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Box

Builds secure content software for businesses

Managing Director - Automotive Industry

Business Development & PartnershipsPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeTokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Extensive experience in Japan’s automotive industry, such as with OEMs, Tier 1 or Tier 2 suppliers, technology companies, consulting firms, or system integrators.
  • Deep understanding of the automotive industry's value chain, business processes, organizational structures, and decision-making processes.
  • Ability to build relationships with executives, business leaders, IT and digital transformation teams, and design, development, manufacturing, quality, and procurement departments at OEMs or Tier 1 companies.
  • Ability to explain the business value of cloud, data, artificial intelligence, business automation, content management, and digital transformation to executive audiences.
  • Experience advancing large, complex enterprise opportunities in collaboration with multiple departments.
  • Experience influencing stakeholders in a matrix organization without direct authority.
  • Professional working proficiency in Japanese and English.
  • Ability to work directly with customers and opportunities and execute as an individual contributor.

Responsibilities

  • Define Box’s value proposition, priority accounts, priority use cases, and go-to-market motions for Japan’s automotive industry.
  • Systematize industry business challenges and Box’s value across the value chain, including design, development, production, quality, procurement, sales, supply chain, and regulatory compliance.
  • Design industry-specific solution narratives combining Enterprise Advanced, Box AI, Box Extract, Box Automate, and Box Apps.
  • Develop and execute a go-to-market roadmap that balances near-term pipeline creation with long-term market development.
  • Build relationships with executives, business leaders, and leaders in design, development, manufacturing, quality, procurement, IT, and digital transformation at major OEMs and Tier 1 and Tier 2 companies.
  • Expand access beyond CIO and IT organizations to lines of business such as design, manufacturing, quality, and procurement.
  • Develop account strategies and executive engagement plans in partnership with account executives.
  • Participate as an industry advisor in large, complex opportunities, connecting management challenges and business transformation themes to Box solutions.
  • Contribute to new pipeline creation, opportunity expansion, and annual recurring revenue growth in priority automotive accounts.
  • Advance enterprise opportunities involving multiple departments and stakeholders.
  • Develop go-to-market plays, sales narratives, proposal templates, and executive conversation guides by use case and segment.
  • Define and track key performance indicators for pipeline, annual recurring revenue, executive engagement, use-case creation, and playbook deployment.
  • Provide automotive industry expertise to Japan go-to-market teams in Sales, Solution Consulting, Business Consulting, Customer Success, Partner, and Marketing functions.
  • Develop industry messaging, use-case collections, proposal content, and customer workshop materials.
  • Enable Japan go-to-market teams to operate independently through knowledge transfer, coaching, and opportunity support.
  • Improve the team's ability to make proposals based on customers’ management and operational challenges rather than product features.
  • Drive joint go-to-market initiatives with system integrators, consulting firms, and technology partners with automotive industry expertise.
  • Develop joint use cases with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, Google, SAP, and other partners.
  • Plan and execute joint proposals, customer workshops, industry events, and go-to-market programs.
  • Design the roles, key performance indicators, and go-to-market model for the automotive industry function with headquarters industry leadership.
  • Provide headquarters with feedback on Japanese customer needs, business challenges, product requirements, and the competitive environment.
  • Make sales narratives, use cases, customer examples, and playbooks developed in Japan reusable across APAC and globally.

Desired Qualifications

  • Go-to-market, sales, or business development experience in SaaS, cloud, artificial intelligence, data, or enterprise software.
  • Knowledge of software-defined vehicles, industrial artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence-enabled research and development, supply chain transformation, quality management, or regulatory compliance.
  • Understanding of product lifecycle management, computer-aided design and manufacturing, manufacturing and quality systems, SAP, Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, or ServiceNow.
  • Experience presenting at industry associations, conferences, customer events, or executive briefings.
  • Experience applying knowledge of the Japanese market to global strategy or product strategy.
  • A bachelor's degree in business administration, engineering, or a related field; an MBA or equivalent degree is welcomed.

About the Company

Box

Builds secure content software for businesses

Box builds cloud software for businesses and public agencies to manage documents and other business files, with tools for secure collaboration throughout their lifecycle. Its content platform brings file sharing, document approvals and electronic signatures into one place, so teams work with a shared set of files. Users access content through web, desktop and mobile apps, while administrators control permissions and retention rules. Box AI searches and summarizes business documents, and the company sells subscriptions priced by user alongside premium features and consulting services. Founded in 2005, Box is headquartered in Redwood City, California.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Redwood City, CA
Founded
2005

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