Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Acquisition | Tokyo, Japan

Grafana Labs, the company behind the open observability cloud, is founded on the principles of open source, open standards, open ecosystems, and open culture. Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, is flexible and built for scale. With Grafana Cloud's actually useful AI, organizations can see, understand, and act on all their disparate data to move at the speed of their ambitions. Today, more than 35 million users and 7,000+ customers including Anthropic, Bloomberg, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Salesforce trust Grafana Labs to ensure reliability of their applications and systems, resolve incidents quickly, and optimize their telemetry to reduce noise and cost. We are a 100% remote company with 1,600+ team members across 40+ countries, and were backed by leading investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, GIC, Coatue, J.P. Morgan, CapitalG, and Lead Edge Capital. Learn more at grafana.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

Were scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do.

You may not meet every requirement, and thats okay. If this role excites you, wed love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity.

_{The Opportunity:}

_{Grafana Labs is looking for an Senior Enterprise Account Executive, Acquisition who will be responsible for prospecting and closing new business across Japan. You will identify, nurture and close opportunities with new customers. You will manage forecasts and track customer data. We're strong proponents of a consultative sales approach - learn about the customer's needs first before talking about our products. Your expertise will be critical in helping articulate the value of our products, work with the customer during the trial phase and hand off a strong relationship to our Customer Success team.}

_{What Youll Be Doing:}

• _{Meet and exceed individual quarterly and annual sales goals}
• _{Outbound prospecting into net-new customers}
• _{Manage all aspects of the sales process (prospecting, sales meetings, product demos, proofs of concept, proposals, and negotiations)}
• _{Cultivate sales through outbound prospecting and inbound leads}
• _{Be able to understand and convey the value of both Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise}
• _{Become an expert in managing your sales pipeline in Salesforce}
• _{Manage quote creation, order processing, and day-to-day customer requests}

_{What Makes You a Great Fit:}

• _{5+ Years of Experience in Infrastructure Technology Sales}
• _{Demonstrated history of consistent goal achievement in a highly competitive environment (top 10% performer)}
• _{Energetic, upbeat, entrepreneurial, tenacious team player}
• _{Adaptable and with demonstrable experience in high velocity technology companies}
• _{Familiarity with open source technology is a significant advantage}
• _{You will need to be an excellent communicator in all channels (in person, online, in writing) and able to form strong working relationships both in person and virtually}
• _{Located in: Tokyo, Japan}

_{Bonus Points For:}

• _{Familiarity with open source technology is a significant advantage}
• _{Experience using Command of the Message and MEDD(P)ICC is ideal.}