Partner Strategy And Operations Lead in Japan

Overview: Guidepoint’s Business Development teams are passionate about expanding our reach with both new and existing clients. We support all Guidepoint’s service offerings, helping to build relationships and communicate how Guidepoint helps clients stay informed and make better business decisions. Our teams are motivated to provide custom offerings designed to help every potential client make the most of their partnership with Guidepoint. The Tokyo team is looking for a Business Development Associate to further develop our business with major Corporations within the region . The Associate will be responsible for assisting in building a pipeline of prospects across various industries. This is an exciting opportunity for a self-starter who wants to learn more about the Corporate sector and make a significant contribution to our business model. What You’ll Do: Conduct outbound prospecting to qualify new business leads and help source new business opportunities Partner with senior sales team members schedule meetings with new prospects, set up meetings with existing strategic accounts to identify growth and cross selling opportunities, and manage client feedback calls. Meet designated prospecting and meeting targets through cold calling and other lead generation efforts. Assist in the development of marketing materials and client presentations. Develop a working knowledge of the primary research methods, the competitor landscape, and the institutional investment industry investment process and investment strategies. What You Have: High level of fluency in Japanese and English. Bachelor's degree from a tertiary institution Broad base knowledge of the sales process from lead generation to relationship management. Excellent communicator capable of handling high-profile clients Demonstrated ability to work in a team atmosphere. Desire to work in a sales/ lead generation role that is KPI and metrics-driven. A desire to work in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment. Wha

Role Description As a Business Development Representative for Japan , you will support Dropbox’s Japan Sales organization by generating qualified pipeline, engaging target accounts, and helping Account Executives create new enterprise opportunities across Dropbox Business Enterprise, Dropbox Protect and AI solutions . You will play a crucial role in areas such as outbound prospecting, account research, stakeholder mapping, inbound qualification, event follow-up, and partner-supported pipeline generation. You will work closely with Account Executives to identify relevant business challenges, engage the right personas, and create clear handoffs that help move qualified opportunities into the sales cycle. This role is ideal for someone who is curious, resilient, highly organized, and motivated by creating opportunity. You will gain exposure to enterprise sales cycles, AI-enabled workplace transformation, content collaboration, security and governance conversations, and senior sales stakeholders. This is a strong development opportunity for someone looking to grow into a future Account Executive role . Responsibilities Generate qualified pipeline for Japan Account Executives through outbound prospecting, account research, personalized email, phone outreach, social selling, events, and partner motions. Follow up promptly with attendees from Dropbox-hosted seminars, webinars and other events while their interest is still fresh improving conversion from MQLs to sales-qualified opportunities. Identify and engage new buying centers within target and existing accounts, including IT, Security, Compliance, Operations, Procurement, and Line-of-Business stakeholders. Research target accounts to understand business priorities, trigger events, pain points, and relevant Dropbox use cases across Dropbox Business Enterprise, Dash, and Replay. Partner with Account Executives to build account maps, prioritize outreach, support territory planning, and create multi-threaded e

About the Team OpenAI’s Applied AI Engineering team helps organizations turn frontier AI capabilities into safe, reliable, and high-impact production systems. We work with customer executives, product and engineering teams, security leaders, and transformation teams to identify valuable opportunities, accelerate technical implementation, and scale what works. Enterprise deployments are defined by complexity rather than any one industry: existing architectures, diverse data environments, security and governance requirements, multiple stakeholder groups, and organization-wide change. We turn lessons from these deployments into better products and reusable patterns for customers everywhere. About the Role As an Applied AI Engineer you will partner directly with leading organizations to design, build, and deploy AI systems that deliver measurable business outcomes. You will combine deep technical judgment, hands-on engineering, and customer leadership to take ambitious ideas from use-case selection and architecture through prototyping, evaluation, production launch, and scale. You will write and debug code, build evaluation systems, resolve complex integrations, and guide decisions involving model behavior, reliability, latency, cost, safety, security, governance, and operational readiness. Success is measured by production systems, sustained adoption, and meaningful customer impact—not simply activity or successful demonstrations. This is a rare opportunity to work on consequential real-world deployments at the frontier of AI while directly influencing how OpenAI’s products evolve. 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: Partner directly with enterprise customers to identify high-value opportunities and translate them into technical architectures, implementation plans, evaluation strategies, and measurable success criteria. Design, build, an

As a Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for driving the healthy adoption and positive experience of some of Datadog’s largest and most strategic customers. 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 Sales and Technical Solutions to proactively drive adoption from onboarding through to maturity. Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers. Discover, own and manage the customer’s success plan. Ensure consistent alignment with decision makers on the impact of their investment in Datadog. Proactively build and maintain targeted relationships with people of influence throughout the customer base. Collaborate cross-functionally with internal Datadog teams (sales, support, enablement, product, finance, and legal). Monitor and analyze usage trends to uncover potential renewal opportunities and risks. Act as the primary owner of customer adoption and health. Support your colleagues and cross functional teammates in the development of best practices. With demonstrated understanding of observability and security platforms, align customers technical and business objectives to our platform offerings Who You Are: Min of 5+ years in a Customer Success or Account Management role in B2B SaaS (Exp in serving a technical audience a plus). Strong experience working with a portfolio of accounts that included large Enterprise. Excellent in driving discovery to understand your customers key pain points, objectives and priorities. Demonstrate expert level in communicating complex concepts and aligning them to the pains and objectives of your customers. Experienced in shifting your message effectively to align with the expectations of the audience. You’re excited to work i

As an Enterprise Customer Success Manager, you will be responsible for driving the healthy adoption and positive experience of some of Datadog’s largest and most strategic customers. 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 Sales and Technical Solutions to proactively drive adoption from onboarding through to maturity. Own and project manage the on-boarding process for new customers. Discover, own and manage the customer’s success plan. Ensure consistent alignment with decision makers on the impact of their investment in Datadog. Proactively build and maintain targeted relationships with people of influence throughout the customer base. Collaborate cross-functionally with internal Datadog teams (sales, support, enablement, product, finance, and legal). Monitor and analyze usage trends to uncover potential renewal opportunities and risks. Act as the primary owner of customer adoption and health. With demonstrated understanding of observability and security platforms, align customers technical and business objectives to our platform offerings Who You Are: 3+ years in a Customer Success or Account Management role in B2B SaaS. Experience working with a portfolio of accounts that included large Enterprise. Experienced in driving discovery to understand your customers key pain points, objectives and priorities. Excellent in communicating complex concepts and aligning them to the pains and objectives of your customers. Experienced in shifting your message effectively to align with the expectations of the audience. You’re excited to work in a fast paced environment, where you’re expected to consistently develop your skill set and play an active role in the development of the team’s best practices. Able to t

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . We’re looking for an Agency Lead to help grow Pinterest’s agency business in Japan. As the primary point of contact for the HoldCo agency partners, you’ll leverage executive relationships and your Pinterest ad platform expertise to inspire agencies to become Pinterest ad experts. Scaling education and product knowledge will be a big part of the role, as you will help transform our agency partners into advocates by educating them on how to leverage Pinterest’s paid and organic solutions to meet their clients’ goals. In doing so, you’ll play a key role in scaling one of the fastest growing advertising platforms in history through your agency partnerships. What You'll do: Drive incremental and new business revenue with top agencies Build relationships at the c-level and educate agencies to master the Pinterest ad platform an

About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . As the Sales Manager for CPG and Growth verticals in Japan, you will define, launch and drive strategic outcomes and operationalize the vision for the sales team. We’re looking for a high-performing candidate with experience building advertising / media sales teams from the ground up, passion for solving ambiguous problems, excellent communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functionally and globally. Our advertising business is thriving, our user base continues to grow, and we believe the impact of this role can fuel our company to grow in unprecedented ways. What you’ll do: Drive and grow revenue with top existing and potential partners Partner with the world’s top marketers to build integrated marketing programs and engage partners in content growth opportunities Shape the future of our Sales organization by building, trai

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 an Onboarding Manager, you'll partner with our largest customers and help set them up for immediate success by leading them through a clearly defined onboarding process. You'll build and leverage key cross-functional relationships across Sales, Marketing, and Product Support as you deliver an exceptional onboarding experience. You'll use metrics, customer feedback, and direct experience to help identify new initiatives and materials needed to better engage and support our customers. You bring strong communication and project management skills, and a genuine investment in customer outcomes. This is a full-time, hybrid role based out of our Tokyo hub. What you'll do at Figma: Own and manage the onboarding process for our largest customers from pre-sales through successful onboarding closeout Partner closely with Account Executives to ensure smooth customer handoff experience Understand customer goals and successfully manage their onboarding timeline towards value Collaborate with Technical Account Managers, Designer Advocates, and Product Support to drive a seamless customer onboarding experience Report on metrics and customer feedback to assess the impact of successful onboarding and to help identify new customer initiatives and product opportunities Develop content and enablement resources for customers to use for training/education and to help accelerate product adoption Understand and consult on product and industry best practices in order to act as a trusted advisor to our customers and in

Role Description As a Technical Solutions Specialist based in Japan, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor to Dropbox customers, partners, and our Direct Sales and Channel teams across Japan and Korea. You will independently lead technical discovery, solution design, product demonstrations, integration and security discussions, pilots, and proofs of concept across both markets. You will help customers understand how Dropbox can enable secure collaboration, AI-powered workflows, and broader workplace transformation. Working closely with Sales, Channel, Customer Success, Product, and Engineering, you will translate complex technical requirements into clear business outcomes, support strategic opportunities from early discovery through post-sales handoff, and strengthen the technical capabilities of our partner ecosystem. Responsibilities Partner with the Direct Sales and Channel teams to understand customer requirements and design secure, scalable solutions across Dropbox products, add-ons, and third-party integrations. Lead technical discovery sessions, product demonstrations, architecture workshops, security reviews, pilots, and proofs of concept. Advise customers and partners on APIs, integrations, migration strategies, deployment approaches, and the ongoing management and security of Dropbox solutions. Build trusted technical relationships with stakeholders across IT, Security, Engineering, Operations, business leadership, and executive teams, confidently addressing technical objections and risk considerations. Translate technical capabilities into clear business value and develop tailored workflows and solutions that support measurable customer outcomes. Enable Sales teams, Customer Success teams, service delivery partners, and channel partners through technical training, demonstrations, and reusable content, while ensuring a smooth transition from pre-sales to post-sales. Represent the voice of the customer to Dropbox Product teams and leadership, and pa

About the Team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role As a foundational FDE manager, you’ll lead FDE through high-stakes, ambiguous customer deployments and own technical and business value outcomes end to end. You’ll grow a team that can operate under pressure and help OpenAI learn from the field. You’ll partner closely with Product, Research, Sales, and GTM to ensure fieldwork informs roadmap priorities, drives new exploration, and supports safe deployment at scale. Your decisions will influence how OpenAI is trusted by the customers closest to our deployment work. Your success will be measured by how consistently your team ships, how clearly you deliver signal to Research and Product, and how durable your team and delivery model prove to be. 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. This role also will require travel up to 40%, although mainly local. To succeed in this position you must be bilingual—fluent in both Japanese and English (spoken and written). Please note that your resume must be submitted in English, and the interview process will include conversations in both languages. In this role, you will: Lead and grow a team of FDE delivering production systems with frontier models Own end-to-end delivery outcomes through clarity, speed, tight coordination, and technical quality Codify what works into tools, playbooks, and roadmap inputs that create leverage for both OpenAI and our wider developer community Notice early indicators and raise them with urgency, whether in product behavior, customer environments, or delivery practices Use judgement to distinguish what requires action and what does not Set a high bar for FDE performance and support each person’s growth through direct, acti

About the team OpenAI’s Forward Deployed Engineering team partners with customers to turn research breakthroughs into production systems. We operate at the intersection of customer delivery and core platform development. About the Role This is a founding role. As a Technical Deployment Lead (TDL), you will define how OpenAI delivers complex systems to customers. You will own how they are built, shipped, and adopted. You’ll translate business outcomes into a technical plan, run day-to-day execution across FDEs, Researchers, and Customer Engineers, and partner with customer teams to ensure delivery supports their goals. This is not a management role, however you'll own delivery end-to-end: embedding with customers to map workflows and success criteria, ensuring components ship on time, and leading readiness and change management for adoption. You’ll track progress, manage dependencies, make sequencing decisions, and drive 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale. You will also share field insights with Product and Research to guide roadmap and priorities. Success will be measured first and foremost by impact - deployments that deliver measurable value against customer goals, drive adoption, and become critical to their workflows. Additional measures of success include delivery reliability (milestones hit, low reopen/churn), operating leverage (patterns reused across deployments), judgment under pressure, and product impact (field signal that shifts roadmaps/architectures). This is a high-trust, high-autonomy role. Success requires deep technical project management expertise, extreme ownership of outcomes, and an ability to immerse in customer workflows and partner with customer teams to solve complex engineering problems at pace. This role is based in Tokyo. We use a hybrid model of 3 days in office and offer relocation assistance. Travel up to 25-50% is required. To succeed in this position you must be fully bilingual—fluent in both Japanese and English (spoken and writt

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

About Us At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a "normalized" problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in. Available Locations Tokyo, Japan About the Role Account Executives, Business Development Representatives, Solution Engineers, Customer Success, and Sales Operations - all working together help our customers adopt Cloudflare and create great Internet-enabled experiences. The sales team at Cloudflare helps customers solve real, technical problems while creating the revenue streams that help the company provide free service to millions in our communi

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

Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! Why this role? In this role, you will have ownership of the full sales cycle - from identifying leads to closing deals for enterprises across diverse industries in Japan such as financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, energy, telecommunications and oil and gas. Cohere seeks an approachable and compelling communicator who loves working with prospects to uncover their needs and feels comfortable developing tailored value propositions around how Cohere’s platform can help them achieve their business goals. You’ll lay the foundation for Cohere’s growth by owning your territory and collaborating with teammates across Customer Success, Sales Development, Marketing and Sales Engineering. You’ll be the voice of the field and partner with our Product and Engineering teams to prioritize the Cohere roadmap with customer-centric care. In this highly self-directed role, you are someone who thrives in an unstructured and quickly evolving environment. And your opportunity for impact will be astronomical — Cohere has skies-the-limit potential, and you’ll help us reach it. As an Account Executive, you will : Focus on net-new logo acquisit