3 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive customer outcomes by shaping opportunities and translating business needs into clear, actionable technical approaches.
- Build and deliver production-grade solutions in customer environments with end-to-end engineering ownership.
- Deliver iterative, high-impact solutions in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
- Engage senior stakeholders to build trust, align priorities, and guide technical and business decisions.
- Tailor solutions using industry and customer context.
- Prepare and transition work to Forward Deployed Engineering crews with clear scope and technical direction.
- Navigate complex account dynamics while driving urgency, accountability, and sustained impact.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience in engineering, product or technical program management, data analysis, or product development, or equivalent experience.
- At least 3 years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end-to-end.
- Fluency in Japanese and English.
- Preferred: bachelor's degree and 10+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.
- Preferred: 2+ years of experience in customer-facing technical roles such as consulting, solutions engineering, or field engineering.
- Preferred: experience with AI/ML technologies, cloud architecture, data engineering, and AI tools and workflows for creating software engineering artifacts.
- Comfort with travel of up to 25%.
Benefits
- Flexible work environment with the ability to work in the way that best enables the employee to get the job done.
- Health, wellness, and financial benefits designed around employees' personal needs.
- Equal opportunity employment and reasonable accommodations during the application process.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.