Project Manager (Japanese Native Speaker)

Key responsibilities:

As a Project Manager, you will be in charge of the following:

• Supporting the project team in their direct interactions with clients in Japan from full cycle of the project including gathering project requirements, reporting project progress, go live…
• Ensuring smooth communication between the internal team and Japanese clients, including on spot translating from Japanese to English and vice versa in the meeting.
• Preparing, translating and reviewing project status reports and other documents before sending out
• Being intensively trained on project process, domain, platform to handle questions from stakeholders
• Understand the client’s needs and maintain a good business relationship with them.
• Support sales, pre-sales and marketing activities where Japanese language is used
• Other tasks assigned by Senior Project Manager.

Job requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Native Japanese proficiency
• Professional English proficiency
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role is required
• Extensive experience in customer-facing roles with excellent business understanding is necessary
• Experience in working with offshore teams is essential
• Nice to have:
  - Experience in E-commerce projects, CRM, marketing, and ERP products
  - Knowledge of Agile/Scrum software development lifecycle
  - Experience with project management and communication tools such as MS Teams, Jira, Confluence, etc…
• Personal skills: Good interpersonal skills, ability to handle multiple tasks, attention to detail, proactiveness, and a sense of responsibility