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Direct Merchant Program Specialist

Japan, Tokyo · Job Posted May 10, 2026
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Job Description

The Program Specialist IV (Direct LoB) will own end-to-end operational excellence, stakeholder alignment, and program management for Japan’s Direct Merchant business. This role serves as the primary CommOps point of contact for Direct workflows, ensuring stable day-to-day operations, scalable process design, and readiness for product launches and merchant-facing policy changes. The candidate will be responsible for maintaining and improving key support metrics (CSAT, Contact Rate, Automation Rate, etc), driving VOC insights, leading cross-functional initiatives, and ensuring operational continuity across Sales, Account Management, BPO vendors, Product, and Operations teams. As YoY Direct trips grow and new retail/logistics use cases expand, this role is critical to sustaining reliability, partner trust, and business growth.

Job Responsibility

  • Manage program governance for Direct-related initiatives, ensuring smooth launch readiness, scalable adoption, and high-quality merchant and customer experiences.
  • Drive incident and escalation management, serving as the first-line contact during outages, major campaigns, and merchant-impacting events.
  • Analyze operational data (CTGs, trends, inflow) to identify issues, propose improvements, and guide cross-functional teams toward actionable solutions.
  • Develop and maintain standardized operating procedures, training, and documentation to support BPO and partner teams.
  • Collaborate with Product teams to surface VOC, identify feature gaps, submit bug/UX requests, and influence the roadmap for Japan’s Direct business.
  • Lead BPO/vendor management for Direct workflows, ensuring performance, quality, and compliance across all support channels.
  • Support commercial growth initiatives, including retail expansion (Momo, PChome, Yamato), grocery use cases, contract renewals with national merchants, and new delivery models (3W, DP pickup, microDC).
  • Partner with local and regional leadership to align on strategy, prioritize operational gaps, and ensure Direct LoB projects contribute to 2025 strategic pillars.
  • Create and present insights to leadership, translating operational data into business impact and recommending structural improvements.

Requirements

  • Fluency in English
  • business-level Japanese strongly preferred.
  • Proven ability to analyze operational data, identify root causes, and translate insights into scalable solutions.
  • Experience in program or project management within a complex, cross-functional environment.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority.
  • Experience working with or managing BPO/vendor teams, ensuring high-quality execution.
  • Ability to operate in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and independently drive initiatives from ideation to execution.
  • Familiarity with operational workflows, product processes, and support ecosystems in high-growth businesses.
  • Comfortable leveraging AI tools and automation frameworks to drive operational efficiency.

Nice to have

  • Prior experience within Japan’s Merchant, Retail, Logistics, or Delivery industries.
  • Deep understanding of Uber’s Merchant ecosystem or experience supporting Japan-based merchants.
  • Track record of standing up or scaling operations in a global or regional organization.
  • Experience leading product-readiness initiatives and cross-functional launch planning.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to connect operational levers to broader commercial outcomes.
  • Previous ownership of highly complex workflows with multiple dependencies.
  • Strategic thinking with the ability to balance quick wins with long-term scalability.

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