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Senior Manager Data Center GTM

Japan, Tokyo-to, Tokyo💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-08 → 2026-07-31

Core

Drive strategic business development and Go-to-Market plans to accelerate Cloud growth and datacenter expansion across the Asia region.

Role type

Senior Manager Data Center GTM

Builds

Cloud services, datacenter expansion projects, and anchor tenant pipelines

Domain

Cloud computing, hyperscale datacenter infrastructure, Asia market

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

strategic business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, cloud network topology design, hyperscale datacenter architecture, operational management of critical environments, marketing and partner program execution, product management, market analysis, Go-to-Market strategy, competitive positioning, product roadmap organization, financial analysis, executive communication, stakeholder management, cross-group collaboration

Preferred skills

storytelling, complex idea translation, executive influencing, managing large matrix organizations

Technologies

cloud network topologies, hyperscale datacenter infrastructure

Responsibilities

Translate cloud services strategy into executable market plans; compose integrated business plans across sales, marketing, partners, and customer engineering; drive strategic business development for Cloud growth in Asia; orchestrate datacenter expansion activities including site planning, build, and pipeline reporting; work with leadership and engineering teams to land features for key anchor customers; build business cases for datacenter expansions; drive pipeline for anchor tenant customers.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership

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## About the role Are you able to translate cloud services strategy and objectives into clear, discrete and executable plans for your market? Can you compose an integrated business plan across sales, marketing, partners and customer engineering disciplines? Do you love to work across multiple stakeholders to ensure that we collaborate and deliver the best customer and partner experiences possible? Are you excited about landing these plans to realize revenue, growth, share and strategic market outcomes? As we are quickly expanding our local Region Datacenters (DC) footprint globally, in this role you will drive strategic business development to accelerate Cloud growth across the Asia. You will need to be able to apply your valued contributions across a challenging mix of business development, customer orientation, tech savvy and leadership. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond. ## Requirements - 5-10+ years marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development, technical pre-sales, or related work experience. - 5+ years of industry experience in cloud network topologies/design and related hyperscale datacenter network architecture/infrastructure. - 5+ years of operational experience in managing critical environments within enterprise/hyperscale datacenters. - 5+ years of experience with any combination of the following: - drive marketing and partner programs - product marketing - business planning - product management - customer and market analysis - Go-to-Market strategy and execution - competitive market analysis and positioning - organize and drive product roadmaps - develop insights from market research - sales enablement and field support - build and execute marketing plans and strategies - or related. - Fluency in English and Japanese is required. - 5+ years of enterprise marketing strategy, business planning, sales enablement, business development or related. - 10+ years experience managing and expanding a product/solution portfolio and driving demand generation and pipeline acceleration within a complex (e.g., multinational or matrixed) organization. - Effective executive communication, storytelling skills, and the ability to translate complex ideas into simple stories. - Proficient Business Analysis Skills (understands financials, sales processes, scorecards and key performance indicators). - Track record of cross-group collaboration skills and ability to manage stakeholders across large matrix organizations. - Track record of executive influencing and stakeholder management skills. ## What we offer - Work closely with the Region and Area Leadership Team, Sub GMs, CSA Leaders, STU (CSA), CSU, ATU, and Marketing teams, and orchestrate all Datacenter expansion related activities involving partnership with Corp and Area teams, including site planning, build, pipeline and reporting. - Work with Area Activation GTMs, Sales Excellence, Sales Operations, and Area sellers to drive sufficient pipeline for anchor tenant customers. - Work with Asia OCTO to coordinate with CO&I and engineering teams to land features on time for key anchor customers. - Build the Business cases for Datacenter expansions and orchestrate successful deployment.
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