Strategic Enterprise Account Executive - Japan
Tools for this application (partners): NEWCV (opens in new tab) (resume) · JobCopilot (opens in new tab) (tracking) · MentorCruise (opens in new tab) (interview practice) · Frontrunners (opens in new tab) (hiring manager's email) · Secta Labs (opens in new tab) (headshot) · micro1 (opens in new tab) (side work) what each does
The posting
SpaceX was founded under the belief that a future where humanity is out exploring the stars is fundamentally more exciting than one where we are not. Today, SpaceX is actively developing the technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of making life multiplanetary and expanding consciousness to the stars.
SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. Our teams are building the full Super Intelligence stack: from our Colossus supercomputers, to Grok models, to our suite of applications, including Grok Bot, Grok Build, Grok Imagine, Grok Voice, and X. We're creating a powerful flywheel where more compute trains better models, better models power more useful products, and what we learn from people using those products shapes what we build next.
STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE - JAPAN
As a Strategic Account Executive for Japan, you'll be one of the foundational members of SpaceXSI's enterprise sales team in the region. You'll help large engineering organizations discover, adopt, and expand their use of SpaceXSI, owning strategic accounts across Japan and working directly with engineering leaders, CTOs, developer platform teams, and procurement stakeholders. This is a rare opportunity to bring a product engineers already love into some of Japan's most sophisticated technology, financial services, enterprise, and digital-native organizations and to help shape how software gets built in the AI era.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own a named book of strategic enterprise accounts across Japan, driving new logo acquisition and expansion revenue; run a disciplined, full-cycle sales process from prospecting and discovery through evaluation, negotiation, and close
- Build and execute account strategies that connect SpaceXSI's capabilities to the technical and business priorities of engineering leaders, CTOs, and developer platform teams
- Create pipeline through outbound prospecting, executive mapping, inbound follow-up, partner referrals, and your own network; partner closely with Sales Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to deliver high-quality evaluations and ensure customers realize value quickly
- Navigate complex enterprise buying processes, including security reviews, legal negotiations, procurement, and multi-stakeholder approval cycles
- Serve as the voice of Japan's enterprise customers internally, sharing market feedback and deal learnings with Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and GTM leadership
- Help establish SpaceXSI's enterprise presence in Japan by building repeatable motions, local market insights, and early customer references; consistently meet and exceed quarterly and annual revenue targets
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of enterprise B2B sales experience
PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
- Ideally selling developer tools, infrastructure, cloud, security, AI, or other technical SaaS products to engineering-led organizations
- Experience selling into strategic or large enterprise accounts in Japan
- Comfortable navigating complex buying committees across engineering, IT, security, legal, procurement, finance, and executive stakeholders
- A true hunter: you proactively build pipeline from scratch through outbound prospecting, creative sourcing, executive engagement, and persistent follow-up
- Strong command of pipeline management, account planning, and forecasting across a strategic book of business
- Energized by technical products and can hold credible conversations with senior engineers, platform leaders, and CTOs about how SpaceXSI fits into modern development workflows
- A self-starter who thrives in an early-stage, resource-constrained environment and can build process, playbooks, and regional learnings as you go
- Care deeply about AI and believe transforming how software is written is one of the most important problems to work on right now
Where you can sell from
Fully remote, for people based in Japan.
Taken from Cursor's own posting, last seen live on 14 Nov 2026.
Cursor sales openings in your inbox
We look at Cursor's careers page every 10 hours. Once a week you get its newest sales openings, plus close matches at other companies. Free, and one click stops it.
Sponsored jobs from job networks, which pay SalesJobs.Now when you click one.
The application
Your details, then 2 questions (1 written).
- 1.Please write a short note on a project you're proud of:Written answer · optional
- 2.Will you now or in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the country where this position is located?Yes or no
From Cursor's apply page, checked 10 Nov 2026.
About Cursor
AI coding agent sold to software engineering teams, now part of SpaceX.
Pay schedule: Employee of the SpaceX AI business; postings do not describe the commission plan or the pay mix.
Carrying a quota today?
Hiring managers ask us for sellers with a certain segment, territory or track record. Fill in one profile, and when a seat matches it we make the introduction, never without your yes. It costs you nothing.