Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.
Target Resume Now
About the Role
Workato is seeking an exceptional Account Executive to join our growing team in Japan, a region with high global potential. This role focuses on new business sales within the mid-market segment, requiring collaboration with internal teams and acting as a strategic advisor to C-level executives.
Responsibilities
- Join our growing Japan team, in one of our most high potential regions globally.
- Report to our Sales Manager.
- Build and execute a territory plan targeting mid-market customers across Japan.
- Focus on new business sales, selling both directly and with/through channel partners.
- Partner with our SDR, partner sales and marketing teams who are all based locally.
- Act as a strategic advisor to C-Level executives (both technical and non-technical) in your accounts, helping them to maximise the potential of automation and integration.
Requirements
- At least 2-5 years of Commercial Software Sales experience with the technology space, ideally with a SaaS or PaaS vendor.
- A proven ability to generate new business sales.
- An ability to communicate with senior executives in mid-size business, up to C-level.
- High level of comfort presenting key client issues and acting as the customer advocate within Workato.
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills with an entrepreneurial and proactive mindset.
- Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and manage time, even under high-pressure situations.
- Strong collaboration skills, ability to adapt to a dynamic environment with a passion for making an impact.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Japanese.
- English skill is a plus for communicating with multi-lingual stakeholders externally and internally.
Skills
- Commercial Software Sales
- SaaS or PaaS sales
- New business generation
- C-level communication
- Critical thinking
- Analytical skills
- Time management
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Japanese communication
- English communication
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 2-5 years
About the Company
- Workato delivers enterprise infrastructure for the agentic era, redefining iPaaS and helping enterprises unify data, applications, processes, and AI into a single, governed platform.
- A leader in Enterprise MCP and trusted by 50% of the Fortune 500, Workato’s cloud-native architecture connects every application, data source, and process to power real-time orchestration at scale.
- With enterprise-grade security and continuous innovation at its core, Workato provides the trusted foundation for organizations to automate with confidence and operationalize AI across the business.
- Workato believes in fostering a flexible, trust-oriented culture that empowers everyone to take full ownership of their roles.
- We are driven by innovation and looking for team players who want to actively build our company.
- We believe in balancing productivity with self-care, offering a vibrant and dynamic work environment along with a multitude of benefits.
- Business Insider named us an “enterprise startup to bet your career on”.
- Forbes’ Cloud 100 recognized us as one of the top 100 private cloud companies in the world.
- Deloitte Tech Fast 500 ranked us as the 17th fastest growing tech company in the Bay Area, and 96th in North America.
- Quartz ranked us the #1 best company for remote workers.