Senior Program Manager
Mujin
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Tokyo • 🇯🇵 Japan
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Senior
Tech Stack
Azure
About the role
- Drive end-to-end delivery of large-scale software and systems initiatives, aligning cross-functional engineering teams around stakeholder requirements and meeting milestones, scope, and outcomes
- Organize and lead cross-functional teams through complex software and systems delivery cycles
- Serve as the primary point of contact for software program updates, effectively communicating progress, risks, and decisions to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
- Establish and oversee program governance and execution framework, ensuring effective risk mitigation, milestone tracking, and optimal resource allocation.
- Manage a portfolio of technical program and product workstreams, maintaining alignment with business priorities and delivery timelines.
- Guide the definition and evolution of major product and system portfolios, collaborating with R&D and engineering to ensure delivery feasibility and technical alignment.
- Engage with all relevant teams and own the process to collect and manage requirements needed for successful delivery.
- Ensure deliverables align with company OKRs, roadmaps, initiatives, and that performance indicators are reflections of company direction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field; Master’s or MBA preferred
- 5+ years of experience in program or project management within software development or systems engineering
- Proven experience leading large-scale programs, cross-functional software or technical programs with multiple stakeholder groups
- Strong command of agile methodologies and complex program frameworks
- Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead through influence in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
- Proven success in delivering complex software systems or platforms, ideally in industrial automation or intelligent robotics (preferred)
- Ability to collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to translate business needs into executable plans (preferred)
- Familiarity with tools for agile program tracking (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps) (preferred)
- Comfort with technical discussions, systems architecture trade-offs, and integration planning (preferred)
- Exposure to industrial technologies, software/hardware integration, and regulatory awareness is a plus (preferred)
- Experience driving stakeholder alignment across product, engineering, and customer-facing teams (preferred)
Benefits
- Flexible dress code policy
- Commuting allowance
- Japanese Social Security (Health Insurance, Pension, Labor Insurance)
- Monthly team dinner support
- Free buffet lunch every workday
- Free vending machines (offering drinks and snacks)
- High-end coffee machine
- Exclusive Employee Gym Access
- Visa sponsorship
- Flight ticket support
- Shipping expenses coverage up to a specified limit
- Assistance for housing
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
program managementproject managementagile methodologiessoftware developmentsystems engineeringstakeholder managementrequirements managementsystems architecturesoftware/hardware integrationregulatory awareness
Soft skills
strategic thinkinganalytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationinterpersonal skillsleadershipinfluencecollaborationrisk mitigationresource allocation
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMaster’s degreeMBA