- Hiring from
- Japan
- Work type
- Hybrid
- Posted
- Sep 25, 2026
About the Company
A Major Global Financial Company is hiring for their new AI-native Technology Transformation Team within their Japanese branch. Their services extend across multiple domains including financial management and insurance, with Japan their most profitable branch making up 25% of global earnings.
In the Japan Transformation Team, you would help transform fragmented processes into integrated, digital, and AI-enabled experiences that modernize how this company operates: designing intuitive, end-to-end customer, advisor, and operational experiences across digital products, platforms, and business workflows.
This not a manager role, but is an ideal opportunity for a lead-mindset designer who wants the chance to drive product adoption and foster a tech-forward organization!
What would you be doing?
- Align the Japan Transformation Team's UX Strategy, Vision, and Design System, as a leader of design.
- Champion AI-Native design thinking across customer journeys and business workflows.
- Lead User Research & Discovery to identify unmet needs and opportunities for innovation.
- Stakeholder Management, partnering with Product Management, Engineering, Operations, and Business teams.
What’s interesting about this role?
- Annual Base Salary up to 2000万 JPY, plus Stock/Equity in USD.
- Hybrid Remote Work + Flextime.
- Take a lot of ownership in a new start-up-like environment while also enjoying the backing of an established company.
- Other Benefits like: Defined Contribution (DC) pension plans, company-sponsored retirement allowances, and employee stock purchase plans (ESPP).
What experience are we looking for?
- 5+ Years Professional experience in Product Design across digital products, platforms, or customer-facing experiences.
- UI/UX Design leadership experience of teams or projects.
- Ability to manage complex stakeholder environments and balancing competing priorities.
- Business-level English and Japanese (Recommended equivalent to TOEIC 800 and JLPT N1).