AI Tech Project Manager | APAC-Based | Fully Remote | Japanese Native

Job Description
Native Japanese Tech Professionals in APAC This Could Be for You!
Work with Japan. Stay where you are. No relocation required. Comfortable working with Japanese teams during Japan business hours, wed love to hear from you.
Fully remote technology opportunities for native Japanese-speaking bilingual professionals across APAC.
Work Location: Remote (Anywhere within APAC)
Mandatory Skills:AI project implementation, lead the end to end delivery of advanced Generative AI initiatives
Criteria: Bilingual Japanese Natives only.
Experience: 10+
Candidate Profile
Candidate should have practical hands-on experience implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Microsoft Copilot solutions within the Azure ecosystem. The candidate must be dynamic, committed, and capable of preparing, tracking, managing, and driving the projects. Excellent communication skills and experienced in handling multi-vendor, multi-stakeholder environments.
Primary Skills
Lead the full lifecycle of GenAI projects from Proof of Concept (PoC) to deployment on Azure, managing scope, timelines, and budget.
Supervise technical teams in developing RAG pipelines, LLM-based assistants, and agentic workflows.
Coordinate the implementation and extension of Microsoft 365 Copilots and custom Copilot Studio agents.
Manage GenAI-specific risks including hallucination mitigation, data privacy, PII masking, and Responsible AI guardrails, ensuring compliance with internal AI governance.
Should have executed large-scale migrations / implementations.
Experienced in driving major IT projects, managing multiple priorities simultaneously, setting timelines, holding people accountable, and delivering projects on time and on budget.
Experienced in Azure Services / technologies.
Expertise in planning and managing multiple stakeholders including client, offshore, and cross-functional teams to deliver the projects.
Understanding of GenAI, RAG, LLM, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, Copilot.
ADO or any project management tools.
Good in Excel, Word, PPT.
Qualifications
Secondary Skills
Strong communication skills with effective and efficient stakeholder management.
Excellent time management, prioritization, and organizational skills.
Must have experience working with tight deadlines and handling escalations.
Manage governance, collate project status reports at regular intervals to leadership team.
Daily / Weekly cadence on project / program reviews and reporting to internal stakeholders.
Track, report schedule, and cost variance across projects.
Identification of issues, risks, and track till closure or mitigation / resolution of all cloud transformation projects.
Why Is This a Great Opportunity
An opportunity to work with world's leading Cloud Computing Provider.
Only native bilingual Japanese candidates are considered for this role. Open to candidates based outside Japan (Australia or Singapore within APAC) who are willing to work remotely in the Japan business hours

Work arrangement
Yes