DX Promotion Director

This role leads enterprise-wide digital transformation at Mizuho Securities, working across the financial group and coordinating with business units and CUGs. Responsibilities include setting DX themes, developing roadmaps, planning budgets and staffing, creating reform initiatives, leading Go/No-Go decisions, monitoring progress, and removing cross-functional obstacles with business and IT teams.

The director manages large DX projects involving AI, data platforms, business transformation, and operational efficiency. Duties include requirements organization, project scoping, deliverable quality control, issue and risk management, negotiation with IT vendors and related departments, and preparation of reports for management and steering committees.

The role also requires communication with company-wide stakeholders, explaining the value of DX, involving business departments, facilitating agreement across organizational boundaries, and promoting change management to reduce resistance to transformation. Team responsibilities include mentoring project members and junior DX personnel, planning skill development in AI literacy and project management, and improving departmental operations through meeting design and work standardization.

Required capabilities include experience managing or supporting large-scale projects through PM or PMO work, coordination with stakeholders from executives to frontline staff, structured issue analysis and documentation, practical knowledge and experience in DX, data, and AI, and communication skills for cross-departmental consensus building. Preferred experience includes AI and data utilization projects from prototyping and proof of concept through enterprise adoption, consulting or corporate planning work, technical knowledge of cloud, application platforms, or AI models, securities or banking industry knowledge, team management, and practical English proficiency.

Potential assignments include operating a cross-functional task force for business process reform, promoting AI use and AI governance, office administration and sales-branch reform, data utilization, and company-wide PMO work covering risk, progress, and budget management.

The position is full-time and based at the Tokyo headquarters in Otemachi, Chiyoda-ku. Remote work is available, with office attendance as needed. Working hours are 8:40 to 17:10, with 7 hours 30 minutes of scheduled work and a 60-minute break. Overtime and holiday work may be required, and a flextime system may apply. Annual leave is 21 days, subject to the hiring month in the first year, with weekends, public holidays, year-end and New Year holidays, and other special leave. Benefits include social insurance, an employee stock ownership plan, babysitter childcare discount support, and asset-building support. The probationary period is six months with the same salary. Performance-related bonuses may be paid twice annually under a table-based treatment or once annually under an individual treatment. As a managerial supervisor, overtime allowances are not paid except for late-night work after 22:00.