Project Manager (CTO Office), Tokyo

Overview

At Money Forward, organization-wide engineering themes—such as AI utilization, security, technical standards, development productivity, and global development structures—are becoming increasingly vital.

The CTO Office plays a pivotal role in translating company-wide technical strategies into actionable projects and driving them forward. We work in close collaboration with the CTO/CxO, VPoXs, various development organizations, the CISO Office, design teams, business units, and overseas branches.

These initiatives are not confined to a specific product or a single department. They involve a large number of stakeholders, complex combinations of technical, organizational, and business considerations, and shifting priorities depending on the situation. Therefore, we are seeking a Project Manager who can consistently lead the entire process—from problem definition and consensus building to planning, execution management, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication.

Mission

As a Project Manager in the CTO Office, you will lead company-wide, mission-critical projects to success. Your goal will be to enable Money Forward's engineering organization to deliver value faster, more securely, and on a global scale.

Your primary missions will include:

• Initiating, planning, driving, and embedding cross-functional, company-wide projects led by the CTO Office.
• Aligning expectations, supporting decision-making, and resolving issues among diverse stakeholders across multiple departments and roles.
• Managing projects centered around key strategic themes, such as AI utilization, security enhancement, technical standards, development productivity, and global organization building.
• Facilitating smooth communication in both Japanese and English with domestic and international engineers, management, and business teams.

Responsibilities and Duties

As a Project Manager for cross-functional initiatives driven by the CTO Office, you will be responsible for the following areas. While this role includes routine project management duties, your primary responsibility will be to dive deep into high-priority themes as needed to push projects forward.

• Planning and Execution Management for Company-Wide AI Initiatives
• Managing progress, issues, and risks for multi-organizational AI initiatives, including AI utilization platforms, AI agents, AI development tools, and AI usage guidelines.
• Coordinating with product development teams, platform teams, business units, QA, and security stakeholders.
• Preparing progress reports, structuring discussion points, and supporting decision-making for the steering committee.
• Driving Projects Related to Security Enhancement and Governance Strengthening
• Facilitating post-incident recurrence prevention, development process improvements, security reviews, and governance reviews.
• Collaborating with the CISO Office, development organizations, and legal/compliance teams.
• Driving Technical Standards, Architecture Reviews, and Development Process Improvements
• Supporting the formulation, review, publication, and operational improvement of company-wide technical standards.
• Optimizing cross-tool operations involving standardization processes, review requests, and approval tracking.
• Designing, improving, and embedding processes for architecture and governance reviews.
• Driving Projects Related to Developer Productivity
• Improving developer portals, consolidating technical information, streamlining knowledge flows for developers, and visualizing tool utilization.
• Gathering challenges faced by development organizations, aligning with stakeholders on resolution strategies, and translating them into actionable plans.
• Driving Projects for Global Engineering Organization Building
• Managing projects in collaboration with engineers, managers, and PMs/PdMs across both Japan and overseas branches.
• Facilitating meetings, creating documentation, and sharing information via chat tools—all in English.
• Developing Project Management Infrastructure
• Managing milestones, schedules, issues, risks, dependencies, and decision logs.
• Utilizing internal collaboration, document management, and development tools to organize information and ensure high progress transparency.
• Summarizing complex situations and communicating them at the appropriate level of granularity for executives, management, and engineering teams.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience leading projects involving multiple departments and diverse roles.
• Experience defining project objectives, scopes, milestones, issues, and risks, and driving initiatives forward while engaging stakeholders.
• Experience communicating with diverse stakeholders, including executives, department heads, engineers, designers, and business teams.
• Ability to structure discussion points for ambiguous topics, clarifying next steps and decisions to be made.
• Strong business communication skills in Japanese.
• Business communication skills in English, at a level sufficient to conduct meetings, chat communications, and documentation with engineers and managers at overseas branches.
• Experience organizing information and sharing progress using collaboration tools.
• Ability to prioritize and drive multiple projects forward in a fast-paced, multi-tasking environment.

Preferred Skills and Experience

You do not need to possess all of the following. We welcome candidates with experience in any of the following areas:

• Experience driving projects related to AI utilization, Generative AI, AI agents, or AI development tools.
• Experience driving projects related to security, governance, risk management, or compliance.
• Hands-on experience with technical standards, development processes, architecture reviews, or improving developer productivity.
• Project management experience within global or multinational teams.
• Professional experience within engineering organizations, product development teams, or SaaS companies.
• Experience designing, scaling, and embedding organizational processes and operational workflows across multiple departments.
• Experience in operational and information design by integrating collaboration tools, document management tools, and development-related applications.
• Experience in software development, engineering management, or product management.
• Experience in AI development and/or experience in using AI tools to improve development processes.
• Money Forward is at a major turning point, shifting "from Cloud to AI." We are currently driving "AX (AI Transformation)"—the next step beyond DX—with the goal of providing "Digital Workers," where AI agents autonomously execute tasks. As we enter a phase of evolving into Japan's No. 1 back-office AI company by integrating AI agents into all of our products in the future, we are looking for individuals who can contribute to AI-driven development and value creation.(More information here(https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/full-transcript-money-forward-announced-ai-strategy-vision-phwoc/?trackingId=sl33ZIGRFzkBJJv7wI9qsg%3D%3D))

Note: Hands-on development experience is not required. Rather than the ability to implement technical details yourself, we place a higher priority on the ability to understand technical discussion points, converse effectively with relevant stakeholders, and drive projects forward.

Language Requirements

Language Proficiency: Candidates are required to facilitate business discussions, coordination, and documentation in both Japanese and English.

• Japanese: Business level or above
• Ability to conduct precise business discussions and coordination in Japanese.
• English: Business level or above
• Ability to communicate in English with engineers, overseas members, and English-speaking managers.

Who We’re Looking For

• An individual who can drive initiatives forward even in highly uncertain environments by effectively structuring goals and key discussion points.
• An individual who can understand diverse stakeholder perspectives to facilitate consensus-building and support decision-making.
• An individual with a strong interest in the intersection of technology, organization, and business, who is eager to take on impactful, company-wide initiatives.
• An individual who can communicate information clearly and adaptively in both Japanese and English, tailored to the audience.
• An individual who takes personal ownership of project success and proactively takes the initiative to achieve it.
• An individual who demonstrates deep respect for others and thrives in collaboration with members of diverse expertise.

Tools Used

• Business Intelligence / Data Infrastructure: BigQuery, Looker
• Communication: Slack, Miro, Notion, Zoom
• Project Management & Visualization: Jira
• AI Tools: Notion AI, Cursor, Claude Code

Work Environment

At Money Forward, we provide an environment where we can create world-class services together, and we are looking forward to welcoming you.

• Provided PC Specs: We provide PCs equipped with the latest CPUs (MacOS or Windows). Custom-made PCs tailored to business requirements and replacements with the latest OS are also possible.
• Money Forward Library: We have a library system where you can freely borrow books, ranging from technical books to management books. Desired books can be purchased at the company's expense.

【職種 / 募集ポジション】
Project Manager (CTO Office), Tokyo
【雇用形態】
正社員
【給与】
年収 6,900,000円 〜 11,004,000円
Monthly salary system ※Includes fixed allowances for up to 45 hours of legal overtime, legal holiday work, and 40 hours of late-night work.
【勤務地】
108-0023 21F Tamachi Station Tower S, msb Tamachi, 3-1-21 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo
【Salary System】
Min 575,000 JPY / month（6,900,000 JPY / year）〜917,000 JPY / month（11,004,000 JPY / year） Each including fixed allowances of 167,414 JPY〜266,988 JPY / month.
【Bonus】
A「High Performance Bonus」may be paid to employees who receive high evaluations based on semi-annual evaluations in addition to their salary. ※Please note that the remuneration of the High Performance Bonus is subject to change according to the company's performance.
【Probation Period】
3 months from join date
【Working Hour System】
Discretionary Labor System for Professional Work ※Conditions apply; subject to change to Flextime System.
【Working Hours】
9:30 - 18:30 (60 min break) are the basic working hours. However, employees are able to choose their working hours at their own discretion. ※There is potential for overtime work outside the determined hours.
【Work Style Policy】
Hybrid work style ・As a standard practice, employees are required to work at the office a minimum of 2 days per week. Employees are encouraged to spend 3 or more days in the office. (This policy may be subject to change based on the company and job circumstances) ・The specific "team office days" may vary depending on the assigned team.
【Holidays/Vacations】
■ Saturdays / Sundays / Japanese national holidays ■ Paid holidays ■ Summer holidays (3 days) ■ Winter holidays (2 days) ■ Year-end and New Year’s holidays (Dec 31st～Jan 3rd)
【Benefits】
■ Various social insurances (employee pension, health insurance, employment insurance, industrial accident compensation insurance) ■ Neighborhood housing allowance and neighborhood moving allowance ■ Salary-based rent deduction benefit ■ Health check and gynecological checkup ■ Influenza vaccine ■ Book purchases support ■ Defined-contribution corporate pension ■ Employee stock ownership plan ■ Preferential treatment when using the following services（limited to businesses under contract with Money Forward） 　- Rental agency 　- Housekeeping services 　- Babysitting 　- Online English conversation school
【Selection Process１】
Casual interview/Document Screening ↓ First interview (Depending on the position, there may be a technical assignment before the interview) ↓ Several interviews (The number of interviews depends on the position) ↓ Final interview (We may ask for a reference check before or after the interview) ↓ Job offer/Offer meeting ※The process may be subject to change depending on the case.
【Selection Process２】
■ What are reference checks? Money Forward may ask for your cooperation with reference checks using a reference check service tool. We believe that mutual understanding is limited to the selection process alone. Therefore, we would like to gather information about you from your supervisor and colleagues at your current or former company to ensure a more reliable match and facilitate your early success after joining our company. ※We do not make employment decisions based solely on the contents of reference checks. ※The fact that you are in the selection process with us will not be disclosed to referees.
【Notes】

• Range of change in job description: Work as determined by the company ・Range of change in work location: Work location as determined by the company
  【Reference Information】
  https://recruit.moneyforward.com/#introduction

会社情報

【会社名】
株式会社マネーフォワード
【代表者】
代表取締役社長グループCEO 辻 庸介
【創業】
2012年5月
【取締役】
金坂 直哉 中出 匠哉 竹田 正信 石原 千亜希
【社外取締役】
安武 弘晃 宮澤 弦 Ryu Kawano Suliawan 菊間 千乃 芦田 健 上田 梨々子
【監査役】
畠山 優実 田中 克幸 西山  茂
【グループCxO・VPox】
上利 陽太郎 瀧 俊雄 山田 一也 坂 裕和 松岡 俊 伊藤 セルジオ 大輔 関田 雅和 松久 正幸 野村 一仁 長尾 祐美子 渋谷 亮 金井 恵子 梅田 康吉
【執行役員】
田平 公伸 本川 大輔 冨山 直道 永井 博 駒口 哲也 廣原 亜樹 島村 誠一郎 永井 七奈 木村 慎治 丸山 嘉伸 吉本 憲文 工藤 裕之 島内 広史 小山 幸宏 渡辺 恵伍 松村 道夫 岩崎 大
【オフィス】
本社オフィス 〒108-0023　東京都港区芝浦3-1-21 msb Tamachi 田町ステーションタワーS 21F 北海道支社 〒060-0061　北海道札幌市中央区南一条西4-5-1 札幌大手町ビル3階 東北支社 〒980-0021 宮城県仙台市青葉区中央2-2-10 仙都会館 5F 東海支社、名古屋開発拠点 〒450-6213　愛知県名古屋市中村区名駅4-7-1 ミッドランドスクエア 13F 京都支社、京都開発拠点 〒604-8004　京都府京都市中京区三条通河原町東入中島町78番地 明治屋京都ビル 4階 関西支社、大阪開発拠点 〒541-0042　大阪府大阪市中央区今橋 2-5-8 トレードピア淀屋橋 9階 広島支社 〒730-0015　広島市中区橋本町9-7 ビル博丈5F 九州・沖縄支社、福岡開発拠点 〒810-0041　福岡県福岡市中央区大名2丁目6-50　福岡大名ガーデンシティ 16F
【社内コミュニケーション活性化の取り組み】
■全社週次/月次朝会/半期総会 ■代表との意見交換会（CEOセッション） ■全社懇親会（MF Happy Hour） ■他部門社員との交流会（シャッフルランチ・ディナー） ■上長との定期1on1（ツキイチ面談） ■社内公募制度（MFチャレンジシステム） ■社員満足度調査（MFグループサーベイ） ※一部正社員のみ
【労働条件】
屋内原則禁煙（喫煙室あり）等
【中途採用比率】
2021年11月末　93.8％ 2022年11月末　90.0% 2023年11月末　76.6％ 2024年11月末　88.7%