Account Manager, Japan
At a glance
Manager-level Account Management role at DoiT. Remote, Japan.
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What you'll do
- Build a steady relationship rhythm across your customer portfolio and keep vendor teams informed about account growth opportunities
- Resolve customer support escalations, negotiate longer-term agreements and uncover additional cloud workloads and cost savings
- Run quarterly customer reviews covering project timelines, cloud spending forecasts and feedback on support
- Bring customer requests to engineering teams so they can inform product context and delivery priorities
- Find new customers within your territory and expand existing accounts
What you bring
- At least two years in account management, customer success or customer engineering
- At least three years working for a technology company
- You communicate confidently in Japanese and English, both in writing and conversation
- You can work effectively with technical teams and build trusted relationships with stakeholders
Who this fits
This remote role suits an account manager who can balance strategic customers with emerging clients and handle both customer relationships and technical conversations. You should be based in Japan, ideally Tokyo; candidates in Thailand, Singapore or Australia are also considered if their Japanese is native or near-native. Occasional travel within Japan and the wider APAC region is part of the role.
From the employer
Who We Are
DoiT is a global technology company that works with cloud-driven organizations to leverage the cloud to drive business growth and innovation. We combine data, technology, and human expertise to ensure our customers operate in a well-architected and scalable state - from planning to production.
With decades of multicloud experience, we have specializations in Kubernetes, GenAI, CloudOps, and more. An award-winning strategic partner of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, we work alongside more than 4,000 customers worldwide.
The Opportunity
The role of DoiT’s Account Management team is to nurture relationships with existing customers, identify valuable ways to engage further, be a trusted point of contact for the cloud vendor teams regarding accounts’ growth opportunities and to retain 100% of DoiT’s existing customers.
- Develop a deep understanding of our business, our cloud management platform, support and services and how they help our clients and their needs.
- Maintain knowledge, context and ownership of the customers you are responsible for and own communication with the respective vendor teams in a way to show value and potential opportunities for revenue growth.
- Manage customer-related support escalations to resolution, ensuring customer satisfaction is of the highest level.
- Negotiate and close long-term commitments with key stakeholders, balancing the requirements of the customer, the vendor and the company's interests.
- Identify new workload opportunities within the Customer’s Cloud Environment / SaaS solutions.
- Generate new-logo sales to expand your territory
- Establish a regular cadence with the complete portfolio of your customers as part of your book of business. Balancing the requirements of large strategic customers and fast-growing emerging clients.
- Help aggregate customer feedback that ensures our products & solutions closely align with customer needs and requests.
- Provide customer feedback and requests to engineering teams to provide greater market/customer context and help prioritize deliverables within active development cycles.
- Deliver regular quarterly reviews with customers, tracking active project timelines, projected spending on respective cloud platforms and feedback on DoiT support & engagement.
- Identify Cost Optimization opportunities within the Customer Cloud environment
- Work with Cloud Vendors Sales Rep on mutual customers.
- This role requires occasional travel within Japan and the broader APAC region.
Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in an Account Management/Customer Success/Customer Engineering role.
- 3+ years of experience at a technology company
- Strong verbal/written communication skills in Japanese & English.
- Strong technical skills that enable you to engage productively with technical teams, and the ability to build influential relationships.
- Excellent operational/administration skills, analytical, detail-oriented and able to “zoom” in/out from the big picture to the minutiae.
- A desire to grow within the organization and continuously broaden your skill sets.
- A great sense of humour and enjoys having fun at work.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or other major public clouds
- Cloud Certifications (AWS Cloud Practitioner or Google Cloud Digital Leader certifications)
- Additional languages
Are you a Do’er?
Be your truest self. Work on your terms. Make a difference.
We are home to a global team of incredible talent who work remotely and have the flexibility to have a schedule that balances your work and home life. We embrace and support leveling up your skills professionally and personally.
What does being a Do’er mean? We’re all about being entrepreneurial, pursuing knowledge and having fun! Click here to learn more about our core values.Sounds too good to be true? Check out our Glassdoor Page.
We thought so too, but we’re here and happy we hit that ‘apply’ button.
- Unlimited Vacation
- Flexible Working Options
- Health Insurance
- Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Option Plan
- Home Office Allowance
- Professional Development Stipend
- Peer Recognition Program
Many Do’ers, One Team
DoiT unites as Many Do’ers, One Team, where diversity is more than a goal—it's our strength. We actively cultivate an inclusive, equitable workplace, recognizing that each unique perspective enhances our innovation. By celebrating differences, we create an environment where every individual feels valued, contributing to our collective success.