Account Executive, Enterprise - Strategic Expansion

Fivetran
Remote, Japan, APACPosted 2 March 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p>From Fivetran’s founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We’re proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.</p></div><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>About the Role</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Fivetran is scaling its Japan business. We already have a small Tokyo office, an APJ hub, a tight-knit GTM team in Japan, and 100+ customers there. The Account Executive, Enterprise - Strategic Expansion will be the primary point of contact for over half of those customers and will directly influence customer satisfaction, adoption, and ARR growth. Success is measured by excellent customer outcomes (CSAT / advocacy) and measurable revenue expansion tied to adoption.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">If you are a thoughtful, customer-obsessed GTM professional with a mix of sales and post-sales experience — and you want to join a values-driven, collaborative company that is demonstrably committed to Japan — this role is for you.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This is a full-time position based remotely out of Japan.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>Technologies You’ll Use</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Salesforce, Catalyst, Slack, Looker, Sigma, Clari, Hex, ChatGPT, Workday, Zendesk, Gong, Outreach, Slab, G Suite, Jira</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><strong>What you’ll Do</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Be the primary relationship owner for a book of existing customers in Japan: retention, renewals, upsells and adoption-driven expansion.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Build trusted executive and technical relationships with customers (in Japanese and English). Run regular business reviews and create expansion roadmaps tied to business outcomes.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Drive customer adoption of Fivetran connectors and platform features through consultative, use-case driven conversations — translate technical capability into measurable business value.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Manage the full contracting lifecycle for your book: planning, strategy, negotiation, amendments and execution (working closely with Legal and Sales Ops).</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Provide timely and accurate forecasts for renewals, expansions and amendments; keep Salesforce and forecasting tools up to date.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Partner cross-functionally with Customer Success Managers, Sales Engineers, Product, Marketing and Partners/SIs to deliver excellent outcomes and smooth implementation/migration projects.</sp ... (truncated, view full listing at source)