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Databricks is seeking an exceptional marketing leader to serve as Head of Marketing for Japan. As Head of Marketing for Japan, you

will serve as the country marketing leader and strategic business partner to the Japan leadership team helping shape overall

go-to-market strategy.

You will be responsible for defining and executing Databricks’ integrated marketing strategy for Japan to accelerate category

leadership, pipeline growth, customer adoption, and long-term market expansion. This includes building Databricks’ reputation and

presence in one of our most strategic global markets while ensuring marketing is deeply aligned to business priorities across

sales, partners, customer success, and corporate functions.

This role requires a highly strategic, commercially-minded marketing executive who can balance long-term market development with

near-term revenue accountability.

Reporting to the VP Marketing, APJ, you will lead cross-functional orchestration across global, APJ, and in-country teams to

deliver high-impact, locally relevant programs that drive measurable business outcomes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Business & Market Leadership

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.

Integrated Marketing Strategy

Develop and execute Japan’s end-to-end marketing strategy across brand, demand generation, executive engagement, customer

marketing, communications, and events.

Ensure global and APJ campaigns are effectively localized and activated to maximize impact in-market.
Build innovative, high-performing programs tailored to Japan’s unique buyer, cultural, and market dynamics.

Partner Marketing & Ecosystem Development

Develop partner marketing strategy in close partnership with alliances and cloud ecosystem teams.
Leverage partners as a force multiplier to expand market reach, accelerate pipeline creation, and deepen customer engagement.
Build joint go-to-market motions with strategic ecosystem partners.

AI-First Marketing Leadership

Champion modern, AI-enabled marketing practices and help evolve the Japan marketing organization toward AI-native ways of

working.

Demonstrate fluency in emerging AI technologies and their implications for marketing execution, productivity, and customer

engagement.

Continuously identify opportunities to improve marketing effectiveness through data, automation, and AI.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

Coach and mentor talent to elevate strategic thinking, executional excellence, and future leadership capability.
Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Success Measures / Outcomes

Drive measurable contribution to pipeline, consumption, and customer adoption targets in Japan.
Increase Databricks’ reputation, awareness, and category leadership.
Expand partner-sourced / partner-influenced pipeline contribution.
Build a high-performing, scalable marketing team and operating model for Japan.
Establish marketing as a strategic growth driver and trusted business partner to the Japan leadership team.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

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.

Deep understanding of enterprise go-to-market models and complex B2B buying journeys.
Strong commercial acumen with fluency in pipeline, funnel, and revenue metrics.
Demonstrated experience building and developing high-performing teams.
Strong understanding of AI’s impact on marketing and go-to-market, with ability to lead modern AI-enabled marketing

transformation.

Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.
Native / fluent Japanese and business-level English required.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and

over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI.

Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse,

Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific

details on the benefits offered in your region click here.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Databricks, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can excel. We take great care to

ensure that our hiring practices are inclusive and meet equal employment opportunity standards. Individuals looking for employment

at Databricks are considered without regard to age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or

expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation,

socio-economic status, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

Compliance

If access to export-controlled technology or source code is required for performance of job duties, it is within Employer's

discretion whether to apply for a U.S. government license for such positions, and Employer may decline to proceed with an

applicant on this basis alone.

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Head of Marketing - Japan

Kategori

Försäljning, inköp, marknadsföring

Plats

Tokyo

Publicerad

17 juli

Sista ansökningsdag

16 augusti

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