Mid-market Customer Success Manager, Japan

Notion Notion · Enterprise · Tokyo, Japan · Customer Success

This role focuses on driving AI adoption, value delivery, and renewals for a book of named enterprise accounts. The Customer Success Manager will lead AI workshops, help customers build and deploy AI-powered workflows, and identify expansion opportunities. The role requires strong customer relationship management, technical aptitude to understand and implement AI workflows, and the ability to articulate value to senior stakeholders. While not requiring deep AI expertise, a curiosity and willingness to use AI tools are essential. The role is part of an early-stage Customer Success team, contributing to foundational processes and product feedback.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive growth, adoption, retention, and expansion for a product people love that solves real problems
  2. Help customers achieve real results through AI-powered workflows: You'll partner with customers to identify their goals, then guide them through hands-on training and working sessions to build workflows that solve their specific problems—with AI at the center.
  3. Own renewal execution grounded in proven value and outcomes
  4. Help build the foundations of Customer Success at Notion
  5. Meaningfully shape our future product

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of success in your current Customer Success or Account Management role
  • You have experience driving the end-to-end customer journey - from adoption to renewal
  • Strong discovery skills to uncover customer challenges and connect them to tailored solutions
  • You are comfortable with technical concepts and can develop skills required to effectively build and implement AI workflows
  • Ability to articulate value customers are receiving and present it effectively to senior audiences
  • Ability to build Customer Success playbooks and new processes based on learnings
  • Ability to work cross-functionally to solve customer problems creatively
  • Ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced and foundational team
  • Native level Japanese, business level English
  • You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results

Nice to have

  • You are a power user of Notion
  • You have experience working with a technical product and multiple commercial models (seats, usage)
  • You've been a first or early hire at a fast growing start up
  • You have experience using Notion at a past or current company

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-powered workflows
  • AI at the center
  • Drive AI adoption
  • Lead AI workshops
  • build and deploy workflows
  • implement AI workflows
  • adopt AI tools