<p><strong>Company Profile</strong><br /><br />A fast-growing travel tech company powering direct bookings for 8,000+ hotels across APAC is building its Gen AI product capability - and looking for the first PdM to own it end-to-end.<br /> <br /> <br /><strong>The Role</strong><br /> </p><ul><li>Travelers are moving from Google and OTAs to AI tools for planning and booking. Hotels not structured for AI discovery are becoming invisible - you'd be solving that at scale across APAC.</li><li>This is a net-new IC role reporting to the VP of Product, with a dedicated squad and four distinct workstreams: AEO (AI discoverability), agentic commerce via MCP/UCP protocols, traveler-facing AI agents, and an AI Concierge Manager for hotel operators.</li><li>You'll work day-to-day with the ML team, data engineers, backend devs, and Deep Learning Engineering Director - and be expected to get into bug investigation and QA when it matters.</li></ul><p><br /> <br /> <strong>Your Skills</strong><br /> </p><ul><li>5+ years of product management experience is required.</li><li>A minimum of 2 years building AI/ML-powered products is a hard requirement - candidates without this will not be progressed.</li><li>Working knowledge of AI agents, API design, and MCP/UCP protocols; you don't need to write the code, but you need to reason about the architecture.</li><li>You measure success in AI Discovery Share, zero-click conversions, and direct revenue - not feature delivery.</li><li>Professional English fluency required; Japanese proficiency is a plus.</li></ul><p><br /> <br /> <strong>Key Highlights of the Role</strong><br /> </p><ul><li>Be the first PdM owning Gen AI strategy at a company with real APAC hotel distribution - full mandate, no predecessor to inherit from.</li><li>OKRs are proposed bottom-up by PdMs; senior ICs operate with genuine autonomy over their roadmap.</li><li>Base-only compensation with no bonus split - higher monthly take-home than bonus-inclusive packages at comparable companies.</li><li>Full flextime, no core hours, hybrid 2 days in-office at Nishi-Shinjuku.</li><li>The entire interview process - including CV review - is conducted in English.</li></ul><p><br /> <br /> <strong>Location </strong><br /> <br /> Tokyo<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <strong>Salary</strong><br /> <br />10 - 15 million yen<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Reference Number: 06940-0013418736<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <em>By clicking 'apply', you are deemed to have agreed to Robert Half Japan Privacy Notice (</em><a href="https://www.roberthalf.com/jp/en/privacy"><em>https://www.roberthalf.com/jp/en/privacy</em></a><em>). Please ensure that your application documents do not include sensitive personal data such as race, beliefs, medical history, criminal record, or other information irrelevant to hiring process such as spouse or dependents. All information must be accurate and truthful, and any included hyperlinks must be safe and secure.</em><br /> <br /> <br /> </p><img src="https://counter.adcourier.com/S2hhbmcuTGUuMjc4MzkuMTA4OThAcmhpanAuYXBsaXRyYWsuY29t.gif">