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AI Robot Association

Open robotics research association

Corporate IT Manager

IT OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeTokyo, Japan¥10M - ¥14M /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • Track record of leading multiple domains across Corporate IT, internal systems, and IT infrastructure.
  • Proven experience leading IT projects or engineering teams.
  • Experience managing external vendors, consultants, and contractors.
  • Track record defining requirements and managing priority trade-offs with internal stakeholders.
  • Foundational knowledge across networking, cloud, SaaS, endpoint management, and security, with the ability to engage in technical discussions with domain specialists.
  • Ability to make sound engineering judgments and execute appropriate escalations during outages or security incidents.
  • Presentation and communication skills for interacting with executive leadership and management teams.
  • Direct hands-on implementation of tools such as FortiGate, Meraki, AWS, Google Cloud, Jamf, Intune, Python, Kubernetes, or Linux server setup is not required; the core requirement is understanding specialists' technical explanations and evaluating risk, cost, and priority.
  • Preferred: Proven experience as an IT Manager or IT Department Lead.
  • Preferred: Experience formulating and managing IT budgets.
  • Preferred: Hands-on experience responding to audits such as ISMS (ISO 27001), SOC 2, or PrivacyMark (P-Mark).
  • Preferred: Experience conducting security risk assessments and vulnerability evaluations.
  • Preferred: Experience managing or overseeing Security Operations Center (SOC) functions.
  • Preferred: Practical experience establishing or maintaining IT governance frameworks and internal controls.
  • Preferred: Experience in IT legal affairs, including negotiating and managing SaaS agreements, software licenses, and vendor contracts.
  • Preferred: Knowledge of regulations and best practices regarding personal data and confidential information.
  • Preferred: Experience leading end-to-end SaaS selection and rollout projects.
  • Preferred: Exposure to or experience with public cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with or experience in on-premises network infrastructure.
  • Preferred: Experience with in-house software development or internal application integration projects.
  • Preferred: Experience formulating long-term IT strategies and organizational roadmaps.
  • Nice to have: Ability to engage in basic technical communication in English; fluent business English is not required.

Responsibilities

  • Formulate overall strategy and policy for the IT department.
  • Define priorities and operational roadmaps for IT initiatives.
  • Manage and mentor corporate engineers and network engineers.
  • Oversee temporary staff, contractors, and external vendor relationships.
  • Design and manage the IT budget from scratch.
  • Evaluate, select, and implement SaaS tools and enterprise IT services.
  • Oversee IT asset tracking and software license compliance.
  • Plan and execute information security measures and governance frameworks.
  • Drive responses to IT-related incidents and operational disruptions.
  • Lead preparations and responses for external audits, including ISMS compliance.
  • Coordinate with the legal team on IT-related contracts and compliance matters.
  • Report, propose, and align IT strategies with division heads, executive directors, and the Board of Directors.
  • Collaborate and align closely with internal stakeholders, including the R&D/Engineering department.
  • Establish long-term IT roadmaps aligned with business growth.
  • Build the Corporate IT department and organizational structure from the ground up.
  • Recruit corporate engineers and network engineers and bring the efforts together as department head/manager.

About the Company

AI Robot Association

Open robotics research association

AI Robot Association is best understood as an open research association working on foundation models for robotics. Researchers and engineers build datasets, training systems, evaluation methods, and embodied artificial-intelligence software. Its initiative brings together motion data, vision-language-action research, model development, and humanoid-robot experimentation. Roles may span machine learning, robotics, data engineering, simulation, infrastructure, research operations, and partnerships. The entity has a limited public footprint, so the profile stays close to its official research and recruiting materials.

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