Enterprise Account Executive, Digital Native Business
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What the team is looking for.
As an Enterprise Account Executive for Digital Native Business based in Tokyo, you'll drive the adoption of safe, frontier AI technology across Japan's fastest-moving technology companies.
This is a greenfield, new business role: you'll build your territory from the ground up, owning the full sales cycle from first outbound touch to close across Japan's internet services, gaming, e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and media companies.
You'll work directly with founders, technical leaders, and product teams to help them build with Anthropic's AI as a core part of their products and operations.
Responsibilities:
- Own and exceed revenue targets by winning net-new logos across Japan's digital native companies, including internet services, gaming, e-commerce, SaaS, fintech, and media
- Build a greenfield territory from scratch: develop your own account list, generate pipeline through self-sourced outbound prospecting, and create repeatable plays for landing new accounts
- Run fast, consultative sales cycles with founders, CTOs, CPOs, VPs of Engineering, and Heads of AI, positioning Claude as the foundation for AI-powered products and competitive differentiation
- Land new accounts quickly and set them up for expansion, working closely with technical buyers and developer teams who evaluate hands-on
- Orchestrate internal teams (Product, Engineering, Applied AI, Partnerships) to win technical evaluations and accelerate time to production for customers building on our models
You may be a good fit if you have:
- 8+ years of sales experience in Japan with a clear track record as a hunter: consistently winning net-new logos and generating the majority of your own pipeline through outbound prospecting
- Experience selling to digital native, internet, or high-growth technology companies, and comfort engaging technical buyers such as engineering and product leaders, not just business stakeholders
- A track record of opening greenfield territories or segments with little existing brand presence, building pipeline and closing revenue from zero
- Proven experience exceeding revenue targets driven primarily by new business, with the ability to manage high-velocity cycles alongside larger strategic deals
- Strong commercial instincts for usage-based and consumption models, and the ability to connect product adoption to revenue growth
- A knack for bringing order to chaos and an enthusiastic 'roll up your sleeves' mentality. You are a true team player who thrives in ambiguous, startup-like environments
- A strategic, analytical approach to territory and account prioritization combined with high-energy, persistent execution
- A passion for and/or experience with advanced AI systems. You feel strongly about ensuring frontier AI systems are developed safely and responsibly for broad benefit
- Excellent communication skills in both Japanese and English
What we offer:
- Competitive base salary and commission structure commensurate with experience
- Equity participation
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid work model with flexibility
- Access to cutting-edge AI technology and world-class research team
Logistics:
- Minimum education: Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience
- Required field of study: A field relevant to the role as demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience
- Minimum years of experience: Years of experience required will correlate with the internal job level requirements for the position
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time. However, some roles may require more time in our offices.
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas! However, we aren't able to successfully sponsor visas for every role and every candidate. But if we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa, and we retain an immigration lawyer to help with this.
- Sales
- Digital Native Business
- Japan
- AI Technology
- Frontier AI
- Usage-Based Models
- Consumption Models
- Commercial Instincts
- Strategic Analysis
- High-Energy Execution
- Excellent Communication Skills
- Advanced AI Systems
- Startup-Like Environments
- Team Player
- Ambiguous Situations
- Passion for AI
- Experience with AI
- Safety and Responsibility
- Broad Benefit
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