Job Description

Strategic Account Manager – Japan (Full Remote)

About the team

HashiCorp is a fast-growing company that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks. We build products to give organizations a consistent way to manage their move to cloud-based IT infrastructures for running their applications. Our products enable companies large and small to mix and match AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other clouds as well as on-premises environments, easing their ability to deliver new applications for their business.

What you’ll do (Responsibilities)

Enterprise Account Manager is an outside sales position responsible for developing, managing and closing business within mid-sized and large enterprises in our outside field sales organization. The EAM is responsible for driving the sales cycle from prospect to close selling the complete HashiCorp software suite to named enterprise accounts, and inbound, non-named leads within an assigned territory. 

What you’ll need (Basic qualifications)

• Engage new and existing HashiCorp Open Source Users to demonstrate how they can be more successful with our technology portfolio
• Engage in significant Outbound activity making use of the tools available (yesware, discoverorg, Sales navigator, etc.)
• Proactively and efficiently manage resources with dedicated teams, virtual teams, and executive staff around sales opportunities to ensure successful outcomes
• Manage complex enterprise sales campaigns with multiple prospect engagement points in Development, IT Operations, and Security Operations
• Align the overall HashiCorp solution to the customer’s business needs, challenges, and technical requirements
• Execute solution and value selling to existing customer base and new prospects
• Articulate and evangelize the vision and positioning of both the company and products, and secure strategic commercial commitments
• Create a healthy pipeline of revenue and new logos for your target accounts.
• Accurately forecast business on a quarterly cadence
• Regular Air Travel is required
• Correctly estimate qualifying opportunities based on BANT
• Effectively communicate with management, legal and deal desk to ensure proper execution of documents and correct process, and follow instructions or recommendations set by these teams and company management
• Fluent Japanese language skill is must
• Business Proficiency level of English language skill is preferred 

What’s nice to have (preferred qualifications)

• Experience in Open Source software business models is preferable and proficiency in Cloud and Infrastructure software is a minimum requirement
• Significant enterprise sales and customer development experience
• Track record in closing enterprise and mid-market deals
• Creation and execution of quarterly and annual business plans
• Good executive presence, communication skills, and credibility
• Proven track record of consistently meeting or exceeding assigned annual/quarterly goals and targets and consistently ranked top 1-2 on their team
• History of accurate forecasting and business reporting
• Significant experience selling disruptive technology into focused markets

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“HashiCorp is an IBM subsidiary which has been acquired by IBM and will be integrated into the IBM organization. HashiCorp will be the hiring entity. By proceeding with this application you understand that HashiCorp will share your personal information with other IBM subsidiaries involved in your recruitment process, wherever these are located. More information on how IBM protects your personal information, including the safeguards in case of cross-border data transfer, are available here: link to IBM privacy statement .”

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