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AI Robot Association

Open robotics research association

Governance Manager - Corporate Division

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/17/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Tokyo, Japan
HybridPrimarily office-based; remote work is possible.
Risk & ComplianceRegulatory Compliance & Ethics

About the job

Requirements
  • Proven experience establishing frameworks or driving projects in governance, risk management, legal, or internal controls within a commercial company, nonprofit organization, or consulting firm.
  • Demonstrated experience concurrently managing daily operational tasks and medium- to long-term structural projects from the design phase onward.
  • A strong track record of negotiation and consensus-building with executive management and business unit heads.
  • Ability to identify core issues in ambiguous medium- to long-term challenges and design business processes and rules by working backward from the desired outcome.
  • Ability to balance business speed and operational workload with risk management, considering both quantitative and qualitative factors.
  • Ability to take ownership, work alongside team members in daily operations, and reliably execute routine tasks such as policy management and monitoring.
Responsibilities
  • Plan, design, and drive projects that address governance challenges identified as the business evolves.
  • Collaborate with external experts and executive management to define and implement new governance requirements and standards.
  • Execute and monitor processes concerning conflicts of interest and related-party transactions, and continuously improve them to reflect actual operating conditions.
  • Update internal rules and regulations in line with organizational and business development.
  • Identify operational distortions or friction and build a continuous feedback loop to inform and refine medium- to long-term institutional design.
  • Determine how to reach agreement based on external counsel’s legal opinions by designing alternative terms and negotiation strategies, aligning stakeholders, and driving matters through to final agreement.
  • Identify and organize key risks for major contract types; develop standard documentation, including templates and guidelines; and design the process from review through execution.
  • Build a governance framework linked to board and committee operations; establish lifecycle management for contracts, purchase orders, acceptance and inspection, and change management; and establish operational rules that can withstand audits and external accountability.
  • Oversee large-scale domestic and international deals and the organization’s broader risk management framework.
Desired Qualifications
  • For contractors, experience embedding within a client organization to lead hands-on establishment or improvement of back-office operations.
  • Practical experience designing and operating governance frameworks focused on conflicts of interest and related-party transactions.
  • Experience functioning as a cross-functional PMO across an organization beyond traditional legal and compliance boundaries.

About the company

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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What believers are saying

  • On 2026-08-03, AIRoA released 5,000 hours of robot motion data and a foundation model.
  • On 2026-08-04, it consolidated at a 3,500 m² Heiwajima facility, signaling execution.
  • Its 2026-02-10 ICRA workshop and RSJ 2026 talks widen partner demand and visibility.

What critics are saying

  • AIRoA depends on public programs like NEDO and GENIAC, exposing it to budget cuts.
  • Open-data coordination among members can stall, while DeepMind and NVIDIA race ahead.
  • If members stop contributing data, AIRoA’s ecosystem model loses scale and relevance quickly.

What makes AI Robot Association unique

  • AIRoA launched in 2024 as Japan’s open robot-data consortium, not a single vendor.
  • It combines academia, industry, and METI-NEDO-backed projects around robot foundation models.
  • Its Heiwajima hub centralizes R&D and corporate functions across Tokyo, Miraikan, and Kyoto.

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Benefits

  • Remote Work Options
  • Training Programs
  • Commuter Benefits