Senior Project Manager (AI Project)

At Omise, we believe the digitalization of the economy has opened up the world and offers endless opportunities to grow and make meaningful connections with one another. Omise is powered by its payment infrastructure sister company, Omise Payment Holdings, which provides one-stop online payment solutions.
Omise connects people, businesses and society in innovative ways to provide fair and open access to a growing economic ecosystem under its vision of enabling access to the digital economy for everyone. We are on a mission to make digital finance seamless and borderless for people and businesses. Our solutions are used by thousands of companies worldwide including Toyota, ByteDance, ICBC, SCB, True, Allianz Ayudhya, McDonald’s, BMW, King Power and Pomelo.
We are obsessed with solving financial coordination problems and developing new business models and technology that enable businesses to grow. We focus on addressing financial complexities and chokepoints by offering seamless and borderless solutions for our customers because we want them to focus on their core business and value proposition.
As a value-driven organization, we are dedicated to selecting and retaining the sharpest minds across all functions. Help us make digital finance seamless and borderless for people and businesses.
Why we need you
We need a Senior Project Manager to serve as the strategic engine of the team, driving complex milestones while bridging the gap between our R&D, Social Implementation, and Ecosystem working groups. Your ability to align goals with R&D institutes and foundation governance will be vital in ensuring that high-level research translates into actionable engineering priorities.
By leveraging your technical depth in Machine Learning and GPU infrastructure, you will proactively mitigate risks and manage critical resources to move our vision from research to real-world application.
What you will be doing
Manage the overall project schedule, tracking milestones and dependencies across all sub-teams
Coordinate with R&D institute project counterparts to align deliverable timelines and integration windows
Facilitate cross-working-group communication for ensuring R&D outcomes flow into the Dev Team's integration backlog and social implementation requirements are reflected in engineering priorities
Proactively surface blockers such as GPU procurement delays, R&D schedule slips, or partner staffing gaps for risk identification and mitigation
Budget and resource tracking by monitor GPU allocation utilization, cloud spend per account, and headcount against plan
Organize and run sprint planning, retrospectives, and stage gate review preparation
Maintain project documentation, including status reports, decision logs, RACI matrices, and dependency maps
Coordinate with the project foundation governance on reporting, compliance milestones, and external communications
Ensure project documentation is complete and audit-ready (plans, RAID, sign-offs, key decisions)
You
6–8+ years experience in IT/software project management
Proven track record of leading complex, multi-team software and Machine Learning projects from inception to delivery
Advanced Agile/Scrum Mastery. Extensive experience managing sprint-based delivery cycles, specifically focusing on resolving intricate cross-team dependencies.
Technical Depth in Cloud & ML. Sufficient technical literacy to oversee GPU provisioning, training pipelines, and inference architecture
Ability to identify and mitigate risks early within R&D-heavy programs where timelines and technical hurdles are often fluid.
High-level expertise in Jira, Confluence, and Notion for rigorous project tracking, comprehensive documentation, and executive reporting.
Expert-level fluency in English. Must be capable of navigating high-level communications between R&D institutes, external partners, and foundation governance bodies.
Proficiency in Japanese is preferred but not required
How to apply
If you liked what you read and believe to be up for the challenge, we'd be pleased to welcome you to the recruitment process for this position. Simply click on apply and submit your contact info. Afterward, this will happen next:
The hiring team will review your application
2-3 Interviews with the hiring team, People Operations team and all stakeholders involved in the process
Why you’ll love it here
Work with other talented, ambitious international colleagues who love their craft
A modern and well-equipped work environment
Flexible working hours
A medical healthcare plan and annual health check-up
A friendly bunch of colleagues
What we believe in
We cultivate teamwork and a trust-based working culture
We celebrate diversity and continuous improvement
Giving our employees the opportunity and create for their own success
About Omise
Founded in 2013, 500 people
Headquartered in Japan, with operational headquarters in Bangkok and offices in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia.
Raised over $236M of funding to date from institutional investors including SCB10X, SPARX Group Co. Ltd., Toyota Financial Services Corporation, JIC Venture Growth Investments, MUFG Bank, Mars Growth Capital, Ascend Venture Group, and more
Won Digital Startup of the Year at Digital Thailand Big Bang 2017
Won Forbes Japan Startup of the Year 2018
Won 3 awards from International Business Magazine Award 2020
Most Innovative Electronic Payment Platform for Singapore
Most Innovative Seamless Transactions Provider for Singapore
Best Payment Solutions Provider in Singapore
Won Mizuho Innovation Award 2022 (Q2)
Life at Omise
Nearly 500 employees work from our six office locations as well as remotely from home or co-working spaces. While we are a global company, a lot of our thinking goes into how to solve payment problems at the hyper-local level to help businesses scale and reach their customers.
Our core values — simple, real, and beautiful serve as our North Star and are integrated into how we work and the results of our work.
At Omise, we empower people to embrace project-ownership and take initiative. We love to see our employees act as the owner of the outcome and confidently provide solutions to each challenge, taking a collaborative teamwork approach. Our fellow employees are encouraged to discuss and share ideas, and are given the freedom to explore all areas of their work, in order to achieve the expected results.
People at Omise are from different backgrounds and together, we contribute to creating an inclusive, friendly, and safe working environment. As a company, we embrace diversity and value open discussions, a learning mindset, professionalism, and respect. “Growing with us” means to celebrate the challeng

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
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