As a Sr Advisory Solution Consultant at Armis, you’ll bridge the gap between our advanced
solutions and our clients’ critical needs. You'll partner with our Sales team to provide technical
expertise, demonstrate our platform's value and ensure our customers are equipped to combat
today’s complex cybersecurity threats.
This is your chance to be the trusted technical advisor, solving challenges, delivering insights,
and directly contributing to the success of a global leader in the cybersecurity space. Not all
heroes wear capes…

What you will do…

● Engage & Educate: Partner with Sales Representatives to understand client
requirements, articulate the value of Armis solutions, and provide in-depth product
demonstrations tailored to their needs.
● Problem Solve: Analyze customer environments, identify challenges, and recommend
solutions that enhance their security posture.
● Customize Solutions: Develop proof-of-concept (POC) deployments and guide clients
through implementation strategies to showcase the effectiveness of Armis technology.
● Be a Technical Expert: Stay updated on the latest cybersecurity trends and Armis
product developments to position yourself as a go-to resource for both clients and
internal teams.
● Collaborate: Work cross-functionally with Product, Engineering and Customer Success
teams to address feedback and continually enhance our offerings.
● Evangelize Security: Present at industry events, webinars, and customer meetings to
highlight the importance of robust asset visibility and security.

What we expect…

● Technical Expertise: Proven experience in a Sales Engineer, Solutions Architect, or
related technical role, essential to have deep knowledge & experience in cybersecurity.
● Hands-On Knowledge: Familiarity with IT, IoT, OT environments, and cybersecurity
frameworks. Hands-on experience with networking, security tools & enterprise software.
● Sales Acumen: Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business value
propositions that resonate with customers.
● Communication Skills: Exceptional presentation and interpersonal abilities, with a knack
for building trust with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
● Problem Solver: A proactive mindset with strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
● Education & Certifications: A bachelor’s degree in a related field (Computer Science,
Engineering, etc.) or equivalent experience. Industry certifications (e.g., CISSP, CEH)
are advantageous.

We know there is a lot to consider when applying for a new job, and quite often job descriptions
provide a lot of detail for candidates… but here at Armis, we strongly encourage you to try to
avoid the confidence gap. We don’t expect you to meet each of the listed requirements perfectly
to be considered for any of our roles.

THE ROLE

The Field Solution Architect (FSA) is the regional business and technical leader for a specific workload, responsible for driving strategy, execution, and measurable business impact and growth for that workload across the assigned geo.  Acting as a Workload Business Owner, the FSA combines deep technical expertise with cross-functional leadership to grow the pipeline, accelerate bookings, and strengthen Everpure’s ecosystem.

The FSA partners closely with district and regional Sales, Sales Engineering, Global Partner Organization, and Marketing leadership to shape and execute go-to-market strategies for their assigned workload. Through annual planning cycles, quarterly sales reviews (QSRs), and ongoing GTM alignment, the FSA advises leadership on market opportunity, customer priorities, and competitive dynamics. By adding workload-specific insights into regional and district strategies, the FSA ensures growth opportunities are clearly represented, prioritized, and translated into actionable plans that drive pipeline creation, bookings, and sustained adoption.

The role requires strong technical depth in Artificial Intelligence, Analytics and/or high performance computing along with a solid understanding of the surrounding ecosystem. Curious and proactive, the FSA drives enablement, knowledge sharing, and new opportunity development to expand Everpure’s impact across the region.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Key Responsibilities

  1. Workload Ownership and Business Growth

  Own the business success of your workload across APJ. Operate with a business development mindset and partner with regional GTM leadership to drive structured annual planning, and alignment across sales, SE, marketing and partner organizations.

  Activities:

  • Develop and execute a regional “Workload Business Plan” with measurable goals and actions.
    
    
    
  • Conduct TAM and whitespace analysis to identify growth opportunities.
    
    
    
  • Collaborate with Sales, SE, Marketing, and Partner Leadership to track and execute regional GTM plays for your workload.
    
    
    

   

  • Maintain alignment with HQ and product teams to refine technical messaging (“Why Everpure / Why Now”).
    
    
    
  • Track progress and report quarterly insights and outcomes to leadership.
    
    
    

  2. Strategic Account Engagement

  Take ownership for integrating your solution strategy into the top strategic account Technical Account Plans, ensuring clear actions that drive expansion and sustained workload growth.The FSA acts as a trusted advisor and workload strategist, partnering with account teams, alliance partners, to uncover insights that shape Everpure’s positioning and accelerate workload adoption, pipeline generation, bookings growth.

  • Investigate workload presence within the top-strategic accounts. Understand what the customer is currently using, which vendors and technologies are involved, and where Everpure can add differentiated value.
  • Lead or co-lead strategic pipeline creation customer meetings, workshops, architecture reviews, and workload deep dive sessions
    
    
    
  • Collaborate with alliance and ecosystem partners to gather technical and commercial intelligence that informs competitive strategy and solution fit.
    
    
    
  • Co-develop account-specific workload strategies with AE/SE teams, aligning Everpure’s strengths with the customer’s business priorities.
    
    
    
  • Drive workload-specific opportunity identification, cross-sell, and upsell within key accounts.
    
    
    
  • Lead or support executive briefings (EBCs), roadmap discussions, and innovation workshops to influence long-term architecture decisions.
    
    
    

  3.  Domain Mastery of the Solution

  Be the regional Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the assigned workload demonstrating mastery of both the technology and the sales motion. Align workload strategies and architectures with Everpure Storage’s unique strengths to drive differentiation, technical wins, and measurable customer outcomes.

  • Demonstrate 501-level technical expertise and maintain up-to-date knowledge of the solution area.
    
    
    
  • Proactively drive technical wins in key opportunities and complex deals.
    
    
    
  • Lead architecture reviews, workshops, and technical demonstrations.
    
    
    
  • Provide competitive intelligence, product insights, and updates to the field.
    
    
    
  • Align workload positioning and architectures with Everpure’s platform strengths: Evergreen, simplicity, efficiency, and Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC).
    
    
    
  • Mentor SEs to independently position, design, and size solutions confidently.
    
    
    
  • Maintain readiness of demo environments and FSA lab assets.
    
    
    
    

  4. Ecosystem, Evangelism and Enablement

  Act as the voice and advocate of your workload across Everpure, partners, and the broader ecosystem. Build a strong technical community that amplifies Everpure’s message, strengthens partner capability, and drives mutual success across alliances and the channel.

  • Collaborate with alliance partners, ISVs, and GSIs to identify complementary technologies that strengthen Everpure’s workload positioning.
    
    
    
  • Leverage alliance and partner intelligence to uncover where workloads are deployed today and translate findings into actionable insights for account teams.
    
    
    
  • Lead quarterly enablement sessions and workload-focused workshops for partners, SEs, and sales teams to scale capability and readiness.
    
    
    
  • Represent Everpure at industry events, alliance webinars, and technical forums to promote Everpure’s differentiated workload strategy.
    
    
    
  • Publish technical content: blogs, demos, and videos to reinforce thought leadership and solution relevance.
    
    
    
  • Channel field intelligence, competitive insights, and feature requests to HQ via structured feedback loops and the RFE process.
  1. Operational Excellence

   

  The FSA proactively engages on key opportunities to drive technical wins and contribute to solution design in strategic deals, participating in regional deal reviews when aligned to their solution domain. Operational excellence is measured through consistent execution, data hygiene, and active field leadership that directly supports technical wins and workload growth.

  The role is accountable for maintaining clear, timely, and accurate SFDC updates, including opportunity details and specialist notes, for all engagements. These activities are measured and reviewed as part of the FSA’s overall performance to ensure sustained pipeline quality, execution discipline, and scalable success.

  Activities:

  • Maintain accurate, complete, and timely updates in SFDC for all engaged opportunities, including clear Specialist Notes, to ensure visibility, forecasting accuracy, and execution alignment.
    
    
    
  • Capture and document customer win stories tied to the solution domain on a quarterly basis, highlighting business value, technical differentiation, and repeatable success patterns.

WHAT YOU BRING 

• • Must be fluent in Japanese and proficient in English.
  • Advanced degree in computer science, engineering or mathematics
  • 10+ years’ experience with AI/ML systems across various aspects including LLMs, distributed training and inference optimization, data modelling, HPC, and/or cloud Infrastructure with special emphasis in areas of Compute, Storage, and Networking
  • Proficiency with PyTorch, Ray, Kubernetes, and GPU clusters (NVIDIA/AMD)
    Highly Motivated/Independent and self-starting
  • An outside the box thinker who can think innovatively
  • The ability to quickly dig in to learn and adapt to new technologies
  • Produce solution collateral for customers in the form of presentations, short papers, demos, Proof of concepts and
  • Create public content such as blogs, webinars or podcasts to drive thought leadership
  • Willingness to promote a culture of collaboration by partnering with solution stakeholders across the organization – eg. sales, alliance, marketing
  • A strong desire to mentor and coach team members throughout the organization.
  • Strong problem-solving skills
  • Must be able to communicate effectively and in a constructive manner with management, peers, coworkers as well as customers, partners and key industry stakeholders

   Preferred Qualifications

  • Experienced selling complicated technical solutions to customers.
  • Experience with high-performance storage technologies and data platforms

    (e.g.Kafka, Spark).

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シニアアナリスト – セールスオペレーション（Senior Analyst – Sales Operations） 勤務地：日本、東京（ハイブリッド/リモート勤務可） 雇用形態：正社員

ルーブリック（Rubrik）ジャパンの営業組織では、地域成長の戦略的カタリスト（促進剤）として貢献いただける、極めて優秀なセールスオペレーション・パートナーを募集しています。本職務では、日次のオペレーショナル・ケイデンス（業務リズム）を構築し、厳格なSalesforceガバナンスの監督、複雑なデータアーキテクチャの統合、およびエキスパートレベルのテクニカル・トラブルシューティングを担います。フィールドチームに対する主要なコンサルタントとして、クロスファンクショナルなリーダーシップ層と連携し、ビジネスワークフローの改善や業務上の障壁の除去を行い、営業組織の生産性を最大化させることがミッションです。

役割と責任

シニア・セールスオペレーション・アナリストとして、日本のフィールド組織における戦略的なオペレーショナル・アーキテクト（運用設計者）の役割を担います。日本のセールスリーダーシップ、営業担当者、システムエンジニア、および各機能部門と直接連携し、「ゴー・トゥ・マーケット（GTM）」エンジンを最適化します。本職務には、高度なCRMエコシステムを使いこなしながら、日本市場特有の要件とグローバルな企業フレームワークを調和させることができる、プロアクティブなコンサルタントとしての能力が求められます。

• 戦略的なフィールド支援（Field Advocacy）: 日本の営業責任者（VP of Sales）およびフィールドチームに対する主要なオペレーショナル・アドバイザーとして、セールスメソドロジー、ポリシーコンプライアンス、システム最適化に関する複雑な課題を解決します。また、グローバルおよびAPJのセールスオペレーション・マネジメントと連携し、営業担当者のクォータ（割当目標）設定を管理します。

• CRMおよび予測のオーケストレーション: Salesforce.com (SFDC) のライフサイクル活動全般を指揮し、Clariを用いた厳格なフォアキャスト（予測）の管理、リードの自動割り当て、案件登録（Deal Registration）の整合性維持、およびアカウント/商談の緻密なガバナンスを徹底します。

• パイプライン・インテリジェンスと分析: Clariを活用して週次のフォアキャスト・ケイデンスを促進し、リーダーシップ層に対してパイプラインの健全性と収益の予測可能性に関する高精度な可視性を提供します。

• ディールデスクおよび商務連絡: 営業組織とグローバル・ディールデスク/価格設定チーム間の戦略的な架け橋として機能します。日本向けのインセンティブプログラムや四半期ごとのSPIFF（特別販売奨励金）のローカライズ、価格設定およびパッケージングの展開推進、複雑な見積もりワークフローの合理化、および契約の正確性の確保を担います。

• 業務の最適化: 地域内のセールスサイクルにおけるボトルネックをプロアクティブに診断し、営業速度とスケーラビリティを加速させるための体系的なプロセス改善を設計・提案・導入します。

• テリトリーおよびデータ管理（Stewardship）: 戦略的なレビュー・ケイデンス（テリトリー・プランニング等）を主導し、ETM（Enterprise Territory Management）を用いたSFDC上の厳格なデータガバナンスを通じて地域のアカウントとテリトリーの割り当てを管理し、CRMのカスタマーマスターデータの正確性と品質を向上させます。

• マーケット・インテリジェンスの統合: プレミアムデータベース（HG Insights/D&B等）を活用してAPJのデータ拡充イニシアチブを推進し、地域のリードおよびアカウントの範囲を拡大・精緻化します。

• エグゼクティブ・レポート: 経営幹部の意思決定のために、データに基づいた実用的なインサイトを提供するカスタマイズされたアドホック・レポートやTableauダッシュボードを構築します。

応募要件

• 業界の専門知識: セールスオペレーションにおける6年以上の進歩的な経験。急成長中のSaaSまたはエンタープライズ・テクノロジー環境での経験が望ましい。

• 言語能力: 日本語ネイティブまたはビジネスレベル（JLPT N1保持者が望ましい）、および国境を越えた円滑なコラボレーションを確実に行えるプロフェッショナルレベルの英語力。

• テクニカル・マスタリー: Salesforceエコシステム、Clari、およびTableau（または同様のシステム）における高度な実務習熟度。

• 優れた分析能力: データ操作（高度なExcel、複雑なモデリング）に関する卓越したスキルと、細部および正確性に対する揺るぎないコミットメント。

• グローバルなコラボレーション: 多様なタイムゾーンや文化にまたがるマトリックス型のグローバル組織において、周囲をナビゲートし、影響を与える実証済みの能力。

• プロフェッショナルとしてのプレゼンス: プレッシャーの高い環境下で卓越した成果を出し、最小限の監督下で優先順位を管理できるエグゼクティブ・プレゼンスを備えた、自己完結型のスペシャリストであること。

システムに関する知識と経験

• CRM: Salesforce.com (SFDC)

• フォアキャスト（予測管理）: Clari

• BIツール: Tableau, Qlik

• ERP: NetSuite, Oracle, または SAP

• データソース: D&B, Hoovers, または同様のマーケット・インテリジェンス・データベース

学歴要件

• 学士号（Bachelor’s degree）必須

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Senior Analyst – Sales Operations
Location: Tokyo, Japan (Hybrid/Remote options available)
Type: Full-time

The Rubrik Japan Sales organization seeks a high-caliber Sales Operations partner to serve as a strategic catalyst for regional growth. In this capacity, you will orchestrate the daily operational cadence,overseeing rigorous Salesforce governance, synthesizing complex data architectures, and providing expert-level technical troubleshooting. Acting as a primary consultant to the field, you will collaborate with cross-functional leadership to refine business workflows and dismantle operational barriers, ensuring peak productivity for our sales organization.

Role and Responsibilities
As a Senior Sales Operations Analyst, you will serve as the strategic operational architect for the Japan Field Organization. You will partner directly with Japan Sales Leadership, Sales Representatives, Systems Engineers and functional teams, to optimize the "Go-to-Market" engine. This role demands a proactive consultant capable of navigating sophisticated CRM ecosystems while harmonizing local Japanese market requirements with global corporate frameworks.
   - Strategic Field Advocacy: Act as the primary operational advisor to the Japan VP of Sales and field teams—resolving complex questions on sales methodology, policy compliance, and system
optimization; and manage sales rep quota setting with Global/APJ sales ops management.
   - CRM & Forecast Orchestration: Direct all Salesforce.com (SFDC) lifecycle activities, ensuring rigorous forecast hygiene through Clari, automated lead distribution, deal registration integrity,
and meticulous account/opportunity governance.
  - Pipeline Intelligence & Analytics: Leverage Clari to facilitate weekly forecasting cadences, providing leadership with high-fidelity visibility into pipeline health and revenue predictability.
  - Deal Desk & Commercial Liaison: Act as the strategic bridge between the Sales organization and Global Deal Desk/Pricing teams—localizing incentive programs and quarterly SPIFFs for Japan, driving pricing and packaging rollouts, streamlining complex quoting workflows, and ensuring contract accuracy.
  - Operational Optimization: Proactively diagnose bottlenecks within the regional sales cycle; design, justify, and deploy systematic process enhancements to accelerate velocity and scalability.
  - Territory & Data Stewardship: Lead strategic review cadences (e.g., Territory Planning), manage regional account-to-territory alignment through ETM with rigorous SFDC data governance, and
enhance the accuracy and quality of CRM customer master data.
  - Market Intelligence Synthesis: Champion APJ data enrichment initiatives by leveraging premium databases (HG Insights/D&B) to expand and refine the regional lead and account universe.
  - Executive Reporting: Engineer bespoke ad-hoc reports and Tableau dashboards to deliver data-
driven, actionable insights for senior executive decision-making.

Requirement:
  - Industry Expertise: 6+ years of progressive experience in Sales Operations, ideally within a high-growth SaaS or Enterprise Technology environment.
  - Linguistic Versatility: Native or Business-level Japanese (JLPT N1 preferred) and professional English proficiency to ensure seamless cross-border collaboration.
  - Technical Mastery: Advanced, hands-on proficiency in the Salesforce ecosystem, Clari, and Tableau (or similar systems).
  - Analytical Excellence: Demonstrated mastery of data manipulation (Advanced Excel, complex modeling) with an unwavering commitment to detail and accuracy.
  - Global Collaboration: A proven ability to navigate and influence within a matrixed global organization across diverse time zones and cultures.
  - Professional Presence: A self-motivated specialist who excels in high-pressure environments, possessing the executive presence to manage competing priorities with minimal oversight.

Systems Knowledge and experience:
  - CRM: Salesforce.com (SFDC)
  - Forecasting: Clari
  - BI Tools: Tableau, Qlik
  - ERP: NetSuite, Oracle, or SAP
  - Data Sources: D&B, Hoovers, or similar market intelligence databases

Educational Requirement:
Bachelor’s degree is mandatory

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An overview of this role

GitLab is seeking a Principal Engineer to set technical direction for our most critical infrastructure platforms. This role operates at organizational scale, owning architecture, solving complex systems problems, and driving initiatives that shape how GitLab grows, performs, and remains reliable.

As a Principal Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority and force multiplier, leading architectural decisions across distributed and cloud-native systems to translate business strategy into durable technical direction. Spanning multiple teams and domains, you will bring clarity to ambiguity, raise engineering standards, and mentor senior talent while remaining accountable for real production outcomes. This is a hands-on, high-impact role for leaders who drive success through influence and shape the foundational platforms that the entire organization depends on.

Organizational Focus Areas

Principal Engineers at GitLab drive strategy across our most critical infrastructure and delivery groups. Role placement across the following tracks is determined by business need and organizational priority.

Group Tenant Scale (GTS)

This track builds GitLab’s next generation, multi-tenant, horizontally scalable, and resilient SaaS platform. You will architect the foundations that enable other engineering teams to build upon this platform and drive convergence among GitLab’s various platforms..

• Core Focus: Lead the design and evolution of projects that enable our distributed, multi-tenant SaaS transformation, including Cells, Organizations, and OrgMover.
• Distributed Architecture: Architect for zero downtime, transparent relocation, and application hardening in a massive distributed environment.
• Strategic Decisions: Guide architecture decisions with availability, reliability, resiliency, performance, and cost in mind.

GitLab Delivery 

The GitLab Delivery track focuses on enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and speed of GitLab’s end-to-end software delivery across all platforms and offerings.

• Core Focus: Lead the platform strategy spanning Developer Experience, CI infrastructure, packaging, and release delivery across SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated.
• Developer Experience: Treat GitLab engineers as customers, building self-service tooling, testing infrastructure, and paved paths that increase velocity while maintaining quality.
• Delivery at Scale: Architect reliable, automated pipelines that streamline how GitLab is packaged, released, and deployed across all platforms and offerings.

What You'll Do

• Own and drive the architectural direction for critical infrastructure platforms that support GitLab at global scale.
• Lead the design and evolution of large platforms and distributed systems that are scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient.
• Serve as the technical authority on complex initiatives, guiding decisions that impact multiple teams and product areas.
• Translate business and product strategy into long-term technical roadmaps and execution plans.
• Drive alignment across engineering, product, and leadership by clearly communicating tradeoffs and recommendations.
• Establish technical standards and architectural patterns that raise quality and consistency across the organization.
• Be accountable for production outcomes, including reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
• Mentor senior engineers and act as a force multiplier through influence rather than direct authority.
• Operate effectively in ambiguous problem spaces where both the problem and the solution need to be defined.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience designing and evolving large-scale platforms or distributed systems in cloud-native environments.
• Strong proficiency in Golang and/or Ruby, with the ability to contribute to, review, and guide core architectural changes in production codebases.
• Strong architectural judgment, including the ability to balance scalability, reliability, performance, security, and cost.
• Experience owning platform-level technical decisions that impacted multiple teams or an entire engineering domain.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes-based environments as a production platform, including how they influence system design, deployment models, reliability, and operational complexity.
• Experience being accountable for production systems, not just design recommendations.
• Ability to author and drive long-term technical strategy and multi-month roadmaps.
• Track record of leading through influence and shaping technical direction without direct authority.
• Comfort making high-impact technical decisions, including build vs buy vs partner tradeoffs.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to engineers, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.

About the team

The Principal Engineer role sits within GitLab’s Infrastructure Platforms organization, working across multiple teams to shape how our platform scales and operates. This group is responsible for some of GitLab’s most critical systems, including the multi-tenant SaaS platform, core delivery pipelines, and the underlying infrastructure that powers millions of users. As a Principal Engineer, you’ll define technical direction, guide architectural decisions, and ensure our platforms remain resilient, performant, and modern. The team operates fully remotely and collaborates asynchronously across time zones, grounded in GitLab’s values of transparency, autonomy, and open communication. You’ll help the organization tackle complex distributed systems challenges at scale while mentoring other engineers and building a culture focused on reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Staff Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Forward Deployed Engineering team. In this role you will be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying advanced AI Agentic Solutions that exhibit autonomous, proactive, and adaptive behaviors. This role requires a deep understanding of AI/ML technologies, integration, automation experience and solution architecture, combined with strong problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams.

Workato has a positive, diverse, and collaborative culture—we look for people who are curious, inventive, smart, hardworking, and work to be a little better every day. Workato has also been recognized amongst the “Top 47 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career On in 2020”, the “Hottest 13 Productivity Software Startups to Watch in 2020!”, and the “Top 15 startups helping even non-programmers build simple apps, ahead of an expected software developer shortage” by Business Insider.

In this role, you will also be responsible to:

• Architect and design intelligent, autonomous, and efficient agentic AI workflows that utilize multi-agent collaboration, orchestration, and the automation capabilities provided by the Workato platform

• Design and deploy Agentic AI solutions using Workato’s Agentic AI capabilities, leveraging its connectors, workflows, and recipes to enable context-aware, grounded, and real-time responses from large language models (LLMs)

• Develop techniques enabling large language models (LLMs) to reliably author complex behaviors

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable AI-powered IT workflows with agent-based decision-making, dynamic retrieval mechanisms, and seamless integration using the Workato Agentic AI platform.

• Technical solutions expert with an aptitude for technical advising, troubleshooting, and analysis. 

• Work closely with clients to understand requirements and provide technical guidance.

• Tailor Workato AI solutions to meet specific client needs, ensuring optimal functionality and scalability.

• Continuously monitor and improve AI system performance, ensuring efficiency and reliability

• With strong communication skills, you will be proficient in communicating technically complex ideas to a non-technical audience. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate AI workflows into existing IT frameworks.

• Ensure AI-driven automation is fault-tolerant, efficient, and aligned with enterprise IT best practices

• Create and deliver custom product demonstrations to support the sales and other internal teams.

• Improve internal processes, and promote knowledge sharing in the team, by contributing to Workato’s knowledge base

• Prioritize and deliver outstanding customer service experience to Workato customers

• Play a key role right from the product ideations stage to the implementation stage.

• Support the product manager in creating the technical and design specifications

Requirements

Qualifications / Experience / Technical Skills

• BTech/BE or higher technical education - Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or a related field.

• Total12+ years of relevant experience in the field of design, development and implementation.

• Proven experience in AI engineering, with a focus on agent-based systems.

• Demonstrated ability to design and implement scalable AI-driven workflows that enhance IT operations

• Knowledge of Implementing Integration projects is a must. Hands-on experience with automation technologies, middleware, integration architecture patterns, web services technologies, enterprise messaging patterns, APIs, SOA, ESB, BPM, SDKs, and Databases.

• 5+ years of experience, working with Integration Platform such as TIBCO, Dell Boomi, MuleSoft etc is a plus. Experience with cloud technologies - iPaaS, SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure

• Strong working knowledge with APIs - RESTful, SOAP/XML. Sound knowledge of Data Structure - JSON. Sound knowledge of any RDBMS/NoSQL. 

• 2-3  years of coding experience (Java/Python/Ruby)

• Technical background or a good understanding of technology and industry trends, especially in the app integration space

• Experience working with cloud business apps like Workday / NetSuite / Salesforce / Servicenow / Marketo is a plus

• Working knowledge on Microservices or API-based integration architecture, Event driven architecture, Process Automation via BPM or RPA is a plus.

Soft Skills / Personal Characteristics

• Strong collaboration skills, ability to adapt to a dynamic start-up environment with a passion for making an impact

• Strong critical thinking, analytical skills with an entrepreneurial and proactive mind-set

• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage time, even under high-pressure situations

• Strong written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts effectively to a non-technical audience

• Fast learner who can independently conduct extensive research, and synthesize ideas, information and options quickly

• Be proactive about solving problems and be ready to take on additional initiatives and responsibilities as they emerge

(REQ ID: 2747)

An overview of this role

As a Solutions Architect, you’ll be a trusted advisor to GitLab prospects and customers in Japan helping them understand how GitLab’s DevSecOps platform addresses both technical requirements and business objectives across the entire software development lifecycle. You’ll guide organizations through their digital transformation journeys, from planning through monitoring, using your technical expertise, understanding of cloud and modern software development practices, and strong customer empathy. Reporting to a regional Solutions Architect manager and partnering closely with Account Executives and cross-functional teams, you’ll own technical evaluations (including proof of value initiatives and workshops), shape solution architectures, and serve as the voice of the customer back to Product Management. In your first year, you’ll focus on driving successful platform adoption, influencing revenue growth through solution selling, and building long-term, trust-based relationships that showcase GitLab’s differentiated position in an AI-driven DevSecOps landscape.

What you’ll do

• Lead technical discovery, demos, and validation (including proofs of value) to show how GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform meets customers’ technical and business needs across the full lifecycle.
• Drive the technical evaluation process as the Directly Responsible Individual, including solution design, POC/POV ownership, workshop design, and the technical components of tenders, audits, and value stream assessments.
• Collaborate with Account Executives and regional sales teams in Japan to shape and execute account strategies that support new customer acquisition and expansion.
• Build and deepen relationships with technical practitioners and business leaders, guiding them through GitLab-driven digital transformation and enabling them to become GitLab advocates.
• Advise customers on modern software development, continuous integration, continuous deployment, security, and cloud practices, challenging existing approaches to improve return on investment.
• Serve as the voice of the customer with Product Management, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing by sharing feedback, use cases, and competitive insights that inform roadmap and positioning.
• Maintain and extend your technical expertise in GitLab, DevSecOps, AI, and related cloud technologies, creating reusable examples, best practice guidance, and technical collateral for customers and partners.
• Invest in your own growth and development through ongoing learning, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to continuously improve the impact of the Solutions Architect team.

What you’ll bring

• Experience engaging with customers in technical pre-sales, consulting, or similar roles, guiding them through solution design and evaluation.
• Proficiency with the end-to-end software development lifecycle, including modern DevSecOps practices and continuous integration and continuous deployment workflows.
• Hands-on experience with GitLab or comparable source control, CI/CD, and collaboration platforms, and the ability to map platform capabilities to customer use cases.
• Practical knowledge of cloud computing concepts and related technologies, with the ability to discuss deployment, security, and operations options with technical teams.
• Ability to lead technical evaluations such as proofs of concept or proofs of value, contribute to tenders or audits, and design and run workshops or value stream assessments.
• Clear technical communication and presentation skills, with the ability to adapt messages for practitioners through to senior business and technical decision makers.
• Skill in building trusted relationships, listening with empathy, and acting as a customer advocate to internal teams such as Product, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.
• Motivation to continuously develop professionally, including learning new technologies, deepening GitLab platform expertise, and applying transferable experience from related fields.

About the team

We, the Solutions Architect team, are part of GitLab’s Sales organization and serve as the technical counterpart to Account Executives, with this role focused on opportunities in Japan and reporting into a regional Solutions Architect Manager. Our mission is to help customers realize the full value of GitLab’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform by advising on architecture, running technical evaluations such as proofs of value, and guiding customers through their digital transformation. We work closely with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, and Marketing, collaborating asynchronously across regions to share best practices, create reusable technical collateral, and act as the voice of the customer. We are focused on helping customers modernize end-to-end software delivery, adopt GitLab at scale, and navigate a rapidly evolving AI and DevSecOps landscape.

Please submit your resume in English.

To learn more about our team and office culture in Tokyo, Japan, visit the following links. 
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/tokyo
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Jobs/KnowBe4-Ad-Tokyo-Jobs-EI_IE969384.0,7_KO8,10_IL.11,16_IS5263.htm

The Customer Success Architect is a key member of the Customer Success team, responsible for providing strategic technical guidance and expertise to ensure customers achieve maximum value from our KnowBe4 platform. You will work closely with enterprise and strategic  customers, Customer Success Managers (CSMs), and internal teams to design and optimize customer solutions, aligning our platform capabilities with their business objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the technical expert and trusted advisor to customers throughout their lifecycle.
• Collaborate with CSMs to understand customer goals and develop tailored solution architectures.
• Lead technical discovery sessions to identify customer requirements and map them to platform capabilities.
• Assist with onboarding, implementation, and optimization of the platform, ensuring successful adoption.
• Provide hands-on technical support, troubleshooting, and guidance on best practices.
• Conduct regular technical reviews and health checks to ensure customers are maximizing the platform's potential.
• Advocate for customer needs by collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Support teams.
• Develop and deliver training materials, documentation, and knowledge base articles to support customer enablement.
• Stay updated on product enhancements and industry trends to provide customers with cutting-edge solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in Customer Success, Solutions Architecture, or Professional Services roles, preferably within a SaaS environment. 
• Strong technical background with expertise in [relevant technologies, e.g., APIs, cloud platforms, security solutions, etc.]. 
• Experience in leading workshops, facilitating meetings, and driving executive alignment. 
• Proven ability to architect and deploy enterprise-level solutions
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and sales methodologies
• Experience with Gmail and Google Docs
• Experience with MS Office (Word and Excel)
• Experience with web browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc.)
• Experience with customer success platforms (e.g., Gainsight, ChurnZero) is a plus.
• Customer-focused mindset with a passion for enabling customer success.
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communications
• Fluent in Japanese
• Basic English reading and writing desirable
• Highly organized and result-oriented
• Excellent time management and organization skills
• Can demonstrate technical troubleshooting and analysis ability
• Can demonstrate integrity, accountability, respect and commitment
• Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects simultaneously
• Strong collaborative and team work skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to build rapport with customers via phone, email and video conferencing

Summary

As a Senior Technical Account Manager (TAM), you’ll be responsible for planning and executing strategies that drive customer adoption and use of the Wiz platform for our largest customers. 

Your cloud and security industry expertise will allow you to provide impactful guidance to customers throughout their Wiz onboarding and operationalization journey. You will serve as the bridge between customers and the broader Wiz team –  you'll streamline collaboration between Product Management, Sales, Engineering, and Support to deliver a cohesive customer experience for our most demanding customers. 

Strong technical expertise and customer-facing skills will be essential in addressing the needs of our customers. Your understanding of how large organizations leverage cloud, security, and SaaS technologies will allow you to empathize with customer personas and drive effective conversations with customer personas at all levels. 

What you’ll do: 

• Be a Wiz Product and Cloud Security Expert –  Serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout your customers’ Wiz journey
• Confidently navigate customers through the deployment, configuration, and operationalization of Wiz using best practices and your existing cloud-security domain expertise. 
• Serve as the primary technical contact for your book of customers, helping to solve technical questions and issues as they arise via email, Slack, and support tickets.  
• Act proactively, by leading the customer on a journey to full adoption and value and promoting excellence in addressing Cloud, Code and Runtime security risk  
• Continuously monitor news related to emerging cloud security threats and further develop your domain expertise
• Continuously stay abreast and enabled on new Wiz features and functionality 
• Drive Adoption, Business Value Realization, and Customer Satisfaction – Ensure your book of customers are delighted and seeing value from their Wiz purchase 
• Help customers develop success plans with measurable goals throughout the Wiz lifecycle that align with their organizational security and compliance objectives
• Act proactively, by leading the customer on a journey to full adoption and value, and promoting excellence in addressing Cloud, Code, and Runtime security risk  
• Use your expert knowledge of the Wiz platform and features to accelerate your customers’ success and attainment of value  
• Assist customers in project managing Wiz adoption and operationalization goals across business units and stakeholders
• Help unblock adoption as necessary by working with both internal and external parties to resolve people, process, and technology issues
• Drive and track your customers’ achievement of business goals and realization of value through Wiz 
• Report progress and results to key Wiz and customer stakeholders in executive-friendly communications 
• Actively drive value based conversations with customer executives and provide meaningful contributions to QBRs/executive briefings 
• Advocate for your Customers – Understand, document, and represent your customers’ needs to internal Wiz stakeholders
• Capture feature requests/adoption blockers and liaise with Product and Engineering teams to determine priority and alternative solutions

Manage your book of business and support revenue objectives - Support and manage a book of up to 10 strategic customers, depending on size and complexityIdentify opportunities for expansion and assist in securing renewals in partnership with sales and renewals teams. 

• Drive towards utilization/adoption targets for your book of business 
• Identify, document, and action on risks (e.g, satisfaction/churn/renewal/health) in customer engagements 
• Develop and cultivate close relationships with key customer contacts, from C-level to practitioner, to understand sentiment and drive forward key Wiz objectives 

Help build and scale a world-class TAM organization at a hyper-growth company – assist in driving improvements in Wiz’s TAM motion and have an impact across GTM teams Develop documentation, mentor TAMs, and develop an area of technical subject-matter expertise 

• Partner cross-functionally with internal teams to improve processes 
• Assist other TAMs with technical escalations 
• Be a cloud security thought-leader by participating in industry events and contributing to community posts and blogs

What you’ll bring

• Overall
• 8-12yrs of experience in technical customer-facing roles, ideally supporting a cloud / cloud-security product
• Examples include: Senior Technical Account Manager, Senior Professional Services Engineer, Principal Solutions Engineer, Senior Technical Support Specialist, Lead Customer Success Engineer, or Sr. Architect. 
• B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or similar field, or equivalent advanced experience.
• Demonstrated ability to manage nebulous job responsibilities while actively improving and developing net-new processes 

• Technical Knowledge
• Expert understanding of cloud services and architecture of at least 2 CSPs (AWS/GCP/Azure/OCI) – ideally, you have multiple advanced CSP certifications (e.g., Certified Solutions Architect - Professional, Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional).
• Deep familiarity with cloud-security best practices, advanced threat models, and complex CNAPP use cases. Ideally, you have a security certification (e.g., CISSP, CCSP) and extensive experience helping organizations address complex cloud-security challenges.
• Practical experience deploying and operationalizing containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes), as well as addressing corresponding security considerations 
• Practical experience deploying and operationalizing DevOps technologies – CI/CD, Version Control Systems, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), etc., and their security implications.
• Expert-level familiarity with Linux and Windows operating system security concepts, and advanced troubleshooting experience
• Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose and resolve highly complex technical issues, driving resolution across intricate and often ambiguous internal and external structures.
• Demonstrated ability and commitment to continuously learn and master novel and emerging cloud/security technologies.

• Account Management and Customer Success
• Proven track record of successfully managing a book of business with 5+ complex enterprise/strategic customers.
• Proven track record of building and maintaining executive-level relationships with enterprise/strategic clients, driving significant customer outcomes, and consistently exceeding performance targets.
• Expert ability to continuously enable customers on the Wiz platform and proactively assist them in solving problems, ranging from trivial to highly complex and strategic.
• Willingness to work across multiple communication channels and platforms to assist your customers - e.g., responding to Slack messages / responding to emails / responding to support tickets
• Advanced ability to use data and systems (e.g., CRM, log analysis tools) to monitor customer health, identify complex trends, and strategically inform customer success and retention initiatives.
• Extensive experience crafting customer-facing artifacts and decks 
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of an organization, including C-suite executives.

As a Senior Partner Solutions Architect, you will be part of the sales team responsible for supporting our Global Channel Resellers/Partners in Japan, reporting to the Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture APJ. You will work closely with partner-facing account reps and directly with our partners to build and execute the Wiz + Partner technical strategy and solutions from the ground up.   

As the go-to technical expert, you will help partners rethink how they approach cloud security and how they set a preference with customers for the Wiz + Partner solution. You will be the trusted technical advisor to your partners for all things related to cloud security across AWS, Azure, GCP, and other CSPs.   

At Wiz, we are passionate about technical sales and helping our partners and their customers achieve maximum value from our solution. We believe this all starts with a team effort working very closely with all resources available at Wiz and by teaming with the best partners in the world.   

WHAT YOU’LL DO  

• Deep expertise in building and delivering technical results and solutions with national security (reselling) partners.    
• Ability to deliver world-class demo and training experience to our Partners.   
• Excellence in communication and have experience of speaking at conferences   
• Thrive in a creative technical role , assisting partners in building a technical business delivery model.    
• Experience in a sales engineering role delivering solutions to C-level executives at Technology Partners.    
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time on occasion. 

WHAT YOU’LL BRING  

• Cloud security experience. 
• AWS/Azure/GCP hands-on experience.    
• Strong operating system, virtual machine, and container knowledge.    
• DevOps experience and familiarity with the CI/CD process.     
• Understanding of cloud identity, access, certificates, and keys.   

BONUS POINTS  

• Experience with traditional CSPM tools.   
• SaaS Selling experience.   
• CSP Certifications.   
• Knowledge of risk-based security assessments and frameworks.

Strategic Partner Manager – Japan

Summary

We’re looking for a Strategic Partner Manager and CSP engagement specialist to lead and scale our Cloud Service Provider strategy in Japan. In this role, you will report to the Global Director of Cloud Alliances and work closely with the Japan Country leadership, Sales, Channel, and Global Alliance teams to build scalable routes to market through AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Japan.

You will be responsible for designing, building, and executing a Japan-specific CSP plan aligned to local revenue goals and co-sell priorities. This includes executive engagement, marketplace strategy, enablement programs, and scalable revenue-generating initiatives tailored to the Japanese ecosystem.

Fluency in Japanese and English will be a must for this role.

What You’ll Do

• Own and execute the Japan CSP business plan across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud
• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with Japan-based CSP stakeholders across sales, marketplace, partner, and technical teams
• Align closely with Wiz Japan Sales and Channel leadership to drive co-sell pipeline creation and acceleration
• Develop and execute a Japan marketplace strategy (CPPO, MPO, MACC alignment where relevant)
• Identify top pipeline opportunities and map ideal customer profiles to CSP field sellers and marketplace teams
• Lead account-based co-sell strategy and deliver the “better together” narrative in Japanese to CSP field teams through enablement sessions, QBRs, and local events
• Partner with CSP solution architect and technical communities to align commercial and technical motions
• Plan and support Japan-based QBRs, EBCs, and executive briefings with CSPs and joint customers
• Collaborate with Japan Channel and Distribution partners to develop triparty demand generation and transactional strategies
• Support and represent Wiz at strategic and local CSP field events across Japan
• Identify, create, and promote Japan-specific vertical win stories and localized use cases

What You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience building and managing partnerships with at least one CSP (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud), preferably within Japan
• 10+ years of experience in SaaS GTM, alliances, or channel roles
• Deep understanding of the Japan CSP ecosystem, marketplace programs, and co-sell motions
• Experience working within the Japanese business culture and navigating consensus-driven decision making
• Strong knowledge of marketplace constructs (CPPO, DSOR, DCPO, Private Offers, reseller models, etc.)
• Fluent Japanese (business-level) and professional English communication skills
• Process-oriented with strong CRM hygiene (SFDC) and CSP pipeline management portal experience
• Proven ability to consistently exceed revenue targets
• Strong executive presence and ability to build trust across cultures
• Team-first mindset — viewed as a trusted advisor by Field Sales teams
• Willingness to travel domestically across Japan (up to 40%)

Bonus Points

• Experience working with Japan-based SIs and GSIs
• Experience working with Japanese distributors and resellers
• Experience working with cloud-native consulting partners in Japan
• Security / Cloud Security domain expertise
• Experience in high-growth SaaS start-ups
• CSP certifications (Cloud Practitioner or equivalent)
• Experience with Tackle.io and SFDC
• Existing relationships within AWS Japan, Microsoft Japan, or Google Cloud Japan

About Aim Security

As part of Cato Networks, Aim Security extends the Cato SASE platform into the SaaS layer, giving enterprises real-time visibility, control, and protection across all SaaS applications. Aim goes beyond traditional CASB and SSPM solutions by addressing modern SaaS-native threats such as identity abuse, insider risks, misconfigurations, and sensitive data exposure. By combining Aim’s SaaS security innovation with Cato’s converged networking and security cloud, we are delivering the industry’s most comprehensive enterprise security platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead and drive technical validation of Aim Security solutions to prospects
• Deliver compelling product demonstrations and presentations that are grounded in aligning to the customer’s business objectives
• Partner with Account Executives in acquisition of new business by supporting technical pre-sales activities such as technical product demonstrations, presentations and workshops 
• Serve as the primary technical resource throughout the sales cycle, addressing objections and providing technical guidance.
• Respond to functional and technical elements of RFIs/RFPs
• Communicate feedback, requests and technical perspectives on product evolution to Product Management teams
• Stay up to date on AI security trends, emerging technologies, and competitor offerings.
• Travel throughout sales territory 

Requirements 

• 4+ years experience as a Sales Engineer, Solution Architect, or technical pre-sales role, preferably selling and supporting Cybersecurity SaaS products to Enterprise customers
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Familiar with Value-Selling Methodologies like MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, SPICED
• Conduct discovery calls and technical deep dives for use case mapping and POV scoping
• Strong technical background with demonstrated understanding in several of the following areas: SaaS, AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Rest APIs, SSO, SIEM, cybersecurity frameworks, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), Kubernetes

• Strong presentation skills and written communication in emails, RFPs, and reports
• Organized, analytical, creative and adaptive in approach and finding solutions
• Start-up experience preferred: Demonstrated success in early-stage companies, and fast paced environments with limited formal processes.

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The Netskope Channel Solutions Engineer will come on board with the full support of the executive team.   This is an amazing opportunity for the sales professional who has a history of completely dominating their territory and who wants to make an impact on building the next iconic cloud security company. 

Responsibilities include:

As a Netskope Channel Solutions Engineer you will be responsible for:

• Build relationships with key partner base and their SEs
• Own and drive technical enablement activities for key and assigned partner base
• Educate customers on the ongoing trends and challenges that are driving the need for cloud security and help channel understand where Netskope addresses these challenges
• Deliver effective demos, best practices session on UCs, deployments & workshops as needed
• Provide on the job training for partner SEs by allowing partner SE to shadow presentations and evaluation installations.
• Help partners create evaluation test plans with customers that highlight the strengths of our platform to position Netskope as the clear cloud security leader
• Present at channel-driven marketing activities as-needed basis.
• Assist in the selling effort to partner technical resources during new partner recruitment
• Work with channel partners to proactively expand our awareness and install base within existing accounts.
• Collaborates with other SEs, sales teams, and trainers

Job Requirements:

• 7+ years of relevant experience as a Solutions/System Engineer with a proven track record and demonstrable skills at presenting technical information at the business executive level or at the architect level
• Proven track record using it to help drive revenue
• Demonstrable experience with systems installation, configuration and administration UNIX/Linux and Windows-based systems
• Proficient in mobile device technologies (MDM/MAM) and OS such as Android, iOS, and Windows Mobile
• Knowledge of certificates, key management systems, HSM and related protocols
• Proven hands-on experience with information security solutions such as Web Proxy, NGFW, Security Gateways, SIEMs, SAML/SSO, DLP, Data security and protection technologies such as HSM, Tokenization & encryption gateways
• Experience working with Active Directory Services including ADFS, working knowledge of Azure AD is desired
• Knowledgeable with application programming; such as REST/SOAP API’s, JSON and enterprise architectures
• Working knowledge of the broader threat landscape and the ability to distill technology trends, and explain complex behaviors in simple terms

Education:

• Bachelor Degree

This role requires a strong blend of technical expertise, customer-facing acumen, and solution-oriented problem solving. The Data AS Consultant will work closely with Sales & Account Managers to provide technical leadership and solution design for highly consultative enterprise projects. It is a revenue-generating pre-sales position focused on enabling technical adoption and driving customer success for both new and expansion opportunities.

This role reports directly to the Team Manager, DSI, with a dotted line to the Regional Head of Japan.

Responsibilities

Technical Consultation & Solution Design

• Serve as a trusted technical advisor to enterprise customers, translating business goals into scalable, production-grade technical architectures.
  
  
• Design and document data integration architectures leveraging Similarweb’s APIs, DaaS feeds, and platform products to meet enterprise data requirements.
  
  
• Architect end-to-end data delivery pipelines into client ecosystems (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, S3, or Google Cloud Platform).
  
  
• Provide technical workshops and POCs, guiding clients on ingestion, normalization, and querying best practices.
  
  
• Develop Statements of Work (SOWs), technical proposals, and detailed integration documentation to accelerate collaboration between internal teams and customers.
  
  

Technical Skill Execution Examples

1. Integration & Data Delivery
   
   
• Role: Design and implement integration workflows delivering Similarweb’s data via API, S3, Snowflake, or GCP Storage, tailored to customer infrastructure.
  
  
• Technical Skills:
  
  
• Advanced SQL querying and performance tuning in Databricks / Snowflake
  
  
• Proficiency with data file formats (CSV, JSON, Parquet, Delta) and understanding the trade-offs between performance, compression, and schema evolution
  
  
• Strong knowledge of ETL design, data governance, and access control
  
  
• Outcome: Clients understand technical feasibility and best practices for incorporating Similarweb data into their analytical stack.
  
  
2. Data Quality, Coverage, and Scalability
   
   
• Role: Explain how data is collected, validated, deduplicated, and scaled across geographies and verticals, referencing internal reruns and benchmarks.
  
  
• Technical Skills: Understanding of data validation, sampling frameworks, distributed storage performance, and data versioning (e.g., Delta Lake advantages).
  
  
• Outcome: Clients gain trust in data quality and scalability across enterprise-grade analytics environments.
  
  
3. Data Sampling & Proof-of-Concept Delivery
   
   
• Role: Generate and deliver custom data samples aligned with client use cases, whether via API queries, Parquet exports, Delta tables, or CSV snapshots.
  
  
• Technical Skills:
  
  
• Hands-on data extraction and transformation using SQL and Python
  
  
• Preparing data in optimal formats (e.g., Parquet v Delta)
  
  
• Managing delivery through multiple mechanisms: secure S3 share, Snowflake Data Share, API endpoints, or CSV download portals.
  
  
• Outcome: Clients can validate data structure, schema, and use-case fit before full-scale adoption.
  
  
4. Use Case Customization & Advanced Analytics
   
   
• Role: Demonstrate how Similarweb data can be enriched with client datasets (POS, CRM, or loyalty).
  
  
• Technical Skills: SQL and Python for data joins, REST and GraphQL APIs, JSON schema design, and familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for LLM integrations.
  
  
• Outcome: The client sees practical, technically sound pathways to integrating Similarweb data into their own analytical models and AI workflows.
  
  

Collaboration with Sales & Customer Teams

• Partner with Enterprise Sales Managers to qualify and design technical solutions during the sales process.
  
  
• Work with Enterprise Account Managers to drive expansion and deepen platform adoption through technical enablement.
  
  
• Collaborate closely with Customer Success and Delivery teams to ensure smooth technical transitions from pre-sales to production.
  
  
• Create reusable demos, templates, and data delivery playbooks for use across GCR teams.
  
  
• Participate in strategic account planning and contribute feedback to product and data engineering based on customer needs.
  
  

Market & Product Expertise

• Stay up to date with AI/LLM data standards, data engineering best practices, and cloud-native architectures.
  
  
• Provide feedback to product and data engineering on API performance, schema design, and data format optimization.
  
  
• Maintain familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP), OpenAPI, and emerging standards for data interoperability and contextual AI integrations.
  
  

Project Support & Technical Governance

• Lead technical scoping and architecture reviews during the pre-sales phase.
  
  
• Oversee sample generation, performance validation, and schema testing.
  
  
• Provide escalation support on data performance, pipeline reliability, and delivery troubleshooting.
  
  
• Ensure solutions align with data security, privacy, and compliance best practices.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
  
  
• 5+ years in pre-sales, solution architecture, or data consulting, with a strong focus on technical delivery.
• Technical Expertise:
  
  
• Data Architecture & Integration: Deep understanding of cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) and data warehousing frameworks (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift).
  
  
• SQL & Data Modeling: Strong query and optimization skills for data analysis and transformation.
  
  
• APIs & Data Exchange: REST and GraphQL API fluency, JSON schema design, authentication (OAuth 2.0, JWT).
  
  
• File Formats: Deep understanding of CSV, JSON, Parquet, and Delta file formats—knowing when to use each for efficiency, scalability, or incremental updates.
  
  
• Data Sample Delivery: Ability to create, test, and deliver sample datasets across APIs, S3, and warehouse sharing mechanisms.
  
  
• MCP & AI Integrations: Awareness of Model Context Protocol, LLM context injection, and structured data retrieval patterns.
  
  
• Proven experience translating business requirements into technical solutions for large enterprise data ecosystems.
  
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills—able to bridge the gap between technical and commercial teams.
  
  
• Fluent in Japanese and English (written and spoken) with experience serving enterprise clients.
• Strong problem-solving, self-management, and team collaboration skills.

About Appier

Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

The Impact You’ll Make at Appier 

We’re looking for a Staff/Senior Machine Learning Platform Engineer to join our Machine Learning Platform Team, which powers end-to-end infrastructure for model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring at scale. Our platform supports daily execution of hundreds of ML models and processes billions of data records across batch and streaming pipelines.
In this role, you’ll shape the architecture and core components of our ML platform—covering batch (Spark), streaming (Flink), job orchestration (Argo on Kubernetes), and infrastructure tools—while ensuring the platform remains robust, scalable, and developer-friendly. You’ll also champion best practices and modern development tools including LLM-based programming assistants.

What You’ll Work On

• Architect, implement, and scale batch (Spark) and streaming (Flink) pipelines that process billions of records daily for ML training and evaluation.
• Design and operate robust ML job execution frameworks for training, inference, and post-processing.
• Build and maintain internal API servers and developer tools to orchestrate ML jobs on Kubernetes (via Argo Workflows, Helm, Terraform).
• Design and monitor data infrastructure using ClickHouse and PostgreSQL.
• Ensure high availability and observability through monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and engineers to deliver reliable and efficient ML platform capabilities.
• Actively adopt and promote the use of LLM-based tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT) to accelerate development, documentation, and debugging.
• Mentor junior engineers and help evolve team engineering culture and standards.

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s preferred.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in data systems, machine learning infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• Strong coding proficiency in Python and/or Java, with experience building large-scale production systems.
• Practical experience with Spark, Flink, Kubernetes (GKE), and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform and Helm.
• Experience managing high-throughput data infrastructure using ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, or similar systems.
• Deep understanding of ML pipelines and distributed job execution in production environments.
• Proven ability to apply LLM-based tools (claude code, codex) to boost engineering productivity.
• Strong ownership, architectural thinking, and ability to lead cross-functional platform projects.

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About the role

As an Applied AI team member at Anthropic, you will be a Pre-Sales architect focused on becoming a trusted technical advisor helping large enterprises understand the value of Claude and paint the vision on how they can successfully integrate and deploy Claude into their technology stack. You'll combine your deep technical expertise with customer-facing skills to architect innovative LLM solutions that address complex business challenges while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability.

Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you'll guide customers from initial technical discovery through successful deployment. You'll leverage your expertise to help customers understand Claude's capabilities, develop evals, and design scalable architectures that maximize the value of our AI systems.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with account executives across Japan to deeply understand customer requirements and translate them into technical solutions, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical implementation

• Serve as the primary technical advisor to enterprise customers across Japan throughout their Claude adoption journey, from discovery to initial evaluation through deployment. You will need to coordinate internally across multiple teams & stakeholders to drive customer success

• Support customers building with both the Claude API and Claude for Work 

• Create and deliver compelling technical content tailored to different audiences across Japan. You will need to be able to spread the gamut from technical deep dives for engineering & development teams up to business value focused conversations with executives

• Guide technical architecture decisions and help customers across Japan integrate Claude effectively into their existing technology stack

• Help customers develop evaluation frameworks to measure Claude's performance for their specific use cases

• Identify common integration patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams

• Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and relationship building

• Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM capabilities and implementation patterns

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in technical customer-facing roles such as Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, or Technical Account Manager

• Native-level Japanese fluency and business-level English required

• Experience working with enterprise customers, navigating complex buying cycles involving multiple stakeholders

• Exceptional ability to build relationships with and communicate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders to include C-suite executives, engineering & IT teams, and more

• Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate customer requirements between technical and business stakeholders

• Experience designing scalable cloud architectures and integrating with enterprise systems

• Comfortable with python

• Familiarity with common LLM frameworks and tools or a background in machine learning or data science

• Excitement for engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

• A love of teaching, mentoring, and helping others succeed

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey complicated topics in easily understandable terms to a diverse set of external and internal stakeholders. You enjoy engaging in cross-organizational collaboration, working through trade-offs, and balancing competing priorities

• Passion for thinking creatively about how to use technology in a way that is safe and beneficial, and ultimately furthers the goal of advancing safe AI systems

THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a highly technical team member to join our team, able to articulate high-level business benefits to the various target audience, who is creative, innovative and results-oriented willing to go the extra mile in a fast-paced environment.  

As a Solutions Architect, you are an integral part of the organization.  You will work closely with WW pre-sales teams to assist with opportunities and with more complex projects where your skills and subject matter expertise may be needed to help drive and raise awareness, architect and design solutions for our customer, prospects and technology partners.  In addition, you will work closely with product management, marketing, field sales teams, and engineering to influence the product strategy and roadmap, develop collateral, whitepapers, solution guides and compelling demos within our Innovation Solutions lab. You will act as a trusted advisor to customers, technology partners, and represent Netskope at industry events and conferences as needed. This is a highly visible and strategic position both within the company and across the industry-wide and a great opportunity to advance your career and make an impactful contribution.  

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Work directly with WW field teams, customers and technology partners to map business and technical requirements to expertly design technology solutions that help meet or exceed customer needs
• Help drive technical assessment, qualification and engagement
• Build, manage and maintain global solution labs to assist field teams with POCs, demos, solution validations and testing
• Manage all aspects of our Innovation solutions lab used for customer demos, partners, and proof-of-concepts
• In-depth product presentations, demonstrations, and management of prospect evaluations
• Design interoperability/integration solutions with adjacent technology partners
• Help raise awareness with the technical communities (SE, support, customer success) at technology partner, systems integration and services partners by training and collaboration
• Work closely with various Netskope teams to build solutions, collateral, and demos that can be leveraged by Netskope, channels, technology and SI partners
• Author blogs, whitepaper and solution guides
• Articulating high-level benefits of the Netskope solution to a target audience (Including Senior Security Management, CISO, CSO, and CIOs)
• Represent Netskope at partner and industry events as an SME (Subject Matter Expert) and User Groups when needed

WHAT YOU OFFER

• 10+ years of deployment experience in similar role or experience in a technical leadership role
• Previous experience as a solution architect, consultant or technical marketing engineer building, architecting or deploying security solutions
• Proven track record using it to help drive revenue.
• Working knowledge of the broader threat landscape and the ability to distill technology trends, and explain complex behaviors in simple terms
• Proven experience working with customers and partners in successful design and deployment of solutions
• Ability to juggle and successfully drive projects with customers, prospects, and partners.
• Experience with cloud computing solutions implementations including Microsoft Office 365 and Azure, Google, AWS, Box, and Salesforce, etc.
• Proven hands-on experience with information security solutions such as Web Proxy, NGFW, Security Gateways, SIEMs, SAML/SSO, DLP, Data security and protection technologies such as HSM, Tokenization & encryption gateways.  
• Experience working with Active Directory Services including ADFS, working knowledge of Azure AD is desired
• Knowledge of web application programming XML, REST/SOAP API’s, REST, JSON,
• Strong knowledge of LDAP, Active Directory, SAML, SSO, RBAC
• Experience in cloud computing based services architecture, technical design and implementations including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models.
• Strong knowledge of Security Architecture, Design and Operations
• Knowledge of security and cryptography.
• Knowledge of cloud/virtualization technologies, such as VMware vSphere, EC2, Xen, KVM, OpenStack
• 2+ years of SaaS implementation experience is strongly preferred

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

• Prior experience in early stage startups
• Self-starter that can work independently and exercise judgment on a regular basis with minimal oversight along with a ‘can do’ attitude with a willingness to take a hands-on approach.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills, both internally and externally
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Must be willing and able to travel

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

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About the Role

Technical Account Managers (TAMs) are at the core of shaping the Netskope customer experience. As a TAM, you’ll be responsible for driving technical success across the customer journey, ensuring organizations realize the full value of the Netskope Cloud Security platform.

You’ll partner with customers to understand their business goals, cybersecurity strategy, and technical architecture, then guide them through adoption and operational maturity using tailored value realization plans. Acting as a trusted advisor, you’ll align customer objectives with the Netskope roadmap, share best practices, and connect them with the right resources across our organization.

Successful candidates are proactive, customer-centric team players with the empathy to build strong relationships and the technical acumen to provide strategic guidance. This role blends technical expertise with business insight, helping drive customer loyalty, retention, and growth.

Typical TAM activities

• Customer Success Planning: Partner with the Customer Success Manager to define and execute success plans, value realization roadmaps, and business reviews.
• Trusted Technical Advisor: Build strong relationships with customer champions and executives, guiding them on Netskope best practices, policies, and architecture design.
• Adoption & Enablement: Coach customer teams to become self-sufficient in day-to-day operations by providing enablement sessions, configuration guidance, and best practice recommendations.
• Health Monitoring & Optimization: Conduct tenant health checks, track adoption metrics, and proactively recommend improvements to strengthen the customer’s security posture.
• Issue & Escalation Management: Coordinate with Support and Engineering to resolve technical issues, ensuring customer advocacy and clear communication throughout escalations.
• Insights & Best Practices: Share new use cases, lessons learned, and optimization opportunities with customers and across the Netskope community.
• Product Alignment & Feedback: Champion customer needs with Product Management and Engineering; provide feedback on features and roadmap relevance.
• Technology Strategy Alignment: Partner with CSMs and customer stakeholders to ensure Netskope capabilities support and align with the customer’s evolving security and business objectives.
• Reporting & Communication: Deliver regular status updates and executive-level summaries to highlight progress, risks, and outcomes.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Orchestrate resources across Netskope and the customer organization to drive successful adoption and long-term retention.

Job Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Professional Services Consultant or Technical Account Manager, with a proven track record of success and strong presentation skills at both the executive and architect levels.
• Solid knowledge and prior experience with network security technologies such as Proxies, Next-Generation Firewalls, SSL/IPSec, VPNs, SSO, DLP, and Encryption Gateways.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, MDM, and Cloud APIs.
• Experience working with large enterprise customers (Fortune 500 experience a plus).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (e.g., Perl, Python).
• Familiarity with regulatory and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, PCI, PII, ITAR, GLBA, SOX).
• Knowledge of data encryption technologies, SIEM, and load balancing.
• Strong background in network architecture.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; relevant experience will also be considered

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FEQ127R214

As a Partner Solutions Architect you will work with Databricks' Consulting and System Integrator (C&SI) partners, teammates, and with the technical and sales team members who work directly with our customers. You will develop 'technical champions' within our top C&SI Partners, providing enablement on technical matters related to the Databricks product. Working with our partners, you will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our Databricks Data Intelligence Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. As a member of our team, you will exercise and develop expertise in those areas, using open-source projects such as Apache Spark™, MLflow, and Delta Lake; and major public cloud infrastructure and services. the product. You will use this expertise to become a trusted advisor to C&SI partners. You will report to the Senior Director, APJ PS.

The impact you will have:

• Provide partners with the level of enablement they need to assist their clients in evaluating and adopting Databricks including hands-on Apache Spark™ programming and integration with the wider cloud ecosystem
• Engage with the partner technical community by leading workshops, seminars, and meet-ups
• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design and will share this with our partner network
• Show expertise by producing creative technical solutions and blog post

What we look for:

• 5+ years of pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients or partners across a variety of industry markets
• Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either data engineering or data science
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience developing architectures within a public cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Coding experience in SQL, Python, Scala, or Java
• Expertise in at least one of the following:
• Data Engineering technologies (Ex: Apache Spark™, Hadoop, Kafka)
• Data Warehousing (Ex: SQL, OLTP/OLAP/DSS)
• Data Science and Machine Learning technologies (Ex: pandas, scikit-learn, HPO)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
• Written and verbal level fluency in Japanese and English

Benefits

• Benefits allowance
• Equity awards
• Enhanced Parental Leaves
• Fitness reimbursement
• Annual career development fund
• Home office & work headphones reimbursement
• Business travel accident insurance
• Mental wellness resources
• Employee referral bonus

CSQ327R31

At Databricks we are on a mission to empower our customers to solve the world's toughest data problems by utilising the Intelligence platform. As a Delivery Solutions Architect (DSA), you will play an important role during this journey. You will collaborate with our sales and field engineering teams to accelerate the adoption and growth of the Databricks platform in your customers. As a DSA, you will help ensure customer success by increasing focus and technical accountability to our most complex customers who need guidance to accelerate usage on Databricks workloads that they have already selected, helping them maximise the value they get of our platform and the return on invesment.

This is a hybrid technical and commercial role. It is commercial in the sense that you will drive growth in your assigned customers and use cases through leading your customers' stakeholders, building executive relationships, orchestration of other focused/specialized teams within Databricks, and creating and driving plans and strategies for Databricks colleagues to build upon. This is in parallel to being technical, with expectations being that you become the post-sale technical lead across all Databricks products. This requires you to use your skills and technical credibility to engage and communicate at all levels with an organisation. You will report directly to a Field Engineering Director in Japan

The impact you will have:

• You will engage with the Solutions Architect to understand the full Use Case Demand Plan for prioritised customers.
• Lead the Post-Technical Win technical account strategy and execution plan for the majority of Databricks Use Cases within our most strategic accounts.
• Be the accountable technical leader assigned to specific Use Cases and customer(s) across multiple selling teams and internal stakeholders, creating certainty from uncertainty and driving onboarding, enablement, success, go-live and healthy consumption of the workloads where the customer has made the decision to consume Databricks. 
• You will be the first contact for any technical issues or questions related to production/go live status of agreed upon Use Cases within an account, oftentimes services multiple use cases within the largest and most complex organizations. 
• Leverage both Shared Services, User Education, Onboarding/Technical Services and Support resources, along with escalating to expert level technical experts to build the right tasks that are beyond your scope of activities or expertise. 
• Create, own and execute a point-of-view as to how key use cases can be accelerated into production, coordinating with Professional Services resources on the delivery of PS Engagement proposals.
• Navigate Databricks Product and Engineering teams for New Product Innovations, Private Previews and Upgrade needs. 
• Develop an execution plan that covers all activities of all customer-facing technical roles and teams to cover the below work streams:
• Main use cases moving from ‘win’ to production
• Enablement / user growth plan
• Product adoption (strategy and activities to increase adoption of Databricks’ Lakehouse vision)
• Organic needs for current investment Eg. Cloud Cost control, Tuning & Optimization
• Executive and operational governance
• Provide internal and external updates - KPI reporting on the status of usage and customer health, covering investment status, important risks, product adoption and use case progression - to your Technical GM.

What we look for:

• 8+ years of experience where you have been accountable for technical project / program delivery within the domain of Data and AI and where you can contribute to technical debate and design choices with our customers.
• Programming experience in Python, SQL or Scala 
• Experience in a customer-facing pre-sales, technical architecture, customer success, or consulting role
• Understanding of solution architecture related distributed data systems
• A understanding of how to attribute business value and outcomes to specific project deliverables
• Technical program, or project management including account, stakeholder and resource management accountability
• Experience resolving complex and important escalation with senior customer executives
• Experience conducting open-ended discovery workshops,  creating strategic roadmaps, conducting business analysis and managing delivery of complex programmes/projects
• Track record of overachievement against quota, Goals or similar objective targets

CSQ227R244

As a Resident Solutions Architect (RSA) in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. RSAs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service. You will report to the Director, Professional Services.

The impact you will have:

• You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include building reference architectures, how-to's and production grade MVPs
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
• Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement strategic customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks
• Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
• You will work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer's needs
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues

What we look for:

• Experience with Big Data Technologies or Data science in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architecture or consulting role.
• Comfortable writing code in SQL, with proficiency in either Python or Scala.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud ecosystem (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience with developer operations and continuous integration/delivery for production deployments.
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines, preferably in data platform project
• Ability to communicate and collaborate in Japanese and English fluently to deliver domestic and overseas projects.

Req ID: FEQ427R123
Location: Tokyo, Japan

As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud), you will guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands-on environment throughout the sales process. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the Financial Services field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our The Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. You'll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems. You will report to the Senior Manager of Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
• Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
• Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups
• Together with your Account Executive, you will form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value

What we look for:

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
• Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
• Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
• Experience working with Enterprise Accounts
• Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English

Req ID: FEQ427R295
Location: Osaka, Japan

As a Pre‑sales Solutions Architect (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud) – Kansai Region, your mission will be to drive successful technical evaluations and solution designs for some of our focus customers in the Kansai region (Osaka/Kyoto) for Databricks Japan. You are passionate about data and AI, love getting hands‑on with technology, and enjoy communicating its value to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders. Partnering closely with Account Executives, you will lead the technical discovery, architecture design, and proof‑of‑concept phases, and act as a trusted advisor to our customers on their data and AI strategy. You will help customers realize tangible, data‑driven outcomes on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform by guiding data and AI teams to design, build, and operationalize solutions within their enterprise ecosystem. You will also be a key technical voice back into our product and field teams, championing customer needs from the Kansai market. You will report to the Manager of Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
• Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
• Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups
• Together with your Account Executive, you will form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value

What we look for:

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
• Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
• Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
• Experience working with Enterprise Accounts
• Written and verbal fluency in Japanese

Req ID: FEQ427R293
Location: Tokyo, Japan

As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud), you will guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands-on environment throughout the sales process. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the Retail/CPG field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our The Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. You'll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems. You will report to the Manager of Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
• Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
• Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups
• Together with your Account Executive, you will form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value

What we look for:

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
• Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
• Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
• Experience working with Enterprise Accounts
• Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English

Req ID: FEQ427R279
Location: Tokyo, Japan

At Databricks, our core values are at the heart of everything we do; a culture of proactiveness and customer‑centricity guides us to build a unified platform that makes data and AI accessible to everyone. In Japan Public Sector, we help central ministries, agencies, local governments, and public institutions use data and AI to deliver better, more trusted services to citizens.

You will be the senior technical leader for a set of strategic public sector accounts in Japan, using your executive‑level technical credibility and government expertise to shape and execute their data and AI strategy.

Reporting to: Director, Field Engineering, Japan

The impact you will have

• Own technical strategy for key Japan public sector customers, defining the target architecture and roadmap for their Databricks‑based data and AI platform.
• Lead solution design for priority government use cases (e.g., citizen 360 and eligibility, program analytics, smart infrastructure, cybersecurity, fraud/waste/abuse).
• Design for security and compliance, ensuring architectures meet public sector expectations on data residency, access control, governance, and auditability.
• Turn pilots into platforms, linking Databricks to visible mission outcomes and using those wins to drive expansion across bureaus, departments, and levels of government.
• Influence the ecosystem, collaborating with SIs, cloud providers, and public sector partners to deliver integrated, production‑grade solutions on Databricks.
• Mentor others, coaching Solutions Architects and partners on how to work effectively with Japan public sector stakeholders and patterns on the Databricks platform.

What we look for

• 10+ years in data platforms, analytics, or cloud architecture, including significant experience with public sector organizations in Japan.
• Proven ability to build trust with senior government stakeholders (CIO, CDO, chief architect, bureau/department leaders) and lead high‑stakes technical discussions in Japanese.
• Strong technical background in Data Engineering, Data Warehousing/Analytics, AI/ML, or Cloud Architecture, with a focus on solution design and platforms.
• Experience architecting data and analytics solutions for public sector use cases (e.g., citizen services, program analytics, public safety, infrastructure, or cybersecurity).
• Deep familiarity with Japan public sector decision‑making and delivery models, including how SIs and cloud providers support government projects.
• Excellent communication skills, able to translate mission and policy needs into clear technical approaches and explain them to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Language: Native‑level Japanese and business‑level English.

If you’re excited about helping Japan’s Public Sector use data and AI to deliver better outcomes – while setting the technical bar for our GTM in Japan – we’d love to hear from you. 

Req ID: FEQ427R294
Location: Tokyo, Japan

As a Pre-sales Solutions Architect (Analytics, AI, Big Data, Public Cloud), you will guide the technical evaluation phase in a hands-on environment throughout the sales process. You will be a technical advisor internally to the sales team, and work with the product team as an advocate of your customers in the Digital Native field. You will help our customers to achieve tangible data-driven outcomes through the use of our The Databricks Lakehouse Platform, helping data teams complete projects and integrate our platform into their enterprise Ecosystem. You'll grow as a leader in your field, while finding solutions to our customers' biggest challenges in big data, analytics, data engineering and data science problems. You will report to the Manager of Field Engineering.

The impact you will have:

• You will be a Big Data Analytics expert on aspects of architecture and design
• Lead your prospects through evaluating and adopting Databricks
• Support your customers by authoring reference architectures, how-tos, and demo applications
• Integrate Databricks with 3rd-party applications to support customer architectures
• Engage with the technical community by leading workshops, seminars and meet-ups
• Together with your Account Executive, you will form successful relationships with clients throughout your assigned territory to provide technical and business value

What we look for:

• Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
• Understanding of customer-facing pre-sales or consulting role with a core strength in either Data Engineering or Data Science advantageous
• Experience demonstrating technical concepts, including presenting and whiteboarding
• Experience designing and implementing architectures within public clouds (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience with Big Data technologies, including Apache Spark™, AI, Data Science, Data Engineering, Hadoop, Cassandra, and others.
• Fluent coding experience in Python or Scala implementing Apache Spark™, Java and R is also desirable
• Experience working with Enterprise Accounts
• Written and verbal fluency in Japanese and English

Summary/Objectives 

Are you someone who thrives in dynamic environments, has a passion for customer excellence and delivering exceptional outcomes?   We are searching for a business value professional to collaborate with a high-performing team of sales professionals.  If you have experience working as a Senior Value Engineer with a track record of successfully partnering with account teams, we would love to hear from you!  

This role requires an intellectually curious individual with keen business acumen.  You will articulate how the Tanium platform can drive positive business outcomes to internal and external stakeholders. This role is crucial to ensuring our customers unlock the full potential of our software solutions, driving value, and fostering long-term partnerships. 

Essential Job Functions 

• Collaborate closely with account teams to identify a value delivery strategy for key accounts. 

• Engage with customers to identify, understand, and quantify their unique challenges and potential benefits, aligned against their strategic initiatives.   

• Define and communicate the Tanium value proposition in alignment with customer objectives. 

• Lead business value reviews / business cases, and effectively communicate the realized value and potential economic benefits of new opportunities. 

• Create and deliver boardroom-quality, executive documents, and presentations. 

• Work collaboratively with product and engineering teams to tailor solutions that meet the specific needs of customers and prospects. 

• Provide guidance on best practices and innovative approaches to maximize the value of Tanium solutions. 

• Act as a subject matter expert on our solutions within our customer’s business, remaining informed about industry trends and advancements. 

• Initiate and contribute to thought leadership projects. 

• Provide training and workshops for Tanium colleagues to improve their skills in uncovering opportunities, and their knowledge of business value & customer excellence. 

• Make a positive impact on the future of the value engineering practice at Tanium, by creating improved methods and tools for a stronger value-based selling adoption. 

Minimum & Preferred Job Qualifications 

Experience 

• 8+ years of experience in value engineering, management consulting, financial / investment analysis, solution architecture, or a related customer-facing role within the software industry. 

• This is an individual contributor role.  

• Knowledge and experience in value-based-selling methodologies. 

• Proven ability to lead complex cross functional projects. 

• Ability to quantify value, create and deliver dynamic and impactful presentations and establish strong presence to executives.  

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing, global environment. 

• Strong problem solving and facilitation skills 

Education 

• Bachelor’s Degree required. 

• MBA or CPA/public accounting background is a plus 

About Tanium 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Taking care of our team members 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

For more information on how Tanium processes your personal data, please see our Privacy Policy

Summary/Objectives 

Are you someone who thrives in dynamic environments, has a passion for customer excellence and delivering exceptional outcomes?   We are searching for a business value professional to collaborate with a high-performing team of sales professionals.  If you have experience working as a Value Engineer with a track record of successfully partnering with account teams, we would love to hear from you!  

This role requires an intellectually curious individual with keen business and financial acumen.  You will articulate how the Tanium platform can drive positive business outcomes to internal and external stakeholders. This role is crucial to ensuring our customers unlock the full potential of our software solutions, driving value, and fostering long-term partnerships.   

Essential Job Functions 

• Collaborate closely with account teams to identify a value delivery strategy for key accounts. 

• Engage with customers to identify, understand, and quantify their unique challenges and potential benefits, aligned against their strategic initiatives.   

• Define and communicate the Tanium value proposition in alignment with customer objectives. 

• Lead business value reviews / business cases, and effectively communicate the realized value and potential economic benefits of new opportunities. 

• Create and deliver boardroom-quality, executive documents, and presentations. 

• Work collaboratively with product and engineering teams to tailor solutions that meet the specific needs of customers and prospects. 

• Provide guidance on best practices and innovative approaches to maximize the value of Tanium solutions. 

• Act as a subject matter expert on our solutions within our customer’s business, remaining informed about industry trends and advancements. 

• Initiate and contribute to thought leadership projects. 

• Provide training and workshops for Tanium colleagues to improve their skills in uncovering opportunities, and their knowledge of business value & customer excellence. 

• Make a positive impact on the future of the value engineering practice at Tanium, by creating improved methods and tools for a stronger value-based selling adoption. 

Minimum & Preferred Job Qualifications 

Experience 

• 3+ years of experience in value engineering, management consulting, financial / investment analysis, solution architecture, or a related customer-facing role within the software industry. 

• This is an individual contributor role.  

• Knowledge and experience in value-based-selling methodologies. 

• Proven ability to lead complex cross functional projects. 

• Ability to quantify value, create and deliver dynamic and impactful presentations to executives.  

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing, global environment. 

• Strong problem solving and facilitation skills 

Education 

• Bachelor’s Degree required. 

• MBA or CPA/public accounting background is a plus 

About Tanium 

On a mission. Together. 

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.   

As a global organization with stakeholders around the world, it’s imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.  

Our commitment to excellence and innovation has earned us a place on the Forbes Cloud 100 list for ten consecutive years, and we continue to be recognized worldwide as a great place to work. 

Taking care of our team members 

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.   

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About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Technical-Sales Engineer to join Mattermost as we enter the Japanese market. This is a high-impact, early-stage opportunity requiring a "player-coach" mentality with significant room for ownership, autonomy, and professional growth.

As the first technical hire in Japan and the Indo-Pacific region, you will not only lead technical demonstrations but also serve as a strategic partner to our sales team, directly shaping regional growth and ensuring customer success in high-trust environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Technical Leadership: Lead all regional technical activities, including pre-sales architecture, product demos, and deep-dive technical evaluations.
• Mission-Critical Deployment: Architect and deploy solutions within complex on-premise, air-gapped, and private cloud environments, ensuring operational resilience for defense and national security customers.
• Partner & Channel Enablement: Collaborate with system integrators (SIs), VARs, and distributors to build a sustainable technical network and contribute to the regional partner go-to-market plan.
• Stakeholder Management: Translate complex technical details into value propositions for audiences ranging from executive C-suite (General Officers) to frontline operational personnel.
• Product Advocacy: Act as a bridge between Japanese customers and our global product/engineering teams, representing local requirements to help build world-class, mission-ready software.
• Post-Sales Excellence: Support technical engagements for key accounts to ensure customers are achieving their specific mission outcomes and workflow automation goals.

Required Skills & Experience

• Industry Expertise: 10+ years of technical experience, specifically within the cybersecurity sector or high-growth SaaS/technology companies.
• Domain Knowledge: Proven experience serving defense, national security, or critical infrastructure customers.
• Infrastructure Mastery: Strong knowledge of closed cloud environments, on-premise deployments, and the technical/operational concepts utilized within secure sectors.
• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Experience in global startups is preferred; you must be an independent, creative problem-solver capable of negotiating technical "win-win" scenarios.
• Communication: Native Japanese language skills and strong English proficiency (reading/writing).
• Travel: Ability to travel based on business needs to support partner events, tradeshows, and customer sites (up to 50%).

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Security Clearance: Highly desired due to the nature of our mission-critical customer base.
• Forward-Thinking: Awareness of GenAI and its applications in secure collaboration.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience.
  
  

Why Mattermost?

Mattermost is an open-core technology company building secure collaboration solutions for organizations in high-trust environments. We enable secure messaging and workflow automation across the world’s most sensitive deployments—from air-gapped defense systems to private clouds. In this role, you are the technical face of Mattermost in Japan, driving our expansion into one of our most critical growth regions

About Appier 

Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

About the role

Appier's Playable Ads team (https://www.appier.com/en/blog/what-is-playable-ads)  builds AI-powered playable and video ad experiences that drive dramatically higher engagement and conversion for the world's leading apps and games. We're looking for a Senior Backend Developer with deep expertise in distributed systems and modern backend architecture to design and build the scalable, high-performance services behind these experiences — from creative generation pipelines to the infrastructure that brings our ML models to production. You'll work across microservices, messaging systems, data persistence layers, and system performance optimization, while partnering with ML scientists on MLOps workflows to continuously ship and serve new model versions to end users. You'll also collaborate closely with frontend engineers and product managers to deliver seamless, cross-functional outcomes.

If you're passionate about building backend systems that operate at scale, thrive in cross-functional teams, and want your code to directly power AI-driven ad experiences reaching millions of users, we'd love to talk.

What You'll Work On

• Architect and develop robust, scalable backend services and APIs using ASP.NET Core, owning sizable projects from system design through production operation.
• Design efficient database schemas and optimize data access logic across SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• Implement message-driven communication with high reliability and fault tolerance.
• Partner with ML scientists to build and maintain MLOps pipelines — including model versioning, deployment, serving, and monitoring — ensuring new models are reliably delivered to production.
• Lead system designs, drive technical roadmap decisions, and provide guidance to team members.
• Proactively identify performance bottlenecks, profile critical components, and implement scalable solutions.
• Own and continuously improve system observability, incident management, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment workflows.
• Explore and integrate AI-assisted development tools and emerging technologies to boost team productivity.
• Participate in on-call rotation to ensure product reliability and scalability.

What We're Looking For 

[Minimum qualifications]

• Proficiency in C# and ASP.NET Core, or experience with other object-oriented languages (e.g., Java, Go) with willingness to cross-train in the .NET stack.
• Proven experience in distributed systems, microservice architectures, and designing scalable backend systems.
• Strong expertise in PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or equivalent SQL/NoSQL databases, with hands-on experience in ORM frameworks such as Entity Framework Core.
• Advanced knowledge of message broker systems such as RabbitMQ, Kafka, or NATS.
• In-depth understanding of IO-bound operations, threading, parallelism, and asynchronous programming.
• Practical experience with Docker, container-based deployment workflows, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and production operational practices.
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, well-documented code and solve complex problems analytically.
• Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders and enjoys working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Proficient in using LLM-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT) to accelerate productivity.

[Preferred qualifications]

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Experience with MLOps practices such as model serving infrastructure, A/B testing frameworks, or ML pipeline orchestration tools.
• Leadership experience such as mentoring junior engineers, leading code reviews, or facilitating agile processes.
• Experience with performance profiling and debugging tools, high-performance network services, or FFI integrations for performance-critical components.
• Solution-oriented mindset with a focus on system sustainability, and willingness to explore emerging technologies into backend systems.

[Language]

Fluent in English, Japanese language proficiency is not required.

Open to overseas candidates/Visa Support
This position can be based in Tokyo, Japan or Taipei, Taiwan. For international candidates, Appier's Japan office provides visa sponsorship to ensure a smooth relocation transition to Japan.

#LI-AK1

At AKQA (part of WPP) we believe in the imaginative application of art and science to create beautiful  ideas, products and services. We exist to create the future together with our clients. 

AKQA’s Experience Technology Architect, with assistance from the Technical Director and  Delivery Director, will serve as the technical point of contact for clients and lead the  project team for technical perspective to achieve the best results. 

As a member of AKQA Tokyo, you will join a dynamic, globally-minded team  surrounded by some of the brightest minds in their fields. You will create world-class  experiences for both Japanese and overseas markets with Team. 

ROLE REQUIREMENTS 

• Facing Japanese customers and collaborating with global team on activities related  to the technical aspects of the project. 
• Understanding proposed customer experiences and interpreting and document  technical requirements. 
• Define technology requirements and propose solutions based on company best  practice. 
• Platform Evaluation and selection to meet client requirements 
• Research best practices and proactively getting help of local and global colleagues to shape technical solutions. 
• Support the design and implementation of frontend and backend architecture to  drive customer experiences. 
• Research and ensure best practices in accessibility, performance, and security. Evaluate existing client architectures and suggest appropriate improvements to  meet their goals. 
• Recruit and oversee technology development teams.

QUALIFICATIONS & CHARACTERISTICS 

• Bachelorʼs degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field. 
• 5+ years of experience in software development or system Implementation. 3+ years of experience delivering customer-facing services on the vendor side. Understanding in frontend frameworks like ReactJS and backend technologies or  equivalent technologies. 
• Understanding of modern cloud infrastructure such as Vercel or Netlify, and major  cloud providers like GCP, AWS or Azure. 
• Having an interest in advanced technology solutions and being proactive in  acquiring new skills. 
• A person who can be an advocate for global standard framework and development  methodologies. 

Desired Qualifications 

• Ability to independently provide services to clients. 
• Experience in e-commerce and web architecture with headless architecture. Experience participating in global projects. 
• Business level English and native level Japanese. 

About Appier 

Appier is an AI-native Agentic AI as a Service (AaaS) company that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to power business decision-making. Founded in 2012 with a vision of democratizing AI, Appier’s mission is turning AI into ROI by making software intelligent. Appier now has 17 offices across APAC, Europe and U.S., and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (Ticker number: 4180). Visit www.appier.com for more information.

Open to overseas candidates/Visa Support

This position is based in Tokyo, Japan. For international candidates, Appier's Japan office provides visa sponsorship to ensure a smooth transition to Japan.

About the role

Software engineers at Appier build a wide range of platforms and services that interconnect data and AI with our customers and users. As a Senior Software Engineer, Backend Development, you will design and build scalable and performant backend architecture for OJM, Omni-channel Journey Map (https://www.appier.com/en/blog/customer-journey-map), and Aideal (https://www.appier.com/en/products/aideal). You will own and drive the technical roadmap for sizable projects or services, mentor junior engineers, and facilitate high performance agile teams collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities 

• Key owner of sizable engineering projects and services
• Lead system designs and provide technical guidance to team members
• Mentor engineers in cross-team development processes
• Lead code reviews to ensure high quality coding standards
• Facilitate agile process collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Initiate and lead team-level technical, process and growth initiatives
• Continuously improve the system's observability, incident management, DevOps and production operational SOPs
• Develop and operate scalable, reliable and maintainable service-based softwares and related components
• Responsible for laying the foundation for the platform as well as proposing solutions to ease software development, monitoring of software, etc.
• Profiling and performance tuning of critical components
• Participate in idea brainstorming and contribute ideas to technology, algorithms and products
• Participate on-call rotation within Backend team to ensure product reliability and scalability

About you 

[Minimum qualifications]

• 5+ years of experience in software development.
• Leadership experiences such as mentoring junior engineers, facilitating an agile process.
• Ability to build web services on Linux.
• Proficient in one or more of the following languages: Typescript
• Good knowledge of Network API Design ( e.g. REST or GraphQL).
• Good understanding of any SQL/NoSQL database (MySQL / MongoDB / Redis / etc.)
• Familiar with git.
• Familiar with AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Proactive, good interpersonal and problem-solving skills.
• Business-level proficiency in Chinese is required.

[Preferred qualifications]

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Good at profiling and debugging tools.
• High performance network service on Linux.
• Design and architect large scale distributed systems.
• Design and implement distributed algorithms and data structure.
• Expert in some of the following CS Domains:
• Nginx / HAProxy.
• Operation automation tool (such as Jenkins).
• Continuous integration / continuous deployment.
• Monitoring and alert system (Prometheus / Nagios).
• Functional programming.
• Data Intensive Application Design.
• Web Frontend and Javascript.

#LI-AK1

About the Role:

We are looking for an Account Executive, Defence & Intelligence who will be responsible for growing Planet’s Government sales pipeline and book of business in Government Intelligence, Defense and National Security institutions for Japan.  The ideal candidate for this position is a driven, independent thinker, who can also be creative in finding new and dynamic ways to expand Planet’s government business. This person will have a proven track record of selling in government and defense, with an extensive network and able to navigate procurement processes and frameworks. They will identify, qualify, negotiate, and close large and medium-size deals and drive sales revenue targets. The ideal candidate will have Military experience, technical understanding of geo-spatial imagery products (or a related technical field) and understanding of government customers that we sell to.

This role involves developing an extensive pipeline of new sales leads, providing product and sales demonstrations to prospective customers, and formulating appropriate business. To support this, the D&I Account Executive should have the ability to forecast accurately when managing the incoming pipeline of opportunities. The need to source, sell, co-sell, and close deals means that the ideal candidate should be familiar with the concepts of carrying quota and closing. Above all else, we want our potential D&I Account Executive to enjoy our unique value proposition and join us in Planet’s mission to see change and change the world.

This is a full-time, remote position based in Japan. If located near an office, you are expected to work from that office 3 days per week.

Impact You’ll Own:

• Develop the sales pipeline needed to achieve or exceed your sales targets and goals.
• Collaborate with the Government Sales team and Leadership.
• Work with Planet’s marketing team to run campaigns to attract and identify new opportunities.
• Work with Business Development to grow a pipeline of opportunities with strategic accounts.
• Prospect and develop business relationships, close sales, and manage customer expectations as the company grows.
• Collaborate with the whole commercial organisation to foster close customer relationships based on trust and integrity.
• Engage qualified prospects and take them through the journey of identifying the value proposition for Planet solutions and negotiating through agreement/contract/procurement obstacles to achieve an ultimate win.
• Manage the contracting and Government procurement process.
• Work closely with pre-sales/solution architect staff to ensure technical validation of the Planet solution and achieve a technical win.
• Work closely with our post-sales organization and Customer Success team to ensure a successful onboarding for new customers and maintain/grow a relationship.
• Work strategically to develop the pipeline of qualified opportunities needed to achieve or exceed your sales targets and goals.
• Maintain an extensive level of pipeline hygiene using Salesforce.com.
• Collaborate and innovate as needed to create customer-facing presentations and proposals unique to the prospect and situation.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s Degree or commensurate professional experience
• Experience successfully finding and winning business with Government customers, such as the Military of Defense, an Intelligence account, or similar
• Excellent relationships across Japanese Government and the partner ecosystem
• 6+ years of related experience in Enterprise Solution Sales required along with a successful track record
• 6+ years of experience selling to government customers, including understanding the nuances of Government sales cycles and how to navigate through the process
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to be self-motivated and work independently under tight deadlines in a dynamic environment
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills
• Negotiation and persuasion skills
• Critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills
• Experience with Salesforce.com or a similar CRM System
• Fluent in English, the working language of the company and Japanese
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the year

What Makes You Stand Out:

• Active Armed Forces Reserve or veteran as a relevant intelligence professional
• Deep understanding of the value of commercial Earth Observation imagery in supporting the work of the D&I user.

Application Deadline:

May 11, 2026 by 23:59 CET (Central European Time)

Benefits While Working at Planet:

These offerings are dependent on employment type and geographical location, based upon applicable law or company policy.

• Paid time off including vacation, holidays and company-wide days off 
• Employee Wellness Program 
• Home Office Reimbursement
• Monthly Phone and Internet Reimbursement
• Tuition Reimbursement and access to LinkedIn Learning
• Equity 
• Volunteering Paid Time Off

#LI-REMOTE

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Technical Director to bridge the gap between client needs and technical solutions within our agency. The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of both data, marketing and technical domains, with the ability to architect technical solutions across technologies for web, mobile, enterprise martech and translate complex business requirements into effective and scalable solutions. You will work closely with clients, product design teams, and engineering (front end and back end) teams to design and implement solutions that meet project objectives and shape the technical direction for our clients. We are seeking a hands – on leader for engineering teams and design teams as well as a consultative leader with clients’ technical teams.  We are seeking someone who is collaborative, curious, problem solving oriented and kind.

What You’ll Do

• Architectural Design: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and develop scalable and efficient solutions [see example technologies below]. Create architectures that align with project requirements and business objectives.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance and leadership to the development team, ensuring best practices and architectural standards are followed. Serve as a subject matter expert, staying up-to-date with the latest trends, tools, and frameworks in the creative technology space.
• Solution Development: Work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to identify business needs and translate them into technical requirements. Lead the development of production-ready web, mobile, enterprise martech solutions  
• Collaboration: Collaborate with other Solution Architects, Software Engineers, Designers, and Project Managers to ensure seamless integration of  
• Evaluation and Optimization: Evaluate existing systems and technologies, identifying areas for improvement and optimization. Provide recommendations for enhancements, architectural changes, or technology adoption to enhance overall solution quality and performance.
• Collaboration: Partner with teams of developers and technologists.  
• Pre – sales: Participate in pre-sales conversations with clients and internal teams.

What You’ll Need  

• 8-10 years Experience as a Tech Director, Solution Architect, Technical Architect, Cloud Architect, pre-sales technical lead, or similar role, with a focus on web, mobile, enterprise technologies.
• Strong understanding of architectural principles, design patterns, and best practices in software development. Can provide solutions for high performance and scalability architecture.
• Experience in designing and implementing end-to-end solutions, from requirements gathering to deployment and maintenance.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.  JP and ENG preferred based on client and internal team communication.
• Have experience with any Tech stack/language/framework (JavaScript, TypeScript, ReactJS, Angular, VueJS, HTML5 / CSS 3, SASS/LESS), Mobile (iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter), Backend (NodeJS, Java, Go, PHP, Python, .Net Core), Database (MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra), Web Server (Nginx, Apache), Web (Drupal, AEM)
• Have strong solutioning experience with any of Cloud solutions: Azure, GCP or AWS.
• Excellent understanding of DevOps/CloudOps and building high-availability infrastructure.
• Leadership that combines persuasiveness, decisiveness, and competitiveness is necessary to motivate a team.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and industry best practices to drive business growth
• Design modern technical architectures to implement the solution
• Develop and oversee technical documentation of client  solutions ie architectures, user manuals, platform evaluation and  recommendations, conform and manage source code control guidelines for the agency
• Work with service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies.
• Work with various teams to configure management systems via its management interfaces (E.g. EDM, Ad Platforms, CMS, etc)
• Familiarity with source code control systems (E.g. SVN, GIT)
• Familiarity with task tracking systems (E.g. Jira)
• Good understanding of quality processes and standards
• Ability to manage internal stakeholders and client stakeholders.
• Have worked in small/large teams and clients locally and regionally to deliver projects.
• Understanding how to work with product design teams is a plus.
• Exposure to Data-related projects like RFM, BI, ML, AI, is a plus.
• Skilled or Certified in Adobe, Salesforce, CDP, Loyalty Platforms, is a plus.
• Bilingual proficiency in Japanese and English (written and spoken).
• Ability to work in a fast – paced environment.

Operational & delivery excellence:

• Optimize operational efficiency as a catalyst for business success, streamlining technical processes, maximizing resource technical efficiency & utilization, minimizing project delays, number of technical showstoppers, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.  
• Able to own and drive to solve technical escalations 
• Work with technical teams to implement and deploy solutions, ensuring quality and performance.
• Have experience working with distributed teams

Client consultation and pre- sales:

• Meet with clients to understand their business challenges and technical requirements.
• Translate client requirements into technical specifications and solution designs.
• Design and architect technical solutions that are scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.
• Participate in pre-sales conversations with clients and internal teams.

About Us

VML & Ogilvy Japan GK was established in April 2019 as a partnership between Geometry Global and The Ogilvy Group to enhance our offering to brands in Japan in support of their business ambitions and marketing objectives. We believe in the power of creativity to drive meaningful change that delivers positive business outcomes. Now more than ever the ability for an agency to flex and adapt to clients changing needs is vital in the application of communications, brand experience, commerce and technology. Our blend of global and local expertise and marketing capability is designed to meet the challenges of today while setting our clients up for success from tomorrow and beyond. VML & Ogilvy Japan GK is a WPP company (NASDAQ: WWPGY)

#LI-DNP

Udacityの使命は、世界中の労働者が未来のキャリアに必要なスキルを身につける支援をすることです。私たちは世界のトップ企業と提携し、実践的なプロジェクト型学習プログラムを共同開発することで、受講者が実社会で通用するスキルを習得できるよう支援しています。Udacityのプロジェクトレビュアーは、学習者が成長する過程で高品質なフィードバックを得られるようサポートする、極めて重要な役割を担います。

チームに参加しましょう

プロジェクトレビュアーの主な職務内容

• 受講生が提出したプロジェクトを、正確性・完全性・Udacityガイドライン遵守の観点からレビューする
• 受講生が改善できるよう、日本語で建設的かつ実践的なフィードバックを提供する
• 提出されたプロジェクトがオリジナル（自作）であり、盗用・剽窃がないことを確認する
• 8時間以内という迅速なレビュー対応時間を維持する
• Udacityチームと連携し、レビュー品質と一貫性を確保する。

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現在募集中の専門分野

以下の分野において、専門知識を有するレビュアーを積極的に募集しています。

• 中級Python
• データエンジニアリング(AWS)
• データエンジニアリング (Microsoft Azure)
• 自然言語処理
• 深層強化学習
• C++
• ビジネスリーダー向けAI
• データストリーミング
• データアーキテクト
• Pythonによるデータサイエンスのプログラミング
• Rによるデータサイエンスのプログラミング
• ビジネスインテリジェンス分析
• API開発とドキュメント作成
• クラウドアーキテクト - AWS
• クラウドアーキテクト - Microsoft Azure
• クラウドネイティブ・アプリケーション・アーキテクチャ
• クラウドDevOpsエンジニア (AWS)

（※ 募集分野は需要に応じて随時更新されます）

応募するメリット

• 技術的知識や専門性が世界的なプラットフォームを通じて認知される
• 世界中の優秀な技術メンターたちとネットワークを築ける
• 柔軟な勤務時間で副収入を得られる
• 日本および世界の学習者に教育的インパクトを与えられる
• 教育の未来を形づくる使命感あふれる組織の一員になれる

現在、様々なポジションでレビュアーを募集しています。

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