
AI Automation Lead F/M/X
Mars, Incorporated1 hour ago
Tokyo, JapanStaff+
Responsibilities
- Identify AI and automation opportunities across testing, release management, reporting, recurring manual tasks, and other team workflows.
- Build business cases that estimate effort saved, risk reduction, customer experience improvements, and business value.
- Design, build, and maintain automated test suites to improve regression coverage and reduce manual testing.
- Automate repetitive internal processes such as status reporting, environment refreshes, backlog hygiene, and documentation.
- Pilot and operationalize generative-AI and agentic tools within Responsible AI guardrails.
- Package successful automations and prompts as documented, reusable assets for replication across streams and markets.
- Define and track success metrics including time saved, error reduction, adoption, and business value.
- Promote automation literacy through training, newsletters, demonstrations, and practical knowledge sharing.
- Help establish standards, templates, and reusable assets for a structured automation practice.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in IT, Business Administration, or a related field.
- 2 to 4 years of experience in test automation, process/RPA automation, or a related quality or engineering role.
- Ideally, experience in a Salesforce or broader SaaS delivery environment.
- Hands-on experience with test automation tooling and basic Python or JavaScript scripting for custom automations and integrations.
- Working knowledge of generative-AI and agentic tools such as Copilot-type assistants, Claude, Agentforce, and OpenAI-style APIs.
- Familiarity with low-code automation or RPA platforms is preferred.
- Ability to map processes, identify automatable steps, and evaluate effort versus value without over-engineering.
- Comfort working in an Agile delivery environment and documenting, testing, and handing over maintainable automations.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical automations to non-technical stakeholders and driving adoption.
- Pragmatic, curious, improvement-driven approach with an interest in experimentation, measurement, and scaling successful solutions.