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Salesforce

Builds cloud software for customer relationships

Associate Market Researcher

Corporate StrategyUpdated on Nov 12
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Basic Japanese business communication skills, primarily reading and writing.
  • Ability to coordinate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Attention to detail and ability to plan and complete assigned work.
  • Interest in market trends for enterprise technologies, including AI and business applications, and willingness to consider how AI tools can support new ways of working.

Responsibilities

  • Continuously collect news, product announcements, service updates, and case studies about domestic and international SaaS vendors, AI companies, and IT companies from websites, press releases, blogs, and social media.
  • Collect information about market and customer trends from analyst research reports, including Gartner and IDC.
  • Identify and organize important collected topics relevant to Salesforce's business and share them with the team.
  • Use AI tools such as Slackbot and Claude to improve research-process efficiency.
  • Watch online webinars and product-launch events and organize their key points.
  • As needed, attend domestic IT, AI, and SaaS exhibitions or seminars to research market trends and competitors.
  • Prepare concise internal reports from collected information in consultation with team members.
  • Regularly review internal dashboards concerning markets, customers, competitors, and sales opportunities; update and aggregate data using tools such as Google Sheets and Tableau.
  • Support data preparation and materials for recurring team reports, such as quarterly competitor summaries.
  • Review previously created team content for accuracy and currency, and coordinate updates to formats, links, and information with content owners.
  • Regularly test existing internal AI agents and check answer accuracy and quality, including identifying outdated or incorrect information; coordinate fixes with the owners when needed.
  • Identify, register, and support adding knowledge and content to internal AI agents based on new product announcements and market developments.

Desired Qualifications

  • Comfort reading English-language news and materials; AI translation tools may be used.
  • Marketing experience.

About the Company

Salesforce

Builds cloud software for customer relationships

Salesforce sells cloud software that helps businesses manage sales leads, customer service, marketing, and online commerce from shared customer records. Its flagship Sales Cloud tracks accounts and deals, while Service Cloud organizes support cases and Agentforce builds AI assistants that act on company data. Teams access these tools through a browser and connect outside apps and data sources, with Slack for work messages and Tableau for visual analysis. Salesforce earns most of its revenue from software subscriptions and support, with professional services for implementation and training. Marc Benioff co-founded Salesforce in 1999, and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Founded
1999

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