Ai Native Startup Manager in Japan

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role Notion is reimagining how customers adopt, expand, and realize value from software in an AI-native world. As an Outcomes Architect, you’ll be the build-beside partner who helps customers turn AI ambition into working systems inside Notion. You’ll own workflow adoption, value delivery, and renewal outcomes for a book of named accounts, with a focus on customers that are flat, at-risk, or need a stronger path to measurable impact. You’ll partner closely with Solutions Consultants on account strategy, expansion qualification, and planning, while directly shaping outcomes that strengthen customer partnerships and contribute to predictable revenue. If you’re someone who loves helping customers build workflows that solve real business problems—and you want to work at the intersection of AI, productivity, customer value, and revenue impact—this is the role. What You'll Achieve Drive workflow adoption and value realization for a book of named accounts ensuring your customers know how to deliver outcomes with Notion Contribute directly to NRR with predictable renewal and expansion pipeline and proactive product adoption for you

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role As a Forward Deployed Architect on Notion’s Services team, you will help customers turn AI ambition into operational reality and unlock the full potential of our platform. You will partner directly with customers to design, build, and launch AI-native workflows that drive adoption, usage, and measurable business outcomes. This role sits at the center of Notion’s workflow-led GTM motion. You will partner directly with customers to understand their business goals, operating processes, technical environment, governance needs, and adoption barriers, then translate that context into scalable Notion architectures that drive measurable value. You will be hands-on across discovery, solution design, workspace architecture, workflow build, AI implementation, launch planning, adoption and handoff. You will work deeply with customers to define what Notion should own, where it should integrate with existing systems, and how Notion can become a durable operating layer for their teams. The best candidates combine strong consultative discovery, systems thinking, technical fluency, AI-native workflow design, implementation judgment and

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. We are looking for a Localisation Engineer who can join our efforts in continuing to lead the industry in global localization and product translation in Tokyo, Japan. Responsibilities: Innovate localization strategy and lead complex technical projects across their entire lifecycle to continuously optimize processes. Design, build, and maintain a full-stack AI translation platform, including scalable web applications, backend services, and data pipelines. Integrate LLMs into core workflows to drive process automation, enhance content reuse, and support intelligent quality assurance. Establish comprehensive QA frameworks and provide ongoing technical support to ensure the robustness, reliability, and observability of localization pipelines. Manage vendor relationships, overseeing budget planning and ensuring high translation quality standards. Be excellent and think big in building the solution-based approach to offer the best localization at Snowflake. Required Qualifications: Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience. Strong fundamental computer science skills. Knowledge of algorithms and data structures. 5+ years of experience in software development working with one or more of the following languages:

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Senior Cloud Support Engineer (CSE) Job Description Snowflake seeks a Senior Cloud Support Engineers who combine technical expertise, customer empathy, and an AI-first mindset . You'll leverage and refine AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting, improve knowledge bases, and reduce time to resolution—safely and responsibly. Experience in 24x7 technical support, escalation handling, on-call rotations, and incident management is ideal. Key Responsibilities: As a Senior Cloud Support Engineer , you manage customer cases and are accountable for accelerating their time-to-resolution, ensuring platform stability, and driving a world-class support experience. Operating as a full-stack technical support resource, this role blends deep hands-on troubleshooting with the customer empathy and communication skills of a trusted advisor. Customer Value and Incident Ownership Own the Customer Experience: Manage customer issues from initial triage through resolution and follow-up, ensuring clear communication and timely updates. Deliver Support Value with AI: Leverage AI assistants and diagnostics to accelerate triage and root-cause analysis while maintaining accuracy and safety standards. Outcome-Based Support: Focus on business impact, ensuring resolutions fix issues, reduce recurrence, and

At Snowflake, we are powering the era of the agentic enterprise. To usher in this new era, we seek AI-native thinkers across every function who are energized by the opportunity to reinvent how they work. You don’t just use tools; you possess an innate curiosity, treating AI as a high-trust collaborator that is core to how you solve problems and accelerate your impact. We look for low-ego individuals who thrive in dynamic and fast-moving environments and move with an experimental mindset — who rapidly test emerging capabilities to discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results. At Snowflake, your role isn't just to execute a function, but to help redefine the future of how work gets done. Snowflake について Snowflakeは、エージェント型エンタープライズの時代を切り拓いています。この新しい時代に向けて、あらゆる職種において、AIネイティブな思考を持ち、働き方を革新することに情熱を燃やす人材を求めています。単にツールを使うだけでなく、AIを信頼できるパートナーとして捉え、問題解決と成果の加速に不可欠な存在として活用する、生来の好奇心を持つ人材を求めています。変化の激しい環境で活躍し、実験的な思考を持ち、新たな機能を迅速にテストして、よりシンプルで強力な成果を生み出す方法を見出す、謙虚さと積極性を兼ね備えた方を求めています。Snowflakeでは、単に業務を遂行するだけでなく、働き方の未来を再定義する役割を担います。 Services Delivery チームのミッション 日本の Services Delivery (旧称: Professional Services) チームは、お客様に Snowflake を最大限かつ最適に活用いただくために、テクニカルデリバリーを担うテクニカルアーキテクト (Technical Architect) を募集しています。このロールでは、特定のビジネス問題と Snowflake のソリューションを結びつけ、その関連性とビジョンをさまざまな技術および経営層のオーディエンスに伝える洞察力、および実装を遂行する能力が求められています。 私たちは、データプラットフォームを有しているお客様のさまざまな課題を解決し、変革への情熱を持ち、絶えず進化するデータとアナリティクスの技術について最新情報を把握し、お客様をリードしていける人材を求めています。 Your impact: Snowflake のあらゆる側面における技術的な専門家として活動します。 お客様自身で Snowflake の機能を正しく理解し更に拡張していただけるよう、ナレッジの共有を含めベストプラクティスに沿って Snowflake をデプロイします。 顧客と直接手を動かしながら、Snowflake テクノロジーの実装に関するベストプラクティスを実証し、伝えます。 競合他社や補完的な技術やベンダーについての深い理解を持ち、それらとの関係における Snowflake のポジショニングを適切に示します。 システムインテグレータのコンサルタントと協力して、顧客環境で Snowflake を成功裏に位置付けて展開するための深い技術レベルで作業します。 顧客固有の技術的課題に対する解決策・ガイダンスを提供します。 チームメンバーの専門知識の向上・知識共有をサポートします。 製品管理、エンジニアリング、マーケティングと連携して、Snowflake の製品とマーケティングを継続的に改善します。 Who you are: ポストセールス（テクニカルデリバリー）における技術的な顧客対応経験 5〜8年 顧客のニーズを的確にとらえ、自らプロジェクトの進め方を提案・推進できる能力 技術者層・経営層を問わず、優れたプレゼンテーションやデモを行える能力 ET

About the Team The AI Architect team partners with organizations to turn OpenAI's most capable models into meaningful, real-world impact. We work with customers across industries and digital-native businesses to identify where AI can create value, design secure and scalable solutions, and help those solutions move from early exploration into sustained production adoption. The team brings together technical strategy, customer partnership, and practical deployment expertise, working closely with Sales, Product, Engineering, Research, and specialist delivery teams. About the Role As an AI Architect, you will be the senior technical owner for a named portfolio of customers and the primary technical counterpart to their leadership teams. You will act as the “CTO of your book of business”, shaping each customer's AI strategy and guiding their journey from pre-sales discovery and solution evaluation through deployment, adoption, and measurable business impact. You will own the technical account plan across ChatGPT Enterprise, the OpenAI API, Codex, and other agentic AI solutions. In partnership with the Account Director, you will translate business priorities into a focused use-case portfolio, an actionable adoption roadmap, and a clear path to durable customer value and growth. The Account Director owns commercial strategy; you own the technical strategy, customer journey, and path to production value. You will remain accountable for the technical outcome while bringing in the right specialists across deployment, implementation, enablement, security, product, and partners to provide deeper expertise and execute work where needed. This role calls for strong industry fluency, sound architectural judgment, and the ability to move confidently between executive strategy and hands-on technical conversations. In this role, you will: Serve as the primary technical advisor and long-term technical relationship owner for a named portfolio of existing customers and pre-sales prospect

About Sayari: Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. The Sayari Commercial World Model resolves 11.7B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions forming the ground truth of global commerce. A Judgment Ontology, encoding over a decade of investigative tradecraft, and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration platform, deliver AI that reasons like an expert analyst, shows its work, and traces every finding to its source. Trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, HM Revenue & Customs, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. POSITION SUMMARY We are looking for a seasoned Enterprise Account Executive and business development professional with a proven history of managing enterprise commercial relationships. This position will own a diverse book of business comprising major commercial accounts, with a mandate to drive product adoption, account renewals, and revenue expansion within the Japan territory. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic Account Planning: Develop a deep understanding of client mission sets, map account whitespace, and develop strategic account plans to grow revenue through upsell and cross-sale activities. Pipeline & Forecast Management: Maintain accurate and up-to-date Salesforce data for your territory and provide reliable forecast information to upper management. Customer Advocacy: Drive referral sales and customer references to support net-new sales activities. Market Intelligence: Stay abreast of competitive intelligence and provide actionable feedback to management. Ad-hoc Duties: Perform other related duties as assigned. SKILLS & EXPERIENCE Required: Fluency in Japanese: Must be a native or fluent Japanese speaker with superior business-level written and verbal communic

About Sayari: Sayari is the judgment infrastructure for trustworthy AI in economic security and commercial risk. The Sayari Commercial World Model resolves 11.7B+ primary-source records from 250+ jurisdictions forming the ground truth of global commerce. A Judgment Ontology, encoding over a decade of investigative tradecraft, and Superconductor, an agentic orchestration platform, deliver AI that reasons like an expert analyst, shows its work, and traces every finding to its source. Trusted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, HM Revenue & Customs, and Fortune 500 enterprises, Sayari is used by thousands of professionals across 35+ countries to secure supply chains and dismantle illicit networks. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in London, Singapore, Tokyo, and Tel Aviv. POSITION SUMMARY We are looking for a seasoned sales and business development professional with a proven history of managing enterprise commercial relationships. This position will own a diverse book of business comprising major commercial accounts, with a mandate to drive product adoption, account renewals, and revenue expansion within the Japan territory. JOB RESPONSIBILITIES Strategic Account Planning: Develop a deep understanding of client mission sets, map account whitespace, and develop strategic account plans to grow revenue through upsell and cross-sale activities. Pipeline & Forecast Management: Maintain accurate and up-to-date Salesforce data for your territory and provide reliable forecast information to upper management. Customer Advocacy: Drive referral sales and customer references to support net-new sales activities. Market Intelligence: Stay abreast of competitive intelligence and provide actionable feedback to management. Ad-hoc Duties: Perform other related duties as assigned. SKILLS & EXPERIENCE Required: Fluency in Japanese: Must be a native or fluent Japanese speaker with superior business-level written and verbal communication skills. 8+ years

Our Recruitment Team & Our Values Guidepoint’s Recruitment team is an integral part of a company that prides itself on identifying the most qualified person for the job. Our team focuses on maintaining integrity and promoting diversity, highlighting our dedication to creating an environment where every candidate is treated equitably, regardless of their background. By utilizing innovative sourcing techniques, attending campus events, and expanding our brand presence, we attract and hire top talent from all over the world. The team consists of 35+ high-performing individuals from various backgrounds who work across 3 continents and 9 countries to make impactful hires for every department at Guidepoint. Your Role We are seeking a highly skilled and strategic Senior Recruiter to manage and drive end-to-end hiring for our Tokyo office. This individual will play a critical role in building our talent pipeline, elevating our employer brand, and ensuring we attract, assess, and hire top-tier talent. A Day in Your New Role: Own full-cycle recruitment for our Japan hirings across different departments, including sourcing, direct candidate outreach, interviewing, and offer management Develop and execute recruitment strategies aligned with business goals Build and maintain relationships with hiring managers across multiple departments Partner with hiring managers to forecast hiring needs, improve quality of hire, and drive a collaborative, consistent hiring process Implement data-driven recruitment practices and track key metrics (time to hire, offer acceptance rate, quality of hire, etc.) Collaborate with the Global TA team to standardize processes and share best practices across regions What You Have: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or related field 2 to 3+ years of experience in full-cycle recruiting, in-house or agency Native fluency in Japanese Business level proficiency in English Strong

Datadog is the global leader in observability and security for cloud applications. Our SaaS platform integrates infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, log management, digital experience monitoring, cloud security, and AI-powered observability to help organisations accelerate digital transformation and operate at scale. As organizations across Japan continue to modernize their technology stacks and embrace cloud-native architectures, Datadog is uniquely positioned to help customers achieve greater visibility, reliability, security, and business performance. The Opportunity Following significant investment in Japan by Datadog, we’re now seeking a senior executive to lead the next phase of growth and scale the business rapidly. This executive will be responsible for defining and executing Datadog's strategy in Japan, driving sustainable, predictable revenue growth, strengthening customer and partner relationships, developing high-performing teams, and firmly establishing Datadog as the market leader for Japan. Reporting to senior APJ leadership, the Country Leader will serve as the executive face of Datadog in Japan and will work cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Partnerships, Solutions Engineering, Product, and Corporate functions to accelerate market penetration and customer success. At Datadog, we work hard to maintain an excellent culture of trust, high standards, and great outcomes for customers, partners and employees About the Role Datadog is seeking an experienced and respected country executive to serve as Country Manager, Japan. As the most senior leader in the market, you will be responsible for owning Japan’s overall business health across acquisition, usage, retention, ecosystem, culture, and cross-functional execution. The Country Manager owns the country plan and operating cadence, ensuring effective direct management of all three sales segments (Enterprise, Mid Market, Commercial); and cross-

Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role We’re looking for an experienced Localization Project Manager — Japan Training Quality to support localization for Customer Education, helping ensure Notion training content feels accurate, clear, culturally relevant, and ready to use for learners across the globe. You’ll work at the intersection of localization quality, training implementation, and program management , collaborating with Localization, Partner Enablement, Customer Education, vendors, and language specialists. You’ll help turn translation feedback, learner experience issues, and regional quality needs into practical improvements across training content, quizzes, LMS setup, and repeatable localization workflows. The ideal candidate combines native-level Japanese language expertise with a deep understanding of what effective education looks like in the Japanese market. What You'll Achieve Own and apply Japanese localization QA standards across training content, including checking for accuracy, clarity, tone, terminology, and cultural nuance Support development of glossaries, style guides, QA checklists, review processes, and localization assets Become a g

GitLab is the intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps. GitLab enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, reduce security and compliance risk, and accelerate digital transformation. More than 50 million registered users and more than 50% of the Fortune 100* trust GitLab to ship better, more secure software faster. The same principles built into our products are reflected in how our team works: we embrace AI as a core productivity multiplier, with all team members expected to incorporate AI into their daily workflows to drive efficiency, innovation, and impact. GitLab is where careers accelerate, innovation flourishes, and every voice is valued. Our high-performance culture is driven by our values and continuous knowledge exchange, enabling our team members to reach their full potential while collaborating with industry leaders to solve complex problems. Co-create the future with us as we build technology that transforms how the world develops software. * Fortune 500® is a registered trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, used under license. Claim based on GitLab data. Fortune 100 refers to the top 20% ranked companies in the 2025 Fortune 500 list, published in June 2025. Fortune and Fortune Media IP Limited are not affiliated with, and do not endorse products or services of GitLab. An overview of this role As a strategic Territory Sales Manager for Japan, you will own and grow your Digital Native and Retail territory with GitLab’s enterprise relationships in the Japan market. You’ll help Enterprise organizations realize the full value of GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform by leading the entire sales cycle, from prospecting and qualification through rollout and long-term adoption. Reporting to an Area Sales Manager or Regional Director, you’ll use a consultative approach to understand complex customer needs, guide them through evaluation, and coordinate pre- and post-sales resources to ensure succe

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 new business 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. 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'll: Build and manage a pipeline of new business 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 Own a consumption revenue target Analyze opportunity metrics to create reports and provide insights to internal 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 operations, people operations, finance, product management, and engineering Support the recruitment and onboarding of other te

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

Sr Product Owner, SMART MFG & AI — Hiroshima - Fab 15, Japan. Apply via Workday.