Partner Director in Tokyo

The opportunity We’re building our reseller channel in Japan from the ground up. As our first Channel Sales Coordinator, you’ll help turn early partner relationships into a repeatable program. You’ll keep onboarding, contracts, training, and day-to-day requests moving while helping us improve the processes behind them. This is a hands-on role with room to grow. You’ll do well here if you take initiative, enjoy working with people, and can make progress before every process is fully defined. What you’ll do Coordinate reseller onboarding, from initial paperwork through training and launch readiness. Prepare and track contracts, partner records, and other sales administration. Help partners get the information and support they need to start selling. Work with sales, operations, and other teams to resolve partner questions and remove blockers. Keep partner activity, next steps, and reporting accurate and up to date. Spot gaps in the partner experience and help build better workflows as the channel grows. What you’ll bring Experience in sales coordination, partner operations, sales support, or a related role. Fluent Japanese and English, with the ability to work confidently with partners and colleagues in both languages. Strong organization and follow-through across multiple priorities. A proactive, resourceful approach to work that does not yet have a playbook. Clear communication and a collaborative working style. Interest in building a reseller program and growing your career in channel sales. Application Guidelines Candidates may submit up to 9 active applications within a 60-day period. Reapplications to the same role are accepted 90 days after a previous application has been reviewed. Use of AI in Our Hiring Process We may use automated AI tools to evaluate job applications for efficiency and consistency. These tools comply with local regulations, including bias audits, and we handle all personal data in accordance with state and local privacy laws. Contact u

SLSQ127R32 At Databricks, we empower organizations to make better decisions with data and AI. As an Commercial (Mid-Market) Account Executive, you'll partner with some of Japan's most innovative and fast-growing companies - helping them unlock the full potential of their data to scale faster and smarter. You will own an Emerging territory, a portfolio of high‑potential, under‑penetrated accounts (often SMBs and Mid-market) that are not yet covered by a dedicated account owner. You are a strategic, growth-minded sales professional who thrives in dynamic environments. You understand how to engage with senior stakeholders, navigate complex organizations, and drive meaningful outcomes. You're comfortable managing both short-term opportunities and multi-threaded, strategic initiatives that expand our footprint and customer impact. You will report to Sr Manager, Sales in Japan. The impact you will have: Develop and execute a territory plan targeting Japan’s emerging market segment - growth-stage organizations with significant data and AI ambitions. Effectively manage a mix of rapid, transactional deals and complex, strategic engagements. Consistently meet and exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue goals through active prospecting and account development. Maintain high standards of operational excellence in Salesforce and Clari, including accurate forecasting, opportunity tracking (MEDDPICC), and detailed account notes. Lead with a customer-first mindset and focus on delivering measurable business value. What we look for: 3+ years of closing experience in SaaS, Cloud, Big Data or AI sales. Proven success exceeding sales KPIs and quotas. Demonstrated ability to acquire new customers and expand existing relationships. (Nice to have) Experience collaborating with partners or engaging in co-selling or partner-led motions within the technology ecosystem. Ability to quickly learn new technical concepts and confidently communicate value propositions. Fluency in Japanese and busin

About the Team The AI Deployment Management (ADM) team enables organizations to turn OpenAI products into real, sustained impact through world-class enablement and training execution. Our mission is to help customers successfully adopt and operationalize AI across their organizations. We partner with enterprises to translate the potential of OpenAI’s technology into durable capability—through structured training, technical enablement, and scalable deployment programs. By helping customers move from experimentation to production, the ADM team accelerates time-to-value, deepens product adoption, and helps make OpenAI indispensable to how organizations work. About the Role The AI Deployment Manager role is a specialist post-sales enablement role focused on delivering high-impact enablement and adoption services across OpenAI’s product suite. This role is responsible for designing and delivering technical enablement experiences that support a repeatable adoption framework– driving sustained activation, expanding breadth and depth of usage, and measurable business value across OpenAI’s product suite, including ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, Agents, and the API. This includes helping customers understand and correctly apply the deployment harnesses, evaluation layers, and operational controls required for reliable use. This role blends deep technical fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory. You will lead live trainings, workshops, and adoption interventions for audiences ranging from hands-on builders to executive leaders, helping customers understand not just what OpenAI’s products can do, but how to use them effectively in real-world contexts. Success in this role means accelerating customer confidence, increasing product adoption, supporting successful launches of new product capabilities, and helping customers translate technical features into tangible outcomes. This role is based in our Tokyo Office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per wee

About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for ensuring the safe and effective deployment of Generative AI applications for developers and startups. We act as a trusted advisor and thought partner for our customers, working to build an effective backlog of GenAI use cases for their industry and drive them to production through strong technical guidance. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to late-stage startups. About the Role We are seeking a technically proficient, business-minded Applied AI Engineer to help push the frontier of advanced AI with our strategic startup customers. You'll work with some of the most exciting AI startups in the world, guiding them through ideation, development, delivery, and scaling to accelerate and maximize the value of what they build on our platform. You will have the opportunity to work on the most novel and creative use cases being built on our API, serving as a critical partner in collecting and delivering high-fidelity product and model feedback internally. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, and Product teams, and you will report to the Startups Applied AI Lead. This role is based in our Tokyo, Japan office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. In this role, you will: Partner closely with strategic startup customers as their technical thought partner to build novel applications on our API, helping them rapidly move from ideation to scale. Provide proactive guidance to maximize business impact and accelerate application development. Experiment and prototype alongside customers, demonstrating practical use cases. Contribute to open-source resources and scale the function by sharing knowledge, codifying best practices, and publishing useful resources. Synthesize and deliver valuable feedback to the Product and Research teams. Build

About the Team The Enablement team enables organizations to turn OpenAI products into real, sustained impact through world-class enablement and training execution. Our mission is to help customers successfully adopt and operationalize AI across their organizations. We partner with enterprises to translate the potential of OpenAI’s technology into durable capability—through structured training, technical enablement, and scalable deployment programs. By helping customers move from experimentation to production, the Enablement team accelerates time-to-value, deepens product adoption, and helps make OpenAI indispensable to how organizations work. About the Role The Enablement Lead role is a specialist post-sales enablement role focused on delivering high-impact enablement and adoption services across OpenAI’s product suite. This role is responsible for designing and delivering technical enablement experiences that support a repeatable adoption framework– driving sustained activation, expanding breadth and depth of usage, and measurable business value across OpenAI’s product suite, including ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, Agents, and the API. This includes helping customers understand and correctly apply the deployment harnesses, evaluation layers, and operational controls required for reliable use. This role blends deep technical fluency, instructional design, and customer advisory. You will lead live trainings, workshops, and adoption interventions for audiences ranging from hands-on builders to executive leaders, helping customers understand not just what OpenAI’s products can do, but how to use them effectively in real-world contexts. Success in this role means accelerating customer confidence, increasing product adoption, supporting successful launches of new product capabilities, and helping customers translate technical features into tangible outcomes. This role is based in our Tokyo Office. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocat

We are looking for a Recruiting Sourcer to play a key role in the continued growth and success of Datadog by finding exceptional talent. The Recruiting Sourcer will partner closely with Recruiters to develop creative and tailored strategies to engage passive candidates. You will be the first point of contact for new candidates in the hiring process, playing a critical role in identifying great candidates and telling the Datadog story. At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Generate and maintain active and passive candidate pipeline for complex, hard-to-fill positions using various sources such as: LinkedIn Recruiter, Gem, Sourcing Campaigns, Google X Ray searching, previous event attendee lists, etc.. Amplify and champion job openings internally and work with our employee base to find hidden talent in their networks. Develop and implement strategic sourcing plans and track progress throughout the search to be shared with stakeholders Use your own research to get creative on where to find talent that otherwise might stay off the radar including diverse talent Map out the talent market, keeping a pulse of talent flow, market attrition, and which companies employ the talent we are after Specialize in event/project management, messaging analysis, creative prospecting, and stakeholder engagement Who You Are: An established Recruiter or Sourcer with 3+ years of experience working for a search firm or in-house recruiting team for high volume recruiting An individual with a high sense of urgency, strong communication skills and detail-oriented Tenacious and passionate about sourcing and engaging candidates Able to work independently and simultaneously on multiple roles An individual with a proven track record of engaging ta

MKTQ127R2 Databricks is seeking an exceptional marketing leader to serve as Head of Marketing for Japan. As Head of Marketing for Japan, you will serve as the country marketing leader and strategic business partner to the Japan leadership team helping shape overall go-to-market strategy. You will be responsible for defining and executing Databricks’ integrated marketing strategy for Japan to accelerate category leadership, pipeline growth, customer adoption, and long-term market expansion. This includes building Databricks’ reputation and presence in one of our most strategic global markets while ensuring marketing is deeply aligned to business priorities across sales, partners, customer success, and corporate functions. This role requires a highly strategic, commercially-minded marketing executive who can balance long-term market development with near-term revenue accountability. Reporting to the VP Marketing, APJ, you will lead cross-functional orchestration across global, APJ, and in-country teams to deliver high-impact, locally relevant programs that drive measurable business outcomes. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Business & Market Leadership Serve as the senior marketing leader and trusted advisor to the Japan leadership team, contributing to country strategy and operating as a key voice in market planning and execution. Own country marketing strategy across reputation, demand, customer engagement, and ecosystem development. Partner closely with country sales leadership to align marketing investments with strategic growth priorities, whitespace opportunities, and account segmentation. Integrated Marketing Strategy Develop and execute Japan’s end-to-end marketing strategy across brand, demand generation, executive engagement, customer marketing, communications, and events. Ensure global and APJ campaigns are effectively localized and activated to maximize impact in-market. Build innovative, high-performing programs tailored to Japan’s unique buyer, cultural, and mar

SLSQ127R32 At Databricks, we empower organizations to make better decisions with data and AI. As an Emerging Account Executive, you'll partner with some of Japan's most innovative and fast-growing companies - helping them unlock the full potential of their data to scale faster and smarter. You will own an Emerging territory, a portfolio of high‑potential, under‑penetrated accounts (often SMBs and Mid-market) that are not yet covered by a dedicated account owner. You are a strategic, growth-minded sales professional who thrives in dynamic environments. You understand how to engage with senior stakeholders, navigate complex organizations, and drive meaningful outcomes. You're comfortable managing both short-term opportunities and multi-threaded, strategic initiatives that expand our footprint and customer impact. You will report to Sr Manager, Sales in Japan. The impact you will have: Develop and execute a territory plan targeting Japan’s emerging market segment - growth-stage organizations with significant data and AI ambitions. Effectively manage a mix of rapid, transactional deals and complex, strategic engagements. Consistently meet and exceed activity, pipeline, and revenue goals through active prospecting and account development. Maintain high standards of operational excellence in Salesforce and Clari, including accurate forecasting, opportunity tracking (MEDDPICC), and detailed account notes. Lead with a customer-first mindset and focus on delivering measurable business value. What we look for: 3+ years of closing experience in SaaS, Cloud, Big Data or AI sales. Proven success exceeding sales KPIs and quotas. Demonstrated ability to acquire new customers and expand existing relationships. (Nice to have) Experience collaborating with partners or engaging in co-selling or partner-led motions within the technology ecosystem. Ability to quickly learn new technical concepts and confidently communicate value propositions. Fluency in Japanese and business-level Engli

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the Role Join Anthropic's Customer Success team as one of the founding members of our Japan Customer Success team as we pioneer the future of enterprise AI adoption. As a Customer Success Manager at Anthropic, you'll be the strategic partner and trusted advisor to our most complex customers across Japan, helping them harness the full potential of all our Claude capabilities: API, Claude for Enterprise, and Claude Code. You'll develop genuine partnerships with customers, gaining a deep understanding of their business objectives, strategic direction, AI vision, and technical needs. You'll draw on both your business acumen and technical expertise to serve as a strategic advisor throughout their journey with us. In partnership with the broader account team, you will help customers identify the right Claude capabilities for their specific business objectives. You'll work closely with them to provide best practices and guidance, and support them as their usage (consumption and seat based) grows and evolves. Your role focuses on helping customers scale their usage effectively, implement change management strategies, optimize use cases, and maximize the value of their investment through expanded use cases across their organization. The insights you gather from your customers will directly inform our research priorities, product development, and go-to-market strategies. That makes you a key voice in shaping how we build and deliver ongoing value as a business. As one of the founding members of our Customer Success team in Japan, you'll help shape how we build the function in-region. That includes establishing regional processes, developi

Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners. You will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). Sales Engineers have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we’d love to meet you! At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Partner with the sales and customer success teams to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Deliver product and technical presentations with broad range of potential and existing clients Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests Help clients try and onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks. Think creatively and help resolve the wide variety of technical challenges that may occur during the overall customer’s life cycle Who You Are: Minimum 2+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring, cloud architecture tools, and modern web development Thrives in a high velocity environment demonstrating experience with juggling a high number of concurrent engagements of varied size and complexity Enjoys collaborating and teaming with others Comfortable and confident in delivering technical

Datadog Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners. You will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POCs). Sales Engineers have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners. Additionally, you will work with various teams to resolve customer concerns, escalate bug issues, and serve as an ambassador for our brand. If you want to join a friendly, passionate team with limitless potential, we’d love to meet you! At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. What You’ll Do: Partner with the sales and customer success teams to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers Continually learn new technology to build competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility Deliver product and technical presentations with broad range of potential and existing clients Have a direct line of communication with the product team to collaborate on feature requests Help clients try and onboard the product and assist when they run into roadblocks. Think creatively and help resolve the wide variety of technical challenges that may occur during the overall customer’s life cycle Who You Are: Minimum 2+ years in Sales Engineering, Solutions Engineering along with either DevOps/SRE, or Platform Engineering Knowledgeable and experienced with DevOps monitoring, cloud architecture tools, and modern web development Thrives in a high velocity environment demonstrating experience with juggling a high number of concurrent engagements of varied size and complexity Enjoys collaborating and teaming with others Comfortable and confident in delivering technical

The opportunity We’re building our reseller channel in Japan from the ground up. We’re looking for a strategic leader to decide where to focus, turn market opportunities into a clear plan, and drive the changes needed to make that plan work. You’ll roll up your sleeves, work across teams to shape our route to market, test ideas, remove barriers to growth, and build a channel that can scale. You’ll have the freedom to define the approach - and the responsibility to adapt it as you learn. Strategy and Leadership Set the strategy for growing our reseller channel in Japan, including which customer segments, partner types, and opportunities to prioritize. Turn the strategy into focused initiatives with clear goals, owners, and measures of success. Assess market potential and performance to decide where to invest, what to change, and when to scale. Design the commercial approach, including the partner proposition, incentives, sales model, and measures of partner success. Lead cross-functional work across sales, product, marketing, operations, and other teams to remove barriers to growth. Build the processes and capabilities needed to take the channel from an early-stage effort to a repeatable business. Share a clear view of progress, risks, and recommendations with senior stakeholders. Build and lead a team as the channel develops. Reseller channel Drive the development and execution of a holistic reseller strategy — from channel partners that drive new seller acquisition. Oversee Partner Managers in end-to-end partnership execution: business development, negotiation, launch, and ongoing management. Determine and prioritize the appropriate mix of partner benefits, incentives, and co-marketing/sales opportunities to secure high-value deals. Advocate for resellers while balancing Square's commercial goals and product roadmap. What you’ll bring 15+ Years of experience developing commercial or go-to-market strategy and delivering measurable growth. Experience in fintech, paym

About the Team The Growth team drives user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments worldwide. We work across the full funnel, from acquisition and activation to retention and monetization, through product experiments, in-product improvements, performance marketing, creative development, and AI-powered workflows. The International Growth team works with regional leaders in priority markets to identify the user needs and product gaps that matter most for adoption, usage, and monetization. We turn country priorities into product roadmaps and growth plans, then partner with engineering, research, design, data science, marketing, finance, policy, and partnerships to test and ship improvements. We combine product strategy with hands-on growth operations. We account for local behavior, competition, and product experience while building shared capabilities such as segmentation, lifecycle journeys, and experimentation systems. We measure what ships, adapt it to the market, and scale approaches that work across markets. About the Role We’re looking for a growth lead in Japan to shape and execute ChatGPT’s growth plans. You’ll partner with the Japan GM to understand local users, identify the biggest growth opportunities, and turn those priorities into product improvements, funnel optimizations, and performance marketing tests. You’ll work across acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Design, Data Science, Partnerships, and Marketing teams to influence priorities and ship measurable impact. The role combines product growth and funnel optimization with performance marketing: connecting audience, message, creative, and channel learnings to better in-product journeys. In this role, you will: Partner with the Japan GM to set a country growth plan and roadmap priorities, with clear hypotheses, owners, dependencies, and measurable outcomes. Use user research, funnel and cohort data, and competitive ins

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. Anthropic is seeking an experienced GTM Recruiter to join our recruiting team. In this role, you'll partner closely with GTM leaders to hire the people who will shape how Anthropic operates, grows, and delivers on its mission. This role requires someone who can assess not just functional expertise, but also alignment with our values and the adaptability required to thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. Responsibilities: Lead end to end recruiting for GTM roles Develop and execute strategic recruiting plans, including competitive mapping, targeted sourcing, and building long-term talent pipelines Build trusted partnerships with GTM leadership to understand business priorities, team structures, ideal candidate profiles, and required competencies across different functions Create exceptional candidate experiences that showcase Anthropic's mission, growth trajectory, and unique growth opportunity for GTM professionals Design and implement scalable recruiting processes that effectively assess functional expertise, business acumen, and cultural alignment Track recruiting metrics and use data to identify bottlenecks, optimize processes, and maintain a high-quality hiring bar Coach hiring managers on recruiting best practices, interview techniques, and strategies for building diverse, high-performing teams You may be a good fit if you: Have 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience with meaningful exposure to GTM functions Are comfortable working in ambiguous environments and help hiring teams build structure and excellent recruiting practices Have strong stakeholder management skills - you can share examples

Req ID: CSQ427R266 Location: Tokyo, Japan At Databricks, we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data and AI problems by utilizing the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA), you will partner with Sales, Solutions Architecture, and Field Engineering to accelerate adoption and growth of the Databricks platform. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers design, implement, scale, and optimize data and AI solutions that deliver measurable business value. This is a technical and customer-facing role focused on architecture, technical strategy, and customer outcomes. You will influence technical execution across complex use cases, guide architectural decisions, and align Databricks, customer, and partner teams from technical win through production and adoption. The Impact You Will Have Define and influence technical execution strategies across complex use cases and multiple workstreams within strategic accounts Serve as a trusted technical advisor to customer technical leads and architects, leading architecture discussions and guiding technical decisions Design secure, governed, and scalable Databricks architectures while balancing performance, cost, reliability, and long-term needs Build and demonstrate working solutions, prototypes, and reusable technical assets that accelerate customer outcomes Anticipate platform maturity and scaling needs and establish best practices for security, governance, and operational excellence Drive adoption and consumption by influencing architecture, unblocking delivery, and connecting technical execution to business outcomes Partner across Databricks, customer, and implementation teams to align resources, manage risks, and accelerate delivery Mentor peers and contribute reusable technical guidance, frameworks, and enablement across the organization What We Look For 5+ years in solutions architecture, solutions engineering, technical consultin