Next-Generation Operations Platform Planning and Promotion Specialist for AI Utilization
Japan’s largest mobile payments platform (~75M users); SoftBank/LY Corporation fintech JV; 40% equity holder of Binance Japan.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About PayPay
PayPay Corporation is a Tokyo-based fintech company operating Japan’s leading QR/mobile payment service, founded 2018 as a SoftBank/Yahoo Japan (LY Corporation) joint venture, with banking (PayPay Bank), insurance and securities offerings. In October 2025 PayPay acquired a 40% equity stake in Binance Japan, making the crypto exchange an equity-method affiliate.
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About the Role
You will plan and drive next-generation operational platforms and technology-enabled automation. You will identify structural business issues, design AI-centered automation platforms and IT solutions, manage development projects, coordinate business and engineering stakeholders, and promote AI adoption across the organization.
Requirements
- Ownership and execution capability
- Project promotion and cross-functional consensus-building skills
- Logical thinking and problem-solving skills
- Basic knowledge of automation using RPA, scripts, ERP, or workflow management tools
- Documentation skills for business flows, standard procedures, and knowledge materials
- Experience identifying bottlenecks and improving business processes
- Experience designing or operating BPO or offshore outsourcing
- Ability to implement basic automation or data processing using Python, SQL, or VBA
- Experience planning or delivering IT solutions from root-cause identification
- Practical experience planning systems or managing full-scratch projects
- Experience developing applications using large language model APIs, or strong willingness to learn
- Basic understanding of AWS, Azure, or GCP infrastructure
- At least five years of practical software development experience for the development engineer track
- Experience leading architecture design and technology selection
- Experience defining requirements or managing products with business users
- Business-level Japanese for the development engineer track
Responsibilities
- Plan and design AI-enabled automation platforms
- Drive development projects involving AI utilization
- Manage and support multiple projects of varying scales
- Plan and design IT solutions with a focus on AI
- Promote AI adoption within the headquarters and across the company
- Develop platforms using Python and low-code tools
- Introduce machine-learning and AI models for automation and efficiency
- Develop operational support tools using generative AI and natural language processing
- Build and improve data integration platforms and ETL pipelines
- Coordinate cross-functional work with engineers, data scientists, and business specialists
- Redesign operational processes and automate systems
- Create automation system requirements
- Analyze business issues and needs
- Coordinate quality, cost, and delivery with system development departments
Benefits
- Hybrid workstyle
- Super flextime with no core hours
- Annual paid leave of 14 days in the first year
- Personal leave of 5 days annually
- Health insurance
- Employees' pension insurance
- Employment insurance
- Workers' compensation insurance
- Corporate defined-contribution pension plan
