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📍 Japan· Full-time
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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 Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) lead complex end-to-end deployments of frontier models in production alongside our most strategic customers. You will own discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout, partnering directly with customer engineering and domain teams. You will measure success through production adoption, measurable workflow impact, and eval-driven feedback that changes product and model roadmaps. You’ll work closely with our Product, Research, Partnerships, GRC, Security, and GTM teams. 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. Travel is expected in this role, mainly within Japan. 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 Own technical delivery across multiple deployments from first prototype to stable production Build full-stack systems that deliver customer value and sharpen how we learn Embed closely with customer teams, understand their needs, and guide adoption of what you build Scope work, sequence delivery, and remove blockers early Make trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality; adjust plans to protect delivery Contribute directly in the code when progress or clarity depends on it Codify working patterns into tools, playbooks, or building blocks that others can use Share field feedback that helps Research and Product understand where the models succeed and where they can improve Keep teams moving through clarity and follow-through You might thrive in this role if you Bri

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Overview: The Client Service team connects Guidepoint’s clients with subject-matter experts to better inform their business decisions. They take the time to understand each client’s specific research needs and deliver the experts closest to the topic, often within hours. Interview Process: Meet your Guidepoint Recruiter! Initial Candidate Screen Meet the Guidepoint Teams! Hiring Manager Interview Hiring Team Interview Mock Assessment Complete a stimulated client request and gain more insight into the role Mock Review Interview Interview Process Outcome Who We Are: Team-oriented and collaborative Hard-working professionals who strive for excellence Built-in mentorship to help you drive and improve your project management and customer service skills, to deliver excellent results for clients Hands-on leadership to help you develop your career and provide opportunities for upward mobility within Guidepoint Guidepoint is passionate about your career growth: Check out our Client Service Career Trajectory. What you will own: Work with Project Managers and other team members to develop strategies for satisfying each client project request Operate in a sales environment to identify the best experts to join our network who provide consultant for client projects Utilize LinkedIn, press releases, case studies and the internet to identify the best experts for clients to get their strategic or investment questions answered Screen experts for their suitability for specific client projects and create professional profiles for client consideration Operate with a global teamwork mentality that leads to building and maintaining strong relationships with other Guidepoint employees, offices, and Advisors Experience you will bring: Bachelor’s degree or above Previous internship, volunteering or extracurriculars Skills you will bri

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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

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📍 Japan· Full-time
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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

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📍 Japan· Full-time
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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

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📍 Japan· Full-time· Remote
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About the team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity. This long-term undertaking brings the world’s best scientists, engineers, and business professionals into one organization. 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 includes Sales, Solutions, Support, Marketing, and Partnerships professionals who work together to create valuable solutions that help bring AI to as many users as possible. About the role OpenAI is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Account Director to join our Startup Go-To-Market team. You will play a critical role in owning relationships with top startup customers and supporting them in successfully building on the OpenAI platform. Many of the most disruptive and category-defining AI applications are being created by startups. The Startup Go-To-Market team's mission is to help startups harness the power of OpenAI’s technology to drive these advances. You will support startups in building effectively with OpenAI’s APIs, SDKs, and applications while providing access to OpenAI’s technical expertise and networks to help accelerate their progress. This role is a mixture of technical understanding, vision, partnership, and strategy. You’ll be responsible for serving as the primary relationship owner for a range of strategically important startup customers. You’ll also work cross-functionally with product, research, engineering, support, and technical solutions teams to help customers get the most out of our models. This role will be based in Tokyo . In this role, you'll: Manage a portfolio of startup accounts, developing and executing strategies for comprehensive account management. Partner with AI Deployment Engineers to drive successful technical engagements with startups. Own consumption and contracted revenue targets while managing revenue fo

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📍 Japan· Full-time
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The xDR Team Reporting into the Japan Sales Development Director, the Japan xDR team supports the Enterprise, Commercial and Emerging sales segments. The team is part of the wider APJ xDR Organization (ANZ/Asia/JP) and shares the team mission of securing the future of APJ by cultivating high-calibre talent and revenue generating pipeline. The Sales Development Representative Opportunity Reporting to the Japan SDR Director, this role will prospect target accounts to set opportunities that generate demand for our sales organization. The Sales Development Representative role is a great opportunity to kick-start your sales and marketing career here at Okta and help drive demand for our market-leading cloud adoption and management solution. We are looking for an individual who is curious and motivated. The ideal candidate will possess strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and communication skills. A strong candidate is flexible with change, comfortable in a fast-paced environment, and eager to begin a career in Sales and Marketing. Many of our SDRs move internally to become an Account Executive in our Sales teams. What you’ll be doing Prospecting for new business opportunities via outbounding initiatives. Qualifying, nurturing and developing a volume of inbound leads on set target accounts. Generating sales-ready meetings and opportunities for the Account Executives. Researching contacts and generating demand through call and email campaigns. Utiliz

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📍 Japan· Full-time
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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

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

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

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📍 Japan· Full-time
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As an Account Executive on our Mid-Market Sales team (targeting customers 1,000 to 5,000 employees in size), you will assist in Datadog’s overall business growth by strategically engaging and closing net-new customers across mid-to-large size organizations. Sellers follow a well-defined methodology, collaborate with internal stakeholders & partner ecosystem, identify the customer's unique needs, and clearly convey the value of the Datadog solution. Mid-Market AE’s have the opportunity to grow their careers in Sales and continue contributing to Datadog team success. 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: Focus entirely on net-new logo acquisition Manage the full sales cycle, including negotiations and on-site technical demonstrations Identify robust set of business drivers behind all opportunities Develop a deep comprehension of customer's business Strategically prospect into Chief Technology Officers, Engineering/IT Leaders, and technical end users (SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps) Multi-thread into different departments of a complex organization Collaborate with Sales Development Representatives, Partners, & Marketing to drive top of funnel activity Apply modern sales strategy with real time signals and research using tools Sales Navigator & Demandbase 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 experience, we encourage you to apply. Who You Are: Curious and motivated to understand emerging technologies and how they intersect with core business drivers. Experienced in hunting, strategically mapping and breaking into net new logos Strong Pipeline Generation skills, bold in front of customers

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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 member of our Customer Operations & Support Team, you’ll be the voice of Figma as you help ensure our community has an exceptional experience across our different public platforms and touch-points (community forum, social, etc.) You’ll be engaging with our customers both directly and publicly, which will require critical thinking, an investigative mentality, and outstanding communication skills. We’re looking for a great teammate based in Japan who can cover weekdays and is technically inclined, eager to learn about design tools and community, and comfortable working in a startup-like environment where there are a lot of hats to wear. What you’ll do at Figma: Monitor our community and social platforms (community forum, X, Reddit etc.) and handle escalations Provide outstanding technical support for new and experienced Figma users on community and social platforms Help moderate and organize our community forum, making sure it stays a healthy and safe space for our global community Improve engagement and create a seamless one-to-many support experience Collaborate with our design and engineering teams to investigate and resolve complex issues Work with our Technical Quality Support team to report and escalate technical issues with the appropriate teams Collect and consolidate customer feedback into meaningful recommendations for our product and research teams Close the feedback loop with users when bugs are resolved and feature requests are implemented We'd love to hear from you if

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