Project Manager

Project Manager

Location: Japan - Greater Tokyo area preferred

Hybrid - 50/50

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DriveNets is a leader in cloud-native networking software for Hyperscalers and service providers who are building the largest infrastructures in the world for network services and AI platforms. Founded in December 2015, DriveNets disrupted some of the most challenging high-scale markets, transforming the way Networks are built, scaled, and consumed. We also built the largest network in the world, with more than half of AT&T’s backbone running on DriveNets’ Network Cloud. DriveNets has raised $587 million in three funding rounds which enable us to dream big and bring on the most talented people.

The Role

We are looking for an experienced project manager to join our growing sales and operations office in Japan as a key part of our team while driving critical product delivery and service to our service provider customers.

Responsibilities

• Meet with and become familiar with our customers and partners.
• Meet with our customers team leaders from top service provider clients and DriveNets partners on a regular basis
• Manage resources & processes for timely, quality deliverables for communications/network software and hardware projects with internal organizations, customers and partners.
• Provide end-to-end project management – From POC through Production. This includes assisting sales to negotiate and sell the value and necessity of DriveNets PS service to our potential customers and partners.
• Develop detailed plans for development, integration and customization of DriveNets technology with customers’ specific networks and operations infrastructures and monitor progress.
• Coordinate & manage internal resources by facilitating PM meeting, and at times, coordinate with third parties/vendors to streamline operations. This includes participation to report project process at internal sales meetings.
• Collaborate with internal teams (R&D, QA, CS, Sales, Sales Operation, Finance) to design, develop and implement projects lifecycle, including money collection.
• Develop support documentation including risk logs and specifications.
• Highlight potential risks or malfunctions and proactively resolve issues.
• Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Deep and broad project management experience.
• Experience managing mission critical network communications projects within a service provider, large enterprise, network communications solutions vendor or systems integrator.
• Experience and working knowledge with MS Office and Atlassian tools (Jira,Confluence)
• Proficiency in creating executive level communications e.g. producing decks/scorecards/data for senior leadership to a high standard
• Fluent Japanese and strong English

If your experience is close but doesn’t fulfill all requirements, please apply. DriveNets is on a mission to build a special company comprised of individuals with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.

DriveNets is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on upon race, religion, color, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

 More About DriveNets

Based in Israel with locations in Romania, US, and Japan as well as extended teams, DriveNets operations cover more than 16 countries. With recognition by industry analysts and through numerous industry awards, DriveNets is pushing market momentum, allowing for faster service innovation from the network core to the edge. Visit our website:

https://drivenets.com/company/