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Strategic Account Executive

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remote executive full-time Remote - Japan

First indexed 29 Jul 2026

Description

We are seeking a Strategic Account Executive to join our team in Japan. As a Strategic Account Executive, you will play a key role in the growth strategy of Twilio Japan by growing existing customers.

You will be responsible for developing a strategy to grow existing customers for Twilio, through the up-sell and cross-sell, and collaborate with internal stakeholders, such as marketing, solution engineerings, partner managers and product managers.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and implement a comprehensive territory plan, winning strategy for target accounts, execute and adjust plan and priorities to maximize results of growing existing customers and its business.
  • Collaborate with internal stakeholders, align shared goals and strategy and obtain support from them.
  • Forecast the business, including revenue, opportunities with expected annual run-rate business size and timing of ramping, incremental annual commitment values, strategic activations of key cross-sell product, sales funnel management, systematic follow up and discipline by utilizing SFDC and its supplement tools as source of truth for business and its pipelines.
  • Be an active spokesperson for Twilio Mission, Vision and Value, Corporate Story to our customers, potential customers, and any external partners who collaborate.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of combined experience in high-touch sales experience for Japanese customers with native level Japanese language communication.
  • Comfortable working with business and highly technical leaders, while influencing their understanding and building supportive partnerships.
  • Demonstrated track record of growth of business, growth strategy development and execution.
  • Challenger mindset with appetite to acquire new business and customers.
  • Record of delivering market driven results, especially to scale and enterprise customers.
  • Capable to understand English as business level and communicate in writings.

Desired Qualifications:

  • Deep experience working with telecom companies, carriers, or global communications platforms.
  • Software, SaaS, CPaaS or CCaaS experience with AI capabilities.
  • Fluent verbal communication in English.
  • Cloud Technology Sales - IaaS/PaaS, virtualization, security.
  • Experience working with/at System Integrators, Resell and Value-Added resellers to drive large and broad customer coverage with external partner organizations.

Location: Remote - Japan Travel: Approximately 50% travel is anticipated.

What We Offer: Working at Twilio offers many benefits, including competitive pay, generous time off, ample parental and wellness leave, healthcare, a retirement savings program, and much more.

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