Abnormal AI is seeking a Channel Account Manager (Japan) to join our Channel Management team. This role is pivotal in supporting our sales efforts by developing and managing key relationships with channel partners across Japan, serving as the foundational Channel Account Manager for the region.
As part of a highly collaborative and detail-oriented team, you will build strong relationships with both national and regional partners. You’ll work cross-functionally with sales, marketing, and technical teams to align go-to-market strategies, drive partner engagement, and support the successful execution of joint sales efforts. Your ability to adapt to diverse stakeholder needs - from executives to technical staff - will be essential as you represent Abnormal's value in a competitive market.
As the ideal candidate for this role, you have a strong sales DNA, and a track record of 10+ years of success leveraging channel partners to drive growth and sales productivity. You understand that pipeline is the lifeblood of the business and as such, you have a detailed methodology for driving activities that consistently generate partner-sourced pipeline and bookings. Your weekly level of activity and engagement is very high, as you drive collaboration and engagement with partners via account mapping sessions, develop Partner Account Plans, partner with marketing to execute channel-marketing events, recruit and onboard new partners, and support the sales teams that you are mapped to.
You have strong relationships with key information security channel partners throughout the region including both National Partners and local headquartered regional partners. You are highly analytical and detail oriented, and you’re able to adapt as you deal with the different personals within a partner (CEO, Sales and Technical leadership, AEs, SAs, etc). You have strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills and are able to clearly and effectively articulate Abnormal AI's value, and help partners understand how Abnormal will be critical to their business growth and strategic initiatives.