Relationship Manager, Japan
About Us:
Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.
In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
About The Role:
The Relationship Manager is part of the Notion Sales organization who works closely with cross functional partners inside and outside of GTM. This individual owns the relationship with the accounts they cover, mostly W2W customers in Japan who adapted Notion from early phase. This includes a specific focus on retaining their existing paid footprint and ensuring their long term success with their decision makers, who are primarily executives. As part of this focus, Relationship Managers are measured on their book of business retention and ensuring we have predictable renewals that happen in a timely manner.
What You'll Achieve:
Founding member of the Relationship Management Team: The Relationship Manager role is launched last year and still new at Notion. You will be a founding member of this team working with some of our most innovative customers! You'll join at the perfect time to shape how we grow from here.
First Point of Contact: You will be the first line of contact for all our customer's needs and summarize key learnings back to our leadership teams. This includes forecasting a healthy and predictable revenue business for your territory.
Meaningfully shape our future product: As you engage with customers, you'll gain insights to help us serve them better — and work with the product to inform what we do next.
Elevate your skills as we tackle our most impactful challenges: We've achieved more than teams 10x our size in less time — and there's so much more to do and learn.
Cross-functional partnership: Work with CSM team to identify at-risk accounts and put together a strategy to mitigate identified risk, ensure customer satisfaction, and secure the renewal.
Skills You'll Need to Bring:
3+ years of experience in account management/renewal management with revenue responsibility, preferably in a high-volume environment
Ability to think systematically and operationally, with a focus on identifying and analyzing processes and workflows, to service a large set of customers
Proven track record of meeting or exceeding renewal targets and revenue objectives
Strong negotiation, presentation, and closing skills
Ability to build strong relationships with customers and internal stakeholders
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Japanese language fluency
Nice to Haves:
This role requires the ability to communicate trends, risks, and recommendations to leadership and cross-functional teams to adjust operational strategies and lead the direction of the development of new retention initiatives.
We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.
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