Head of Marketing - Japan

Databricks
Tokyo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 15+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Strategic thinking","Stakeholder management","Communication","Team leadership"]

Senior marketing leader responsible for defining and executing Databricks’ integrated marketing strategy in Japan to accelerate category leadership, pipeline growth, and customer adoption. Leads cross-functional programs across sales, partners, customer success, and corporate functions, balancing long-term market development with near-term revenue accountability and AI-enabled marketing transformation.

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Databricks
5 months ago

Head of Marketing - Japan

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Job Summary

Senior marketing leader responsible for defining and executing Databricks’ integrated marketing strategy in Japan to accelerate category leadership, pipeline growth, and customer adoption. Leads cross-functional programs across sales, partners, customer success, and corporate functions, balancing long-term market development with near-term revenue accountability and AI-enabled marketing transformation.
Location: Tokyo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as the senior marketing leader and trusted advisor to the Japan leadership team, contributing to country strategy and operating as a key voice in market planning and execution.
  • •Own country marketing strategy across reputation, demand, customer engagement, and ecosystem development.
  • •Partner closely with country sales leadership to align marketing investments with strategic growth priorities, whitespace opportunities, and account segmentation.
  • •Develop and execute Japan’s end-to-end marketing strategy across brand, demand generation, executive engagement, customer marketing, communications, and events.
  • •Develop partner marketing strategy in close partnership with alliances and cloud ecosystem teams.

Key Requirements

  • •15+ years of progressive marketing leadership experience in enterprise technology / high-growth software environments.
  • •Proven experience leading country or regional marketing organizations in Japan.
  • •Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic business leader and partner to senior sales / country executives.
  • •Strong experience across field marketing, demand generation, executive engagement, partner marketing, communications, and events.
  • •Native / fluent Japanese and business-level English required.
Experience:15+ yearsEnterprise technologyHigh-growth software
Skills:LeadershipStrategic thinkingStakeholder managementCommunicationTeam leadership
Languages:JapaneseEnglish

Company Brief

Databricks
Provides a unified data analytics platform powered by Apache Spark to simplify building, deploying, and scaling data engineering, data science, and machine learning workloads for enterprises.
Industry: Data Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2013
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