Technical Specialist in Tokyo

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. We share our technical and product expertise with customers via multi-channel technical support, demos, and presentations. You’ll be joining a team and company where you will be challenged, but also will immediately witness your contributions to Datadog. 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: Manage, develop, coach and mentor Premier Support Engineers who respond to client requests, reproduce and troubleshoot issues, and dive into Datadog’s 400+ integrations Act as the owner for your team’s accountability and performance - managing performance reviews, performance plans, and any employee relations issues for your direct reports Partner with Support team senior leadership to oversee team projects and initiatives to improve productivity, process or procedure Collaborate with internal teams and customers on high-priority escalations and act as a resource to resolve escalations from team members as necessary Who You Are: Passionate about people management and/or mentorship with previous experience leading a team, including managing other managers Self-motivated, detail-attentive, and have a desire for continuous learning A critical thinker who defaults to a client-centric approach and uses data to make informed decisions A tinkerer with some programming experience and a basic knowledge of Linux Active contribution to open-source projects (code, bug reports, etc.) and the Engineering Community (Meetups, etc.) Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's ok

Field CTOはDatadogの社内プロダクトエキスパートとして、Technical Solutions（TS）チームを通じて、見込み顧客への提案活動および既存顧客の成功支援を行い、Datadogのグローバルな成長を支えています。 Field CTOは、Product Solutions Architecture（PSA）組織の一員として、技術的な知見をもとにお客様の経営層や意思決定者に対する信頼できるアドバイザーとして活動します。お客様のビジネス目標とDatadogのプロダクト戦略を結びつけ、デジタルトランスフォーメーションの推進と、双方にとっての持続的な成長の実現に貢献します。 Datadogのさらなる事業拡大に伴い、日本市場全体のGo-To-Market（GTM）における技術戦略をリードするField CTOポジションを新設します。本ポジションでは、業界におけるリーダーシップの確立（対外発信・エバンジェリズム）、中長期的な戦略的価値提案の推進、ならびに市場におけるプレゼンスの拡大を担っていただきます。 Datadogでは、オフィスカルチャーを大切にしています。オフィスで築かれる人間関係やコラボレーション、そしてそこから生まれる創造性に価値を置いています。当社はハイブリッドワーク体制を採用しており、Datadogの社員一人ひとりが自分に最適なワークライフバランスを実現できるようにしています。 What You’ll Do: C-Level: CIO／CTO／CEO／CISOレベルの顧客および見込み顧客のエグゼクティブに対し、戦略的なアドバイザーとして、オブザーバビリティの導入プロセス、投資判断、運用定着に至るまでを戦略的に支援する。 GTM: 顧客とのエンゲージメントを通じて、業界特有のトレンドやその影響・可能性を特定し、Product、GTM、BVA、Architectureチームに対してトップ・オブ・ファネル創出に貢献します。Product SAおよびProduct Managementと連携し、業界向けソリューションを共同で創出します。 Leadership: Datadogプラットフォームの価値を体現するとともに、オブザーバビリティおよびセキュリティ分野におけるソートリーダーシップを発揮します。高度なソリューション、業界のベストプラクティス、大規模環境における優れた可視性と管理を提供する当社の取り組みを強調します。 Advisory: ROI（投資対効果）、価値実現、ホワイトスペース分析に関して、Salesリーダーおよび顧客・見込み顧客のエグゼクティブにとって信頼できるアドバイザーとなります。専門とする業界領域において、個別顧客の案件戦略および導入戦略を支援します。 Collaboration: Product Solutions Architecture（PSA）、Sales、Sales Engineering、Marketingと連携し、実務担当者および経済的意思決定者を含む幅広いオーディエンスに対して、質の高い技術的支援を提供する。 Presentations: 戦略的顧客のニーズにDatadogがどのように応えるかを示すため、アーキテクチャおよびデザインに関するエンゲージメントを主導します。また、DatadogのExecutive Briefing Center（EBC）において、著名な顧客や見込み顧客とともに、全体アーキテクチャ、オブザーバビリティのベストプラクティス、業界トレンドに関するエグゼクティブ向けブリーフィングに参加します。 Hiring: Product Solutions ArchitectureおよびField CTOチームにおける優秀な人材の採用活動において、リーダーシップを支援します。 Who You Are 業界経験: エンタープライズアーキテクチャ、または大規模なアプリケーションアーキテクチャ分野で15年以上の豊富な経験を有し、実際のユースケースに基づいてアーキテクチャを設計・適用できる能力を持つこと。加えて、日本市場の顧客におけるオブザーバビリティ領域、クラウド、および技術変革に関する深い知見を有すること。 戦略的思考力: 多様な技術的およびビジネス上の課題に対して、長期的かつ創造的に思考できる能力。 ステークホルダーマネジメント: 大規模エンタープライズ組織において、VP以上およびCレベルの主要ステークホルダーと対話し、影響力を発揮してきた経験。 テクノロジスト: 高い技術力を備えたハンズオン型のリーダーとして、組織内のあらゆる階層と信頼関係を構築できる方。 プレゼンテーション能力: 多数の参加者を前にした顧客向けプレゼンテーションに優れ、複雑な技術的詳細の説明から、エグゼ

We are Datadog's in-house product experts. The Technical Solutions (TS) team enables Datadog's worldwide growth by educating potential clients and ensuring that existing customers are happy and successful. Field CTOs are part of the broader Product Solutions Architecture (PSA) organization, serving as technical multipliers and trusted advisors to our customers' most senior decision makers and key executive stakeholders. They align customer ambitions with Datadog’s technology roadmap, enabling digital transformation while driving sustained growth for both our customers and Datadog. As Datadog continues to scale, we are creating a Field CTO role to lead our GTM technical strategy for the entire Japan region - establishing thought leadership, building the long-term strategic case for Datadog, and expanding our footprint in the market. 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: C-Level : Strategically guide CIO/CTO/CEO/CISO-level customer and prospect executives in rationalizing their adoption journey, investment and operationalizing of observability. GTM : Identifies industry specific trends and their impact and potential during Customers engagements, feeding the top-of-funnel for Product, GTM, BVA and Architecture teams. Co-create industry solutions via collaboration with Product SAs and Product Management. Leadership : Demonstrate Datadog's platform as well as thought leadership in Observability and Security, emphasizing our advanced solutions, industry best practices, and dedication to providing organizations with superior visibility and management of their at scale environments. Advisory : Be a trusted advisor to Sales leaders as well as customer and prospect executives on ROI, value realization and white-space analysis. Assist with opp

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We’re looking for dedicated, experienced, and deeply curious individuals to help solve some of the most complex challenges faced by our customers while building the future of post-AGI support alongside us. In this role, you’ll work directly with customers through support tickets and live calls, troubleshooting high-impact issues and resolving novel, often ambiguous technical problems in one of the fastest-moving environments in technology. As AI adoption rapidly accelerates, the work you do will directly support mission-critical systems being built on OpenAI’s platform, serving as a critical line of defense for customers operating at massive scale. Beyond resolving technical issues, you’ll help define what world-class support looks like in an AGI-driven future. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience, while leveraging automation, agents, and our own AI technology to transform how support operates at scale. This role is based in Tokyo. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. To succeed in this position you must be fully bilingual—fluent in both Korean and English (spoken and written). Please note that your resume must be submitted in English , and the intervie

As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you'll partner with Sales to help customers understand the value of Datadog and how it solves their most important technical and business challenges. You'll lead technical evaluations, deliver compelling demos, and guide customers through the journey from discovery to successful adoption. You'll act as a trusted advisor, bridging business goals with technical solutions, and play a key role in winning new business and expanding existing accounts. 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: Own the sales process in partnership with Account Executives by leading and shaping the technical strategy across opportunities from PG to Closed Won Lead customer discovery to uncover technical challenges, business goals, and success criteria, then translate those needs into tailored Datadog solutions Deliver engaging product demos, technical presentations, and workshops that connect platform capabilities to customer outcomes Project manage technical evaluations (POVs) end-to-end: scoping use cases and requirements, defining success criteria, building a project plan with clear timelines, and holding all participants accountable to the process Identify and cultivate technical champions within customer accounts, empowering them to advocate for Datadog adoption and drive consensus internally Participate actively in structured product and engineering field feedback sessions, serving as the technical voice of the customer to help shape product direction Maintain operational excellence by ensuring activity, deal progress, and customer interactions are accurately documented and up to date in related systems Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Support, and GTM teams to address customer needs and resolve technical blockers Who

About the Team OpenAI’s User Operations team shepherds our customers’ adoption of AI and ensures that our customers' product experience is nothing short of exceptional. We are building the very first post-AGI support team. We resolve complex issues, provide technical guidance, and support customers in maximizing value and adoption from deploying our products. We work closely with Sales, Technical Success, Product, Engineering and others, to deliver the best possible experience to our customers at scale. OpenAI's customers represent a range of diverse backgrounds and maturity, from early-stage startups to established global enterprises. About the Role We’re looking for dedicated, experienced, and deeply curious individuals to help solve some of the most complex challenges faced by our customers while building the future of post-AGI support alongside us. In this role, you’ll work directly with customers through support tickets and live calls, troubleshooting high-impact issues and resolving novel, often ambiguous technical problems in one of the fastest-moving environments in technology. As AI adoption rapidly accelerates, the work you do will directly support mission-critical systems being built on OpenAI’s platform, serving as a critical line of defense for customers operating at massive scale. Beyond resolving technical issues, you’ll help define what world-class support looks like in an AGI-driven future. You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Product, and Operations to improve systems, reduce bugs, and elevate the customer experience, while leveraging automation, agents, and our own AI technology to transform how support operates at scale. This role is based in Tokyo. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. To succeed in this position you must be fully bilingual—fluent in both Japanese and English (spoken and written). Please note that your resume must be submitted in English , and the interv

About the Team The Applied AI Engineering team is responsible for helping developers and enterprises safely and effectively deploy OpenAI technologies in production. We act as trusted technical advisors and thought partners for customers, working side by side with their teams to identify high-value use cases, design practical architectures, and move from prototype to durable deployment. Cybersecurity is one of the most urgent domains where AI can help. Security teams are under pressure to reason across code, logs, infrastructure, tickets, alerts, and vulnerability data faster than ever. As frontier models become more capable, organizations need deep technical guidance on how to evaluate, validate, and safely deploy AI systems in security-critical workflows. About the Role We are looking for a Cybersecurity Applied AI Engineer to partner with customers and help them apply OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to real cybersecurity use cases. You will work with CISOs, security executives, application security leaders, SOC teams, security engineering teams, and hands-on practitioners to identify where AI can create measurable security outcomes. This is a customer-facing technical role for someone who can move fluidly between executive strategy, practitioner-level cyber depth, and hands-on solution design. You will help customers evaluate and deploy workflows such as secure code review, vulnerability triage, threat modeling, remediation, SOC and incident response workflows, detection engineering, cloud security, GRC automation, and security validation. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product, Engineering, Research, and Security to turn customer needs into safe deployment patterns, reusable field assets, and product feedback. This role is based in our Tokyo office. We offer relocation support to new employees. In this role, you will: Deeply embed with strategic customers as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workfl

As a Regional Manager, Sales Engineering, you will lead a team of Sales Engineers and frontline leaders, driving technical execution, operational excellence, and team development across your region. You’ll act as a force multiplier by owning team performance, shaping execution standards, and partnering closely with Sales leadership to influence strategy, improve outcomes, and scale impact beyond individual deals. 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: Lead, coach, and develop a team of Sales Engineers, driving performance, engagement, and long-term career growth through regular feedback and structured development Partner confidently with senior Sales leadership on regional strategy, multi-quarter planning, annual capacity planning, and forecast alignment operating 2-3 quarters ahead to anticipate resourcing needs and business priorities Own in-field execution at a regional level by taking an executive presence role in strategic and high-impact opportunities and providing senior-level stakeholder alignment and technical credibility alongside your team Oversee consistent, high-quality delivery across technical sales cycles in the region, including evaluations, customer engagements, and deal progression Hire and onboard top talent across ICs and manager-level roles, building a high-performing team and accelerating ramp through structured onboarding and enablement Manage regional operations including resource allocation, utilization, KPI tracking, productivity, and skills development to ensure effective coverage across the territory Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Product, Marketing, Enablement, and Support at a senior level to align on regional strategy, GTM execution, and customer experience Drive operational excellence across the

About the team OpenAI’s Enterprise Go-To-Market organization helps the world’s largest companies adopt and scale our AI platform across their business—from ChatGPT Enterprise to our developer platform and APIs. In Japan, we partner with leading organizations across industries including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences, Retail, and Technology to build new AI-powered customer experiences, transform operations, and reimagine how work gets done. As adoption accelerates through pilots, experimentation, and developer-led use cases, the GTM team turns that momentum into durable, enterprise-wide deployments. Sales Development sits at the front of this motion—where technical curiosity becomes executive engagement and OpenAI’s enterprise relationships begin. About the role We are hiring a Sales Development Manager, Japan to lead and develop a team of SDRs supporting our enterprise business in Japan. Reporting into Sales Development leadership, this role will be responsible for coaching and developing a high-performing team focused on generating qualified pipeline and creating strategic opportunities across some of Japan’s largest and most influential organizations. This is a foundational front-line leadership role within OpenAI’s Japan GTM organization. You will help define how we engage prospective customers in the Japanese market, convert product and developer interest into enterprise conversations, and build repeatable outbound and inbound motions that reflect the unique dynamics of enterprise selling in Japan. You will partner closely with Japan Sales leadership, Account Directors, Marketing, Solutions Engineering, Partnerships, and Strategy & Operations, while connecting our Japan go-to-market motion with OpenAI’s broader regional and global strategy. In this role, you will Lead, coach, and develop a team of SDRs supporting Large Enterprise, Strategic Accounts, and key industry verticals across Japan Drive high-quality pipeline generation through outb

About the Team OpenAI’s Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn frontier AI capabilities into safe, reliable, and high-impact production systems. For software engineering organizations, this means helping customers adopt Codex and other OpenAI capabilities across the software development lifecycle—transforming how teams plan, build, test, review, and deliver software. We work directly with engineering leaders and hands-on developers to identify high-value opportunities, design and implement AI-powered development workflows, and scale what works across engineering organizations. We turn lessons from these deployments into better products, reusable architectures, and technical patterns that help developers everywhere get more value from Codex. About the Role As an Applied AI Engineer focused on Codex, you will partner directly with leading engineering organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that transform how software is developed. You will combine deep technical judgment, hands-on engineering, and customer leadership to take ambitious ideas from workflow and use-case selection through prototyping, evaluation, production rollout, and scaled adoption. You will work alongside engineering teams to build advanced AI coding workflows, integrations, automations, and evaluation systems—often using Codex itself as part of your development process. You will help customers make technical decisions involving model behavior, agentic workflows, developer environments, security, reliability, evaluation, and operational readiness, while ensuring deployments translate into measurable improvements in engineering productivity and software delivery. You will work closely with OpenAI Product, Research, Engineering, Security, Sales, and the broader Codex organization, translating real-world deployment experience into high-signal product and model feedback. Success is measured by production systems, sustained developer adoption, and meaningful improvements to how

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. You’ll also collaborate with business partners to support customers’ business transformation and growth. This role is based in Tokyo, Japan. 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: Manage key accounts, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan based on customers’ business priorities and growth opportunities. Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to successful deployment. Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects. Collaborate with business partners to generate opportunities, develop joint proposals, and support deployment, expanding customer value and business opportunities. Own a consumption revenue target. Manage consumption revenue forecasts. Analyze key account

About the Team The GTM Partnerships team is responsible for building a global, best in class, partner ecosystem that makes our customers successful, supports the company's mission of reaching AGI, and impacts the revenue growth of the company. About the Role We are hiring a partner director to operationalize, activate, and scale strategic partner relationships in Japan. This role will focus on driving enablement, coordinating joint solution development, and ensuring commercial activation across the partner lifecycle to accelerate and scale existing signed partnerships. You will be the connective tissue between OpenAI and the partner’s delivery, technical, and sales organizations to ensure the partnership delivers results. This role will report to the Japan Partnerships Lead and be based in Japan. In this role you will: Own the day-to-day relationship with one or more signed partners in Japan, acting as the single point of contact across enablement, solutioning, and GTM execution. Drive and manage onboarding across workstreams including sales training, technical enablement, security and provisioning, and support operations. Ensure partner readiness to deploy and resell OpenAI solutions, through shared project plans, milestone tracking, and joint QBRs. Orchestrate co-developed solutions by collaborating with partners to define use cases, create demo assets, and localize technical documentation. Monitor partner performance , flag risks early, and drive structured remediation or acceleration plans as needed. Coordinate across OpenAI teams including Sales, Solution Engineering, Enablement, Operations, Customer Success, and Marketing to ensure partner needs are met and internal alignment is maintained. Establish operational rhythms such as roadmap briefings, asset distribution, and sales enablement refreshes. Ensure compliance with partnership agreements , including commercial terms, dedicated personnel commitments, and reporting cadences. You might thrive in this role if

About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to build safe artificial general intelligence (AGI) which benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one lab together to accomplish this. In pursuit of this mission, our Go To Market (GTM) team is responsible for helping customers learn how to leverage and deploy our highly capable AI products across their business. The team is made of Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnership professionals that work together to create valuable solutions that will help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the Role Our Sales team has a unique mission to help customers understand the deep impact that highly capable AI models can bring to their business and users. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and value-driven strategy. You’ll be a key driver of opportunities through the entire sales cycle, from pipeline generation to closure. You’ll work with researchers, engineers, and solution strategists to help customers evolve their industry with AI. This role is based in Tokyo, Japan. 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: Manage ~dozen key accounts in the Financial Services Industry, developing and executing strategies for a comprehensive account plan. Lead our enterprise prospects’ journeys from consideration to successful deployment. Partner with solutions and research engineering to build and execute complex customer programs and projects. Own a consumption revenue target. Manage consumption revenue forecasts. Analyze key account metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal and external stakeholders. Closely monitor the industry landscape (people, competitors, partners, etc.) to contribute to product roadmap and other corporate strategies. Collaborate with solutions, marketing, communications, business

About the Team OpenAI’s GTM Partnerships team builds a strategic global partner ecosystem designed to accelerate customer success, support secure AI adoption, and drive growth in support of OpenAI’s mission. We collaborate closely across Sales, Technical Success, Product, Marketing, Operations, and leadership teams to turn strategic partnerships into durable commercial outcomes. Within that ecosystem, AWS is one of OpenAI’s most strategic partners. Our opportunity extends beyond the direct alliance relationship: we aim to enable AWS teams and the surrounding services-partner ecosystem to build, deliver, and scale OpenAI-powered solutions on AWS infrastructure. Success requires close collaboration across AWS Japan alliance and field teams, AWS-focused SI practices, cloud architects, field sellers, delivery leaders, OpenAI’s Japan Partner Director, and OpenAI GTM teams. It requires strong operating discipline, scalable co-sell execution, and the ability to translate a strategic alliance into measurable customer outcomes. About the Role We are hiring a Partner Director to shape and execute OpenAI’s AWS alliance partnership in Japan. This person will own the direct relationship with AWS Japan while mobilizing AWS Japan field teams and the broader services-partner ecosystem around high-value customer opportunities. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role operating through influence in Japan. You will work alongside OpenAI’s Japan Partner Director to develop Japan GTM strategies, drive joint account planning, coordinate AWS-related opportunities, and operationally manage selected cross-functional initiatives. You will build and own the Japan GTM strategy with AWS, translating the alliance into repeatable OpenAI and AWS solutions, field playbooks, governance structures, and co-sell motions that can be adopted across Japan’s customer segments and GTM teams. The right candidate combines alliance leadership with a builder’s mindset and the ability to move comfortably b

Figma is growing our team of passionate creatives and builders on a mission to make design accessible to all. Figma’s platform helps teams bring ideas to life—whether you're brainstorming, creating a prototype, translating designs into code, or iterating with AI. From idea to product, Figma empowers teams to streamline workflows, move faster, and work together in real time from anywhere in the world. If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us! Figma’s Solutions Consulting team is comprised of a group of talented, dynamic, creative, and technical professionals. The team sits within Sales and helps to successfully secure new customers and expand our existing customer base by demonstrating the value of the Figma platform and painting the vision of what is technically possible. We are looking for a Manager, Solutions Consulting to lead our Japan Solution Consulting team. As a cross-functional leader, you will collaborate closely with Sales, Product, Customer Experience, Partners, and Support teams to drive consultative strategies that unlock customer value and accelerate growth. With Figma rapidly innovating, this position offers the exciting challenge of scaling the Solutions Consulting function and contributing to the evolution of our enterprise go-to-market motion. What you’ll do at Figma: Lead, hire, and motivate a diverse team of Solutions Consultants Participate in customer and prospect meetings alongside your team Assist in continual training and development, including mentorship, hiring, and career growth Work cross-functionally to help define and execute our technical pre- and post-sales strategy Build and implement programs that help scale our Solutions Consultants and drive greater impact for our customers We'd love to hear from you if you have: 3+ years as a frontline manager leading Solutions Consultants or Sales Engineers, with direct accountability for team performance, coaching, and feedback. 8+ yea