Apac Digital Marketing Manager

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan · Marketing

This role is for a Digital Marketing Manager in APAC who will own the digital marketing strategy, execution, and reporting to drive qualified pipeline for the sales team. The role requires a balance of regional strategy and country-level nuance, with a strong emphasis on AI-first ways of working to improve various aspects of digital marketing operations. The candidate needs hands-on expertise in performance channels, local APAC platforms, and creative localization, with a requirement for native-level Japanese and business-level English.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead APAC digital marketing channel strategy and execution to deliver pipeline impact across key countries and segments.
  2. Own performance marketing across APAC, including:
  3. Establish an AI-forward digital marketing operating system: use AI to accelerate creative iteration, localization QA, performance insights, experimentation, and reporting—while maintaining brand and quality bars.
  4. Drive regional creative production that’s effective and culturally fluent—especially for high-context markets like Japan (tone, brevity, CTA norms, translation quality).
  5. Own APAC demand generation reporting. Synthesise insights and recommendations, ensure consistent funnel definitions and measurement across countries/channels, and report back to regional and global stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience leading B2B digital demand generation in APAC, with strong judgment on “what works where” across different APAC markets.
  • Hands-on expertise across performance channels (paid social, paid search) and lifecycle levers (webinars, email nurtures - Marketo/[Customer.io](http://Customer.io)), with clear pipeline impact ownership.
  • Deep familiarity with local APAC platforms and practices, including Japan (Yahoo) and Korea (Naver). As well as broader marketing/sales tech stack; [Salesforce.com](http://Salesforce.com), Marketo, [Customer.io](http://Customer.io).
  • Strong creative and localization sensibility for APAC, especially high-context markets (e.g., Japan): you can brief, review, and raise quality to avoid “direct translation” outcomes that harm performance and brand.
  • Extremely AI-forward: you actively adopt and operationalize AI to improve speed, quality, and results (testing, insights, creative, workflows), and can bring others along.
  • Native-level Japanese (or professional written Japanese) plus business-level English; experience marketing to Japanese B2B buyers.
  • Best-practice B2B website conversion expertise: optimize key journeys and high-intent landing pages (messaging/IA, forms and lead capture flows, CRO testing, attribution/analytics instrumentation, and regional SEO) to increase qualified demand and pipeline.

Nice to have

  • Experience partnering closely with Sales on pipeline targets and funnel definitions.
  • Experience running multi-country experimentation programs (testing framework, measurement, learnings roll-up) across APAC.
  • A cool AI experiment in digital marketing that you can show us.

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-first ways of working
  • AI to accelerate creative iteration, localization QA, performance insights, experimentation, and reporting
  • Extremely AI-forward: you actively adopt and operationalize AI to improve speed, quality, and results (testing, insights, creative, workflows), and can bring others along.
  • Native-level Japanese (or professional written Japanese) plus business-level English; experience marketing to Japanese B2B buyers.