthening
  • Facilitating post-incident recurrence prevention, development process improvements, security reviews, and governance reviews.
  • Collaborating with the CISO Office, development organizations, and legal/compliance teams.
• Driving Technical Standards, Architecture Reviews, and Development Process Improvements
  • Supporting the formulation, review, publication, and operational improvement of company-wide technical standards.
  • Optimizing cross-tool operations involving standardization processes, review requests, and approval tracking.
  • Designing, improving, and embedding processes for architecture and governance reviews.
• Driving Projects Related to Developer Productivity
  • Improving developer portals, consolidating technical information, streamlining knowledge flows for developers, and visualizing tool utilization.
  • Gathering challenges faced by development organizations, aligning with stakeholders on resolution strategies, and translating them into actionable plans.
• Driving Projects for Global Engineering Organization Building
  • Managing projects in collaboration with engineers, managers, and PMs/PdMs across both Japan and overseas branches.
  • Facilitating meetings, creating documentation, and sharing information via chat tools—all in English.
• Developing Project Management Infrastructure
  • Managing milestones, schedules, issues, risks, dependencies, and decision logs.
  • Utilizing internal collaboration, document management, and development tools to organize information and ensure high progress transparency.
• Summarizing complex situations and communicating them at the appropriate level of granularity for executives, management, and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Experience leading projects involving multiple departments and diverse roles.
• Experience defining project objectives, scopes, milestones, issues, and risks, and driving initiatives forward while engaging stakeholders.
• Experience communicating with diverse stakeholders, including executives, department heads, engineers, designers, and business teams.
• Ability to structure discussion points for ambiguous topics, clarifying next steps and decisions to be made.
• Strong business communication skills in Japanese.
• Business communication skills in English, at a level sufficient to conduct meetings, chat communications, and documentation with engineers and managers at overseas branches.
• Experience organizing information and sharing progress using collaboration tools.
• Ability to prioritize and drive multiple projects forward in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.
• Japanese: Business level or above. Ability to conduct precise business discussions and coordination in Japanese.
• English: Business level or above. Ability to conduct meetings, chat communications, and documentation in English with engineers, overseas members, and English-speaking managers.

Nice to haves

While not specifically required, tell us if you have any of the following.

• Experience driving projects related to AI utilization, Generative AI, AI agents, or AI development tools.
• Experience driving projects related to security, governance, risk management, or compliance.
• Hands-on experience with technical standards, development processes, architecture reviews, or improving developer productivity.
• Project management experience within global or multinational teams.
• Professional experience within engineering organizations, product development teams, or SaaS companies.
• Experience designing, scaling, and embedding organizational processes and operational workflows across multiple departments.
• Experience in operational and information design by integrating collaboration tools, document management tools, and development-related applications.
• Experience in software development, engineering management, or product management.
• Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.
  • Money Forward recently announced our AI Strategy roadmap which focuses on improving AI-driven operational efficiencies, as well as integrating AI agents into our products to deliver better value to our users.

Note: Hands-on development experience is not required. Rather than the ability to implement technical details yourself, we place a higher priority on the ability to understand technical discussion points, converse effectively with relevant stakeholders, and drive projects forward.

Compensation

¥6,900,000 ~ ¥11,004,000 annually.