Japan
Published on: November 13, 2026
Our client is a large fintech business developing digital payments and financial services for people and businesses across Japan. Its work spans everyday payments and a growing range of financial services, with a focus on using technology to make financial experiences more accessible and useful. The organisation brings together colleagues from many countries and backgrounds, combining expertise across technology, data and finance.
A curious, collaborative culture encourages people to take ownership, challenge established approaches and work across disciplines. As the business continues to develop its financial services, the team is investing in the responsible use of AI and data to address complex, large-scale challenges. This is an opportunity to contribute to products with broad reach and help shape how data and AI support the next generation of financial experiences.
As Product Manager, AI and Data Products, you will connect business priorities with the work of engineering and data science teams, helping build dependable AI and data capabilities for financial services. You will clarify business needs and translate them into actionable requirements, project specifications and system designs, so that data scientists and machine learning engineers can focus on delivery.
You will define and coordinate AI and data projects, including initiatives relating to merchant and consumer credit, track progress and keep stakeholders informed. The role also involves supporting system design with an understanding of relevant data structures and financial-sector constraints. You will help mature the platforms and practices that enable AI to operate reliably in critical systems, including MLOps. Working across business, technical and control functions, you will play a central part in bringing data-driven financial products from requirements through to implementation.
At least three years’ product management experience planning, developing and operating data- or algorithm-driven features for web services or applications.
Ability to translate broad business challenges into clearly defined problems that can be addressed through data analysis or machine learning.
Strong stakeholder management and consensus-building skills across business, engineering, data science, legal and compliance teams.
Foundational knowledge of statistics, machine learning and data pipelines, with the ability to discuss technical topics with data scientists and machine learning engineers.
Ability to write clear business requirements and product requirements documents for technical and business audiences.
Practical experience extracting data using SQL and carrying out basic analysis with Python, R or similar tools.
Experience with upstream system development, including requirements definition and high-level design.
Financial-services experience and knowledge of relevant regulations would be advantageous.
Understanding of the AI lifecycle, including proof of concept, production implementation, model monitoring, retraining and MLOps, would be beneficial.
Experience with products handling large user or data volumes, and business-level English for collaboration with global teams, would also be an advantage.
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