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As the Production Manager, you are the logistical architect of the client's account. Based in Tokyo, you will orchestrate a "follow-the-sun" production model, managing a high volume of digital, film, and AI-generated assets across Monks’ global network.

You will be the vital link between the client in Japan and our production hubs in EMEA, North America, and APAC. Your mission is to ensure that every project is delivered with Japanese precision, global scale, and maximum efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

1. Global Pipeline Management

• Cross-Border Coordination: Manage end-to-end production workflows involving multiple global offices. You are responsible for ensuring that "Project A" started in Tokyo is seamlessly picked up by teams in Europe or the Americas.
• Resource Optimization: Identify the best "Monks" for the job. Whether it’s high-end CGI in Los Angeles or a localized platform built in Singapore, you know how to navigate our global talent pool.
• Timeline & Quality Control: Implement rigorous QC processes that satisfy the high standards of Japanese "Monozukuri" (craftsmanship) while maintaining the speed of a digital-first agency.

2. AI & Future-Tech Production

• AI-First Workflow: Implement and oversee production pipelines that maximize
• Generative AI for versioning, localization, and asset creation. You will help redefine "efficiency" by reducing traditional overhead through smart tech.
• Virtual Production: Lead projects involving real-time rendering (Unreal Engine) and virtual photography
• Technical Troubleshooting: Bridge the gap between creative ambition and technical feasibility, ensuring AI-generated content meets legal, brand, and technical specifications.

3. Client & Stakeholder Diplomacy

• Local Liaison: Act as the trusted production partner for the client in Tokyo. You can explain complex global production processes in a way that builds confidence and transparency.
• Budget Stewardship: Manage complex, multi-currency budgets and SOWs. You ensure that the client gets maximum value by leveraging our global scale.
• Risk Mitigation: Anticipate bottlenecks before they happen—whether they are cultural misunderstandings, time-zone gaps, or technical hurdles.

The Ideal Profile

• 8+ years of production experience (Agency or Production House). You have a proven track record of delivering complex, integrated campaigns for global brands.
• Experience with the specific requirements of automotive production (CGI car rigs, rights & clearances, precision shooting) is highly valued.
• Native-level Japanese and professional English. You can lead a technical production call in English and then present the status update in formal Japanese to the client.
• You don't need to be a coder, but you must understand the "how" behind AI tools, 3D pipelines, and CMS platforms.
• You thrive in the "grey area" of complex projects. You are organized, calm under pressure, and a master of tools like Monday.com, Asana, or Jira.

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About Monks 

Monks is the global, digital-first, data-driven, unitary operating brand of S4 Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global Marketing and Technology Services to redefine how brands interact with the world. Through Monks.Flow, its flagship AI ecosystem for marketing orchestration, Monks transforms marketing into a growth engine, collapsing timelines and connecting brands to culture in real time. By deploying bespoke intelligent agents across disciplines and delivering culturally relevant, high-impact creative and digital solutions, Monks solves key critical business challenges across the entire brand enterprise to help brands sustain long-term impact.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services, ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-25) and remains the only partner featured in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). Named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023) and The One Show’s inaugural AI Pioneer Organization, Monks was also awarded Business Intelligence Group’s 2025 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Award in both the Organizational and AI Product categories. As a trusted partner to cutting-edge innovators in tech, Monks earned titles such as Optimizely Experimentation Partner of the Year (2025), runner-up for the Adobe Firefly Partner Award (2024), and Workato’s AI Visionary Customer Impact Award (2024). Additionally, Monks achieved a record-breaking number of FWAs and continues to hold the most of any partner.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.