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 challenges and to always look for opportunities to learn, develop your skills, and move one step forward each day. If this is the work environment you are looking for, then get in touch with us.

We look forward to hearing from you. Omise embraces diversity and nourishes an open and inclusive work environment. We are home to over 27 nationalities and all decisions to hire, promote or discharge are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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