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プロジェクトマネージャー/ Project Manager

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A growing technology company is looking for a Project Manager (Professional Services / Accounting AI Implementation). The selected candidate will manage implementation projects end-to-end, drive accounting business process transformation, coordinate stakeholders, and support customer adoption and revenue expansion.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead product implementation projects from onboarding through stable production operation
  • Conduct stakeholder interviews to understand customer accounting processes and analyse current operations and business challenges
  • Manage end-to-end project delivery including requirements definition, business process design, UAT, production deployment, and go-live support
  • Lead business process improvement consulting engagements and custom AI implementation projects
  • Build alignment among enterprise customer stakeholders and coordinate with partner companies, internal development teams, and Sales teams
  • Manage escalations and develop solutions to address implementation issues
  • Support customer adoption and operational stabilisation after implementation
  • Recommend process improvements and optimisation opportunities and drive upselling and cross-selling
  • Provide customer feedback to product teams to influence product evolution
  • Contribute to implementation quality improvement and the design and standardisation of Professional Services offerings
  • Collaborate with development teams on product development, PMF strategies, pre-sales consulting, and customer advisory engagements

Requirements:

  • Experience managing client-facing system implementation or system integration projects
  • Strong communication skills including customer interviews, requirement gathering, internal stakeholder coordination, status reporting, and stakeholder alignment
  • Strong problem-solving ability to identify technical and operational challenges and propose and execute effective solutions

Preferred requirements:

  • Experience deploying enterprise-scale systems such as ERP platforms or large SaaS implementations
  • Project management certification such as PMP
  • Knowledge of or certification related to Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning
  • Familiarity with RPA, accounting software, ERP systems, or Business Intelligence tools
  • Business level English and other languages

About the Company:

This technology company researches Large Language Models and AI agents and develops proprietary AI products for accounting and finance. The company supports accounting DX across more than 165 of Japan's leading enterprises.

Keywords:

プロジェクトマネージャー, プロジェクト管理, システム導入, システムインテグレーション, 業務改善, 求人, 外資系

Job Ref: 1RCUYF

Contract Type: Perm

Specialism: Information Technology

Focus: Project Management

Industry: IT

Salary: ¥7,000,000 - ¥12,000,000 per annum

Workplace Type: On-site

Experience Level: Mid Management

Language: English - Business level

Location: Tokyo

Job Reference: 1RCUYF-A3957E75

Date posted: 28 August 2026

Consultant: Daniel Lorenzo