New Market Project Manager - Japanese Speaking (Remote)

About the Role

We’re hiring a New Market Project Manager to join our team at Zego. This role is pivotal as we launch a new proposition in Japan, and it requires fluency in Japanese and English. As a New Market Project Manager, you will lead the project from inception to execution, ensuring that we validate our core telematics insurance thesis in one of the world’s largest markets.

What You'll Do

• Own programme delivery end-to-end: manage the full partnership timeline, run working groups with senior stakeholders across Zego and our Japanese partners, surface risks and dependencies early, and keep all workstreams moving in the right direction.
• Act as the primary bridge between Zego and our Japanese partners: build trusted relationships with senior counterparts, navigate cross-cultural working styles, and ensure clear, accurate communication flows in both directions — in Japanese and English.
• Drive proposition definition and validation: work closely with product, data science, engineering, and commercial teams to define the proposition, test assumptions, and move from concept to validated product.
• Keep leadership informed and aligned: distil programme complexity into clear, concise updates for senior stakeholders at Zego and partner organisations, flagging decisions that need to be made and recommendations to move forward.
• Coordinate across functions: serve as the connective tissue across a cross-disciplinary team, ensuring everyone is aligned, accountable, and unblocked.

Requirements

• Fluent Japanese (JLPT N1 or native) and fluent English — comfortable running meetings, writing documents, and negotiating in both languages.
• 4–7 years of experience managing complex, cross-functional programmes — ideally in technology, insurance, or financial services.
• Demonstrable experience working across Japan and the UK (or comparable international environments).
• Self-starting, proactive, and comfortable with ambiguity.
• Confident communicator who can work fluently across technical and non-technical teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a startup environment.
• Passion for building transformative solutions in the insurance sector.

What We Offer

• Market-competitive salary.
• Private medical insurance.
• Company share options.
• Generous holiday allowance.
• Flexible hybrid working contribution.