Location: Tokyo, Japan

We are seeking exceptional early-career leaders to serve as Heads of Strategic Growth. Reporting directly to the CEO with intensive mentorship during your first year, you will leverage your government relationships and policy expertise to structure and close transformational deals that establish Rhombus as the predictive intelligence partner of choice for defense and national security organizations in your assigned territory.

This is a rare opportunity for rising stars in the defense policy community with congressional, parliamentary, or senior government experience and deep networks across defense, intelligence, and foreign policy establishments—to transition into a high-impact commercial role. You will combine your understanding of how governments make decisions with the business acumen to negotiate complex deals, acting as both strategic advisor and deal maker - from open, to construction, and close for some of the most consequential technology partnerships in national security.

If you're a former congressional staffer, defense policy professional, or government strategist who has spent the last few years building industry experience and are ready to own revenue outcomes while shaping how allied nations deploy AI for national security, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Own Sales and Revenue Growth in Assigned Territory: Structure, negotiate, and close high-value deals ($5M-$50M+) with defense ministries, intelligence agencies, and national security organizations across your geographic area of responsibility (United States, Europe, or Asia-Pacific).
• Leverage Government Networks and Relationships: Activate your existing relationships with senior officials, congressional/parliamentary leaders, defense committees, and national security stakeholders to open doors, facilitate introductions, and position Rhombus for strategic opportunities.
• Structure Strategic Partnerships and Agreements: Design deal structures, partnership frameworks, and contractual arrangements that align Rhombus capabilities with government priorities, including multi-year programs, pilot-to-production pathways, and allied nation collaborations.
• Serve as Trusted Advisor to Senior Government Officials: Engage at the highest levels of government—Ministers, Assistant Secretaries, Committee Staff Directors, Intelligence Directors, and SES officials—articulating how Rhombus predictive intelligence capabilities address strategic national security challenges.
• Develop Market Entry and Expansion Strategies: Assess political landscapes, defense priorities, threat perceptions, and budget environments in your territory to identify high-potential opportunities and craft go-to-market strategies that resonate with government buyers.
• Collaborate with CEO on Strategic Vision: Work for the CEO as both protégé and strategic partner, contributing to company strategy, shaping product-market fit for government customers, and representing Rhombus in high-stakes negotiations and policy discussions.
• Coordinate Cross-Functionally on Deal Execution: Partner with Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Legal, and Finance teams to ensure deal structures are technically feasible, legally sound, and operationally deliverable, managing handoffs from signed contract to successful implementation.
• Mentor Under CEO for First Year: Participate in intensive one-year mentorship program under the CEO and his core leadership team, learning business strategy, deal structuring, technology positioning, and commercial skills while contributing strategic value from day one through your government expertise and relationships.
• Report on Pipeline and Deal Progression: Deliver regular updates on pipeline development, deal status, relationship-building progress, and market dynamics, with clear visibility into revenue forecasts and strategic opportunities in your territory.
• Represent Rhombus at Government and Industry Forums: Serve as company representative at defense conferences, bilateral meetings, congressional hearings (as appropriate), parliamentary inquiries, security dialogues, and industry events relevant to your geographic market.

Qualifications

• Government Policy and Legislative Experience: Background as congressional staffer (ideally with Armed Services Committee, Intelligence Committee, or Foreign Relations Committee), parliamentary advisor, senior defense ministry official, or equivalent government role with direct exposure to national security policy and decision-making at the highest levels.
• Established Government Network: Deep, active relationships across defense and national security establishments in your territory, including senior officials in defense ministries, intelligence agencies, military services, legislative bodies, and national security councils. You should be able to name 20+ senior contacts you could call today.
• Industry Transition Experience (minimum 3 years): Post-government experience in defense technology, consulting, or related industry roles where you've begun applying your policy expertise to commercial outcomes.
• Deep Understanding of Defense Procurement and Authorization: Expert knowledge of how governments buy technology, allocate budgets, and authorize programs, including familiarity with authorization processes (e.g., NDAA in U.S., defense white papers internationally), appropriations cycles, and procurement frameworks.
• Strategic and Analytical Thinking: Ability to assess geopolitical dynamics, defense priorities, threat landscapes, and political environments to identify opportunities and craft strategies. Background in political science, international relations, security studies, or related fields.
• Exceptional Communication and Executive Presence: Ability to engage credibly with Ministers, Generals, Assistant Secretaries, Committee Staff Directors, and CEOs. Skilled at articulating complex technology capabilities in policy-relevant terms and writing policy papers, briefing memos, and strategic documents.
• Elite Educational Background: Degree from top-tier institution in political science, international relations, security studies, or related field. Advanced degree (Master's or equivalent) strongly preferred.
• Geographic and Cultural Expertise: Deep knowledge of regional defense ecosystems, political dynamics, and cultural norms in your assigned territory. Native or near-native language capability as relevant.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset and Ownership Mentality: Comfort operating with significant autonomy, building strategies from scratch, and owning revenue outcomes. Willingness to learn commercial skills rapidly while applying government expertise.
• Security Clearance Eligibility: Citizenship or permanent residency in the country of assignment with ability to obtain necessary security clearances as applicable.
• Willingness to Travel Extensively: Flexibility to travel 50%+ for customer meetings, government engagements, conferences, and headquarters visits. Regular travel to Palo Alto, CA headquarters is expected.

Competitive base salary commensurate with experience, aggressive commission structure tied to closed revenue, equity participation, and benefits. Compensation package designed to reward top performers who exceed ambitious revenue targets.

About the Role

Abnormal AI is seeking a Channel Account Manager (Japan) to join our Channel Management team. This role is pivotal in supporting our sales efforts by developing and managing key relationships with channel partners across Japan, serving as the foundational Channel Account Manager for the region.

As part of a highly collaborative and detail-oriented team, you will build strong relationships with both national and regional partners. You’ll work cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and technical teams to align go-to-market strategies, drive partner engagement, and support the successful execution of joint sales efforts. Your ability to adapt to diverse stakeholder needs - from executives to technical staff - will be essential as you represent Abnormal's value in a competitive market.

About You

As the ideal candidate for this role, you have a strong sales DNA, and a track record of 10+ years of success leveraging channel partners to drive growth and sales productivity.  You understand that pipeline is the lifeblood of the business and as such, you have a detailed methodology for driving activities that consistently generate partner-sourced pipeline and bookings. Your weekly level of activity and engagement is very high, as you drive collaboration and engagement with partners via account mapping sessions, develop Partner Account Plans, partner with marketing to execute channel-marketing events, recruit and onboard new partners, and support the sales teams that you are mapped to.

You have strong relationships with key information security channel partners throughout the region including both National Partners and local headquartered regional partners.  You are highly analytical and detail oriented, and you’re able to adapt as you deal with the different personals within a partner (CEO, Sales and Technical leadership, AEs, SAs, etc).  You have strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills and are able to clearly and effectively articulate Abnormal AI's value, and help partners understand how Abnormal will be critical to their business growth and strategic initiatives.

In this job, you will bring these skills

• Ability to apply a channel methodology that you have successfully implemented in the past to this role
• Know who to work with and which partners can move the needle in the territory
• Be a good presenter: ability to help partners clearly understand what pain points Abnormal Security can alleviate for their customers
• Strong follow through with channel partners to turn the trainings and demand gen sessions into pipeline
• Good at conflict resolution between partners, reps, and customers when needed
• Organizational skill is key to good channel management.  Being quick to respond to inquiries in a timely manner as well as not letting tasks fall through the cracks.
• Grit; ability to find success in an early-stage environment without all the resources/teams available to much larger organizations
• Good understanding of how to leverage other departments including Sales Engineering, Marketing, BDRs, Product and Customer Success
• In addition to excelling at the core responsibilities and deliverables, you are considered by local Sales and SE leadership as a key “go-to” person to help with aspects outside pure channel-related topics (i.e. hiring, territory changes, QBRs, team structure, etc)

Role Responsibilities and Deliverables

• Meet and exceed partner-sourced pipeline and booking targets (New Business Meetings, pipeline $ goals, % of total pipeline and bookings that are partner-sourced, etc)
• Work with Abnormal AI channel and sales leadership to identify the right partners for us to target and recruit.  This will include a set of national partners, regional partners, and eventually MSSPs.  
• Develop a go to market strategy and Partner Account Plans with our top partners that include a set of agreed upon set of sales goals, marketing goals, and certification goals.  
• Put together a channel enablement plan in place with the key target partners for both the sales and technical teams.
• Create a demand generation strategy with the key partners alongside the Abnormal Security channel marketing team to drive customer demand in territory.
• Work with the sales teams in your region to determine which prospects they deem their top targets to connect them with the right partners to help them to create a measurable channel sourced pipeline.  
• Regular interaction with partner principals, executives, and sales and sales management at existing and prospective partners
• Drive alignment between Abnormal Field Leadership (RD, SE Manager, etc) and key partner regional leaders
• Ensure that Abnormal-sourced opportunities are brought to our Focus Partners (as opposed to fulfilled via opportunistic partners)
• Conduct regular sales training presentations with partner sales teams to ensure they understand and can articulate Abnormal's product and services
• Work with the Marketing team to drive marketing programs with key partners and ensure that activities tie back to a successful ROI
• Assist with driving pipeline, sales qualification, and closing of business
• Develop and execute a regional strategy for recruiting new channel partners as needed to support growth
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Abnormal’s competitive positioning in the marketplace
• Oversee relationship building activities and account mapping activities between Abnormal's sales organization and partners in the territory
• Become a Subject Matter Expert on any number of channel topics (Deal Reg;  Account Plans;  PG plans;  new PG initiatives; etc) and then share these best practices with other CAMs through formal and informal enablement
• Become a trusted advisor to senior Sales and SE leadership for anything related to the business and territory

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About the role

As an Enterprise Account Executive, Manufacturing & Automotive based in Tokyo, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI technology across Japan's manufacturing and automotive industries — two of the largest and most technically sophisticated sectors in the world. You'll own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing, working with senior leaders at OEMs, tier-1 suppliers, and industrial manufacturers to help them accelerate R&D, optimize production operations, and transform engineering and knowledge work with Anthropic's AI solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Own and exceed revenue targets by winning new accounts and expanding relationships across Japan's major automotive OEMs, tier-1 and tier-2 suppliers, heavy industry manufacturers, electronics manufacturers, and industrial equipment companies
• Build and execute territory plans, identifying high-value opportunities across passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle OEMs, automotive parts suppliers, industrial machinery manufacturers, semiconductor and electronics producers, and materials/chemicals companies
• Lead consultative sales processes with senior stakeholders — including chief engineers, R&D directors, heads of digital transformation, manufacturing engineering leaders, connected-vehicle and software-defined vehicle (SDV) leads, and plant operations executives — positioning AI as a driver for engineering productivity, design and simulation acceleration, supply chain intelligence, factory floor optimization, and in-vehicle/product experiences
• Orchestrate internal teams (Product, Engineering, Applied AI, Partnerships) to deliver solutions tailored to the rigorous safety, quality, and reliability standards of automotive and manufacturing workflows, while respecting IP protection and data sovereignty requirements
• Stay deeply informed about trends across Japan's manufacturing and automotive sectors and global industry shifts — including electrification, SDV, autonomous driving, Industry 4.0, and smart factory initiatives — ensuring Anthropic is consistently positioned as a relevant and forward-thinking partner to companies navigating rapid technological transformation

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 8+ years of enterprise sales experience in Japan with significant exposure to the manufacturing or automotive industry — whether selling directly into OEMs, tier-1 suppliers, industrial manufacturers, or adjacent technology partners (PLM, CAD/CAE, MES, industrial software, cloud/data platforms) within the ecosystem
• A genuine understanding of how product development, manufacturing operations, and engineering organizations work in Japan, including the distinct dynamics of keiretsu relationships, long-cycle OEM–supplier partnerships, and the coexistence of traditional monozukuri culture with digital transformation initiatives
• A track record of building trusted relationships with technically sophisticated engineering and manufacturing teams, navigating organizations where chief engineers, R&D leaders, and plant/operations executives hold significant influence over technology decisions alongside traditional IT leadership
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stakeholder sales cycles typical of automotive and manufacturing enterprises — where decisions often involve multiple business units, rigorous POC and evaluation processes, and long-horizon strategic planning
• Proven experience exceeding revenue targets by identifying and closing opportunities across a diverse portfolio of manufacturing and automotive companies with varying scales, business models, and digital maturity
• A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality — you are a true team player who thrives in ambiguous, startup-like environments
• A strategic, analytical approach to identifying opportunities within Japan's manufacturing and automotive sectors combined with relationship-focused execution that earns trust with engineering, manufacturing, and business leaders alike
• A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely and responsibly for broad benefit
• Excellent communication skills in both Japanese and English

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary and commission structure commensurate with experience
• Equity participation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid work model with flexibility
• Access to cutting-edge AI technology and world-class research team

About the role

As an Enterprise Account Executive, Financial Services & Insurance based in Tokyo, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI technology across Japan's financial services and insurance organizations. You'll own the full sales cycle from prospecting to closing, working with senior leaders to help them modernize operations, strengthen risk management, and enhance customer experiences with Anthropic's AI solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Own and exceed revenue targets by winning new major FSI accounts and expanding existing relationships across Japan's banks, insurers, asset managers, and fintech companies
• Build and execute territory plans, identifying high-value opportunities across megabanks, regional banks, life and non-life insurers, and diversified financial groups
• Lead consultative sales processes with senior executives — including CIOs, CDOs, Chief Risk Officers, and compliance leaders — positioning AI as a driver for digital transformation, regulatory compliance, and improved customer experience
• Orchestrate internal teams (Product, Engineering, Applied AI, Partnerships) to deliver solutions that meet the stringent regulatory, security, and data governance requirements of the FSI sector

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 8+ years of enterprise sales experience in Japan with significant exposure to financial services and insurance accounts, driving adoption of emerging technologies with a consultative, solutions-oriented approach
• A track record of managing complex, long-cycle sales processes and securing strategic deals with FSI organizations by understanding sector-specific regulatory and compliance frameworks and crafting compliant solutions
• Demonstrated ability to navigate FSI stakeholder ecosystems, building consensus across IT, risk, compliance, and business operations teams with multiple budget authorities and approval layers
• Proven experience exceeding revenue targets by effectively managing pipeline across the varying budget cycles and fiscal timelines of large financial institutions
• A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic "roll up your sleeves" mentality — you are a true team player who thrives in ambiguous, startup-like environments
• A strategic, analytical approach to identifying opportunities within Japan's FSI sector combined with patient, relationship-focused execution
• A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely and responsibly for broad benefit
• Excellent communication skills in both Japanese and English

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary and commission structure commensurate with experience
• Equity participation
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid work model with flexibility
• Access to cutting-edge AI technology and world-class research team

About the role

As the founding member of our Japan Revenue Strategy & Operations team, you'll be instrumental in driving revenue growth across key market segments by partnering with sales leadership to develop and execute region-specific strategies. You will serve as a strategic partner, shaping how we win in Japan while building the operational foundations to scale.

Responsibilities:

Go-to-Market Strategy:

• Own the Go-to-Market planning process, including quarterly and annual cycles, and collaborate with Finance on target setting.
• Develop the strategy for segmenting territories and accounts.
• Identify market opportunities, assess competitive dynamics, and inform regional expansion priorities.
• Support Go-to-Market execution for alliances, focusing on co-selling, managing the partner pipeline, and facilitating joint planning.
• Analyze region-specific sales metrics and pipeline dynamics to develop proactive insights.

Cross-Functional Leadership:

• Lead collaboration across Strategy and RevOps, Sales Enablement, Strategic Finance, Product, and Marketing teams to ensure alignment.
• Prepare executive-level materials including performance reviews, strategic planning sessions, and board updates.
• Drive cross-functional alignment on go-to-market execution.

Operations & Infrastructure:

• Execute critical processes including strategic account transitions, CRM configurations, and market data management.
• Optimize the sales technology stack and ensure effective adoption of Salesforce and other sales tools.
• Ensure smooth operations across complex, multi-stakeholder sales motions typical in enterprise B2B software.

You may be a good fit if you have:

Required qualifications:

• 8-10+ years of experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise software, including direct experience in sales strategy, revenue operations, or commercial GTM roles
• Strong analytical capabilities with demonstrated ability to convert complex data into actionable insights
• Proven experience designing territories, setting quotas, and building variable compensation plans for enterprise sales teams
• Extensive experience with enterprise CRM systems (Salesforce required) and business intelligence tools
• Strong cross-functional skills with the ability to influence without direct authority and partner effectively with C-level stakeholders and senior sales leadership
• Experience advising or partnering with regional leadership on GTM strategy
• Business-level Japanese required; English proficiency strongly preferred

Strong candidates may also have:

• Track record of scaling sales organizations through 3x+ growth periods in B2B software
• Experience in Chief of Staff or Business Operations roles supporting regional leadership, go-to-market strategies for alliances, or consulting
• MBA or advanced degree