About Flexport: At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year. The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us. The Opportunity: Flexport is insourcing operations in Japan — one of the world's most quality-driven and relationship-led freight markets. To stand up our in-house Tokyo operations team, we are seeking a Senior Operations Developer: a deeply experienced freight forwarding operator who will help us build the local team, establish the right vendor relationships, and accelerate the velocity of our insourcing initiative. Japan is a market where seniority and trust take precedence in business dealings, and where local relationships with carriers, CFS providers, and drayage partners are difficult and slow to build from the outside. As Senior Operations Developer, you will use your existing network and operational expertise to dramatically shorten that ramp time — laying the foundation for a Tokyo operations function that supports a projected ~150 FCL, ~30 LCL, and ~44 Air shipments per month by year-end 2026. You will: Establish and strengthen Flexport's relationships and operating arrangements with key local vendors in Japan, including CFS, drayage providers, ocean carriers, and customs partners. Lead the sourcing, screening, and hiring of the local Tokyo operations tea
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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 Senior Professional Services Engineer at GitLab, you'll work directly with customers to deliver installation, migration, training, and advisory services that help them adopt GitLab successfully. You'll lead engagements from single-node Omnibus installs to large reference architectures built with infrastructure as code (IaC) and configuration as code. You'll also guide migrations from other systems to GitLab SaaS or self-managed deployments, and help customers make practical decisions that improve reliability, security, and day-to-day workflows. In this role, you'll work closely with customers and Git
We are a global team of innovators and pioneers dedicated to shaping the future of observability. At New Relic, we build an intelligent platform that empowers companies to thrive in an AI-first world by giving them unparalleled insight into their complex systems. As we continue to expand our global footprint, we're looking for passionate people to join our mission. If you're ready to help the world's best companies optimize their digital applications, we invite you to explore a career with us! Your Opportunity We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Associate HRBP to join our team in Tokyo. In this role, you will be responsible for the day-to-day HR operations and provide essential support across the entire employee lifecycle. You will work closely with the local management team to ensure a positive work environment while maintaining compliance with Japanese labor standards. This role is critical in ensuring a positive employee experience and supporting our growth in the Japanese market. Beyond compliance, you will act as a cultural bridge and a dedicated local resource, ensuring our Tokyo team feels connected to our global mission while fostering a collaborative and effective team environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an HR professional looking to grow their career in a dynamic, international environment. Key Responsibilities Performance Management Partners with HRBP to advise managers and employees on all aspects of the New Relic performance management process both informal and formal. Provides guidance to the business on the appropriate solutions while taking into account New Relic’s policies as well as local laws and regulations. Support on the content of written and verbal informal performance feedback, coaching plans, and/or behavioral/formal improvement plans Employee Relations (ER) Conducts ER investigations as a lead and/or support aligned with New Relic’s policies as well as local laws and regulations. Re
Our Channels & Alliances Team’s charter builds and activates a strategic, differentiated and high-impact partner ecosystem for our best-of-breed multi-cloud monitoring product, one partner at a time. As a Senior Partner Manager, you will recruit and develop channel partners that drive new customer adoption and revenue, including Regional and Global Systems Integrators, Managed Service Providers, and Value Added Resellers. 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: Identify and recruit new strategic channel partners to drive revenue growth Enable and activate existing partners through training, planning and joint selling activities Coordinate the technical and marketing aspects of integrated partnership launches Host regular business reviews with partners to drive accountability and report on success metrics Work hand-in-hand with Datadog’s regional enterprise and commercial sales organizations Generate partner-sourced net-new sales pipeline and revenue Who You Are: Experienced in 7+ years of partner-facing, quota-carrying business development, strategic alliances, or channel sales at a cloud services or software as a service organization Proven in driving sales opportunities from lead generation to closure, effectively negotiating agreements and building long-lasting partnerships Able to quickly comprehend technical concepts and architectural scenarios, and explain them to others verbally and in writing Proficiency in managing premier Cloud MSP partners will be advantageous Willing to travel 20-30% of the time Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage yo
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! As a Technical Account Manager (TAM), you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to some of Figma’s largest enterprise customers. You will help organizations successfully adopt, integrate, and scale Figma across complex technical environments. This role sits at the intersection of customer success, enterprise architecture, and developer workflows. You will work closely with customer enablement, sales, and product teams to guide customers through sophisticated implementations involving identity systems, APIs, integrations, governance, and extensibility. Your goal is to reduce technical risk, accelerate adoption, and ensure customers are set up for long-term success. This is a full-time position based in our Tokyo hub; professional fluency in both English and Japanese is required for success. What you’ll do at Figma: Serve as a strategic technical advisor for enterprise customers, helping them adopt and scale Figma in alignment with their business and technical goals Lead structured technical engagements that assess customers’ current environments, identify risks or gaps, and provide clear, prescriptive guidance for successful implementation Guide customers through enterprise API usage and system integrations, helping them extend Figma’s capabilities within their broader technology ecosystems Partner with developer teams to improve design-to-code workflows, including Dev Mode adoption, extensibility initiatives and other emerging platform capabilities (Code to Canvas) Deliver technical workshop
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
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 is looking for a Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales to join our dynamic team of creatives, engineers, marketing wizards, and brilliant business folks. You aren’t the typical sales leader, and we aren’t the typical design tool company. At Figma, we think outside the box, lift constraints that block our imagination everyday, and we expect you to do the same. With this role you’ll get in at the ground floor in a fast growing sales org. You’ll consult with our existing customer base and potential customers in driving meaningful relationships that add value to the customer experience and revenue to our bottom line. Figma is growing and moving fast. Our next team member will have an agile, dynamic mindset, be comfortable embracing change, a true team-player, and love working with our growing footprint of Fortune 1000 customers. You won’t be alone! Figma has an incredible team and you’ll work closely with other groups including Support, Design, Engineering, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and Community. As Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales, you will lead a team of Account Executives responsible for continuing the growth of our Enterprise products. You will report directly to our Country Manager, Japan. This is a full time role that can be held from our Tokyo hub. What you’ll do at Figma: Lead a team of motivated and diverse individuals to foster an environment of success Participate in customer and prospect meetings Assist in continual training and development, including mentorship, hirin
Role Description You will act as the primary regional business partner for sales executives, supporting sales planning, territory and quota execution, forecast interpretation, operational improvements, and translation of strategic priorities into clear execution plans. You’ll drive process clarity, pipeline health, forecasting hygiene, and cross-functional governance, using AI and automation-enabled workflows to reduce manual reporting effort while maintaining strong human judgment over business recommendations. Drive operational excellence in account segmentation, territory planning, quota planning and execution, building the frameworks and analyses that guide how we assign and manage books of business . Act as the strategic business partner to Sales leadership, helping shape regional go-to-market strategy and execution across two distinct sales organizations. Drive operational excellence by improving forecasting, pipeline health, sales planning, and execution while balancing the unique commercial priorities, growth opportunities, and operating models of each region. As a member of the APJ Leadership Team, help define and execute the regional GTM strategy, driving operational excellence and sustainable growth across the APJ region. Drive forecasting accuracy, pipeline health, and business performance through executive-ready insights, standardized operating rhythms, and continuous improvement of data quality and reporting. Own and continuously improve the Run-the-Business (RTB) operating cadence - including forecast reviews, pipeline inspections, business reviews, and executive reporting - to improve operational rigor and decision-making. Lead cross-functional initiatives with teams, including Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Legal, HR and Product to drive alignment and support decision-making. Communicate complex business insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders through concise, data-driven presentations and business reviews. Responsibilities Ow
Who we are About Stripe Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career. About The Team A Stripe Commercial (Mid-Market) Account Executive partners with high-growth, under-penetrated mid-market businesses to help them scale and modernize their financial infrastructure. These companies—often tech-forward, founder-led, and rapidly scaling—represent Stripe's next generation of breakout users. Stripe Commercial AEs are responsible for both acquiring new users and expanding existing relationships. They guide companies through the full sales lifecycle, uncovering pain points, aligning on solutions across the Stripe product suite, and driving long-term value. Commercial AEs serve as strategic advisors, helping users unlock new revenue, streamline operations, and launch ambitious new products on top of the Stripe platform. What you’ll do Commercial AEs own a book of high-potential accounts—some already using Stripe, others still evaluating. They operate with a dual motion—hunting for new growth opportunities and farming existing relationships for deeper adoption and expansion. They work cross-functionally with Solutions, Product, Post-Sales, and Sales Ops to craft tailored strategies and execute at high velocity. Responsibilities Identify high-potential, fast-growing eCommerce platforms for a full-stack Stripe implementation, from payments to Connect Lead a product and pricing workshop with an existing user to introduce Radar and optimize their fraud stack Develop and execute an outbound play to target a new vertical in their region or
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
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 Engineer on Notion’s Services team, you will lead the hands on technical delivery of our most complex customer engagements. You will design, build, and deploy production ready solutions that help enterprise customers integrate Notion as the operating layer for their business. You’ll embed with enterprise customers to design and build solutions that integrate Notion deeply into their technical and operational environments. This includes writing and maintaining custom code, designing and deploying production-grade custom agents and AI workflows with MCP, Agent APIs, and Notion’s automation and execution infrastructure, building data pipelines and resolving complex challenges around scale, permissions, and governance. You’ll embed with enterprise customers to design and build solutions that integrate Notion deeply into their technical and operational environments. This is a customer-facing engineering role for someone who is comfortable writing code, debugging technical issues, explaining tradeoffs to stakeholders, and turning ambiguous customer problems into scalable technical solutions. Your work w
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 a Head of Enterprise Segment, Japan to lead Notion's Enterprise GTM motion in Japan as we evolve how we sell, build, and deliver outcomes for our largest customers. This is a senior second-line leadership role, leading leaders and teams across the Enterprise segment, with accountability for new logo acquisition, expansion, renewals, and the quality of execution that produces durable customer outcomes. This person will play an integral role in scaling Notion's evolving GTM motion in Japan. You'll help define what great looks like for the Enterprise segment: how teams identify the right accounts, create urgency with executives, diagnose workflows, run compelling first and second meetings, deliver live builds and value narratives, and hand customers off into adoption with clarity. This is not a traditional pipeline-management role. The best leaders in this motion are coaches first: they can inspect the quality of a customer conversation, watch a live build or deal review, and tell a manager or IC exactly what to change. As part of the Japan GTM leadership team, you'll be instrumental in helping define o
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 a motivated Sales team leader with an entrepreneurial and building spirit to join our Commercial Sales team. This person will play an integral role in helping lead our growth efforts across Japan. We need someone with an entrepreneurial and builder spirit, someone who enjoys coaching sales reps to be the best they can be, someone who is data-driven and experienced in managing a high-velocity sales pipeline. As an early member of the team, you'll be instrumental in helping define our sales motion, meaningfully shape our future product, and drive business revenue all while having a blast doing it! What You'll Achieve Lead a team of Commercial Account Executives who handles full cycle sales activities, including: prospecting/building pipeline, developing new potential accounts, expanding existing customers, and renewing an install base Own the strategy of your team’s territory, including how the team maximizes the revenue it is generating and retaining Own the execution of your team’s strategy, including the team forecast and pipeline generation Work with cross functional partners (Sales, Channel, Custom
WHAT IS BOX? Box(NYSE: BOX)はインテリジェントコンテンツ管理(ICM)プラットフォームのリーディングカンパニーです。Boxのプラットフォームは、企業のコラボレーション促進や、コンテンツのライフサイクル全体の管理、重要なコンテンツの保護、そしてエンタープライズAIによるビジネスワークフローの変革を実現することを目指しています。2005年に米国で設立され、JLL、モルガン・スタンレーなどを含む大手グローバル企業や、日本では約19,000社および日経225の76%の企業の業務効率化を支援しています。 Boxは、カリフォルニア州レッドウッドシティーに本社を置き、米国、ヨーロッパ、アジアに拠点を持っています。株式会社Box Japanは2013年に設立された日本法人です。 Boxでは、重要なコンテンツを扱うプラットフォームをさらに推進し、お客様の働き方に大きな変革を提供する、またとない機会があります。コンテンツは私達の業務の中心にあります。契約書、請求書、社員情報、財務情報、製品仕様、マーケティング資産などの部署間に跨る重要なビジネス・プロセスに含まれる数十億ものファイルや情報が日々流れています。私達のミッションは、コンテンツ管理にインテリジェンスをもたらし、お客様がデジタル・トランスフォーメーションを実現するお手伝いをさせていただくことです。このAIと膨大な業務コンテンツの融合による、大規模な働き方の変革期に、そのビジネスの最前線に貢献することが、Boxではできます。 WHY BOX NEEDS YOU 日本におけるBoxのビジネスは、100%パートナーを通じて展開されています。パートナー営業部の戦略と実行が、Box Japanの成長に直結する環境です。 Box Japanは現在、既存ビジネスが成長している今だからこそ、次の成長に向けてAX時代のパートナービジネスのあり方を進化させようとしています。AIの普及によって市場や競争環境、パートナーの収益機会が変化する中、従来の成功パターンを踏襲するだけでは十分ではありません。Box、一次店、二次店、End Userのそれぞれに価値が還元される、持続的で再現性のあるGo-to-Marketを設計する必要があります。 このポジションでは、Box Japanにとって戦略的重要性の高い一次店を中心に2〜3社を担当し、経営層や事業責任者とともに成長戦略を描きます。数字から課題を見つけ、パートナー社内の複数組織とBoxの各部門を動かし、新たなPipelineと売上を生み出してください。Partner Planの策定からGTM、KPI管理、改善提案まで一貫して担うため、既存の仕組みを運用するより、自ら仕組みをつくり、担当企業を通じて市場を動かすことに面白さを感じる方が経験を発揮できるポジションです。 WHAT YOU'LL DO · 戦略的重要性の高い一次店2〜3社を担当し、売上・Pipeline・KPIから逆算した年間・四半期のPartner Business PlanおよびGTM戦略を共同策定・実行する · パートナーの経営層、事業責任者、主管部門、営業・技術部門、地域組織との定例会議やBusiness Reviewを設計・運営し、合意した施策を実行につなげる · Vendor、一次店、二次店、End Userの商流と利益構造を分析し、Deal Registration、Margin、Partner Programを含む販売モデルや協業プロセスを改善する · Salesforceなどを活用してPipeline、案件登録数、Win Rate、平均単価、Lead Timeなどを可視化し、課題特定、優先順位付け、改善アクションまでオーナーシップを持つ · パートナー経由の新規案件創出と既存顧客の継続・拡張に向け、Enablement、トレーニング、セミナー、共同営業施策を企画・実行し、成果を検証する · Direct Sales、Marketing、SE、Customer Success、Operations、Executiveと連携し、担当パートナーを通じた市場開拓を推進する · 
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