Role Description
As a Business Development Representative for Japan, you will support Dropbox’s Japan Sales organization by generating qualified pipeline, engaging target accounts, and helping Account Executives create new enterprise opportunities across Dropbox Business Enterprise, Dropbox Protect and AI solutions.
You will play a crucial role in areas such as outbound prospecting, account research, stakeholder mapping, inbound qualification, event follow-up, and partner-supported pipeline generation. You will work closely with Account Executives to identify relevant business challenges, engage the right personas, and create clear handoffs that help move qualified opportunities into the sales cycle.
This role is ideal for someone who is curious, resilient, highly organized, and motivated by creating opportunity. You will gain exposure to enterprise sales cycles, AI-enabled workplace transformation, content collaboration, security and governance conversations, and senior sales stakeholders. This is a strong development opportunity for someone looking to grow into a future Account Executive role.
Responsibilities
- Generate qualified pipeline for Japan Account Executives through outbound prospecting, account research, personalized email, phone outreach, social selling, events, and partner motions.
- Follow up promptly with attendees from Dropbox-hosted seminars, webinars and other events while their interest is still fresh improving conversion from MQLs to sales-qualified opportunities.
- Identify and engage new buying centers within target and existing accounts, including IT, Security, Compliance, Operations, Procurement, and Line-of-Business stakeholders.
- Research target accounts to understand business priorities, trigger events, pain points, and relevant Dropbox use cases across Dropbox Business Enterprise, Dash, and Replay.
- Partner with Account Executives to build account maps, prioritize outreach, support territory planning, and create multi-threaded engagement strategies.
- Conduct initial discovery with prospects to understand collaboration, content management, security, governance, AI, and workflow challenges.
- Qualify opportunities based on business pain, stakeholder fit, urgency, timing, use case, and potential revenue impact, then create clear handoffs to Account Executives.
- Maintain accurate account, contact, activity, and opportunity data in Salesforce or equivalent CRM, while sharing customer insights, objections, and market feedback with cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- 3+ years of B2B sales, business development, sales development, lead generation in a SaaS, technology, or a consultative sales environment.
- Demonstrated ability to generate interest through outbound prospecting, including personalized email, phone outreach, social selling, events, or account-based campaigns.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different customer personas, business priorities, and levels of seniority.
- Strong curiosity and discovery skills, with the ability to ask thoughtful questions and connect customer challenges to potential Dropbox value.
- High level of organization and follow-through, including accurate CRM hygiene, activity tracking, timely prospect follow-up, and clear AE handoffs.
- Fluent Japanese is required. Business-level English fluency is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience prospecting into mid-market or enterprise accounts in Japan.
- Preferred industries of expertise: construction, media, technology
- Experience engaging IT, Security, Compliance, Operations, Procurement, or Line-of-Business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with SaaS, cloud collaboration, content management, productivity tools, or AI-enabled workplace solutions.
- Experience supporting account-based sales motions, partner motions, field events, or executive engagement campaigns.
- General understanding of enterprise software buying processes, including multi-stakeholder evaluation and procurement cycles.
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