Account Executive - Enterprise, Japan

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan · Sales

Enterprise Account Executive for Notion, focusing on selling AI-enhanced productivity tools to large organizations in Japan. This role involves leading sales cycles, building executive relationships, and collaborating with internal teams to drive adoption and value realization of Notion's AI features.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own a territory or named-account book and lead end-to-end enterprise sales cycles (net-new and expansion).
  2. Build and maintain executive-level relationships and champions; multi-thread across business and technical stakeholders.
  3. Run structured discovery and account planning to identify priority workflows, expansion vectors, and risk.
  4. Deliver tailored demos and executive narratives; guide customers through technical validation and enterprise readiness.
  5. Orchestrate security reviews, legal redlines, procurement, and complex stakeholder alignment.

Skills

Required

  • 8–15+ years of full-cycle, quota-carrying experience selling enterprise software
  • Proven record of closing large, complex deals
  • Strong executive communication
  • Ability to navigate complex org structures
  • Experience selling to technical buyers (CIO, CTO, VP of Product, VP of Engineering)
  • Aligning product capabilities to both technical requirements and business outcomes
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder diligence (security, legal, procurement)
  • Keep momentum through ambiguity
  • High agency and resilience
  • Create planful motion, learn quickly, and drive outcomes
  • Hands-on orientation with AI and modern workflows
  • Curious and adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results
  • Experience selling products with usage-based / consumption pricing models
  • Exceptional communication skills in both Japanese (native/fluent) and English (business level.)

Nice to have

  • Experience with developer tooling, APIs, data platforms, infrastructure, or AI/agentic products.
  • Prior experience in enterprise expansion motions (land-and-expand)
  • Navigating global accounts.

What the JD emphasized

  • 8–15+ years of full-cycle, quota-carrying experience selling enterprise software, with a proven record of closing large, complex deals.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder diligence (security, legal, procurement) and keep momentum through ambiguity.