Business Development & Sales

Overview
We are seeking a passionate mid-senior member to join our Biz-dev / Sales team. You will lead scaling our blockchain / NFT infrastructure businesses, focusing on the creative and cultural industries both domestically (Japan) and globally.

Our blockchain infrastructure empowers institutional clients, including major IP holders, sports teams, government bodies, cultural retails and tourism and so forth, to protect and distribute their creative assets to the mass of new generation customers in-real-life.

More about Startbahn and our products:

Company website: https://startbahn.io/

Once you are here you will:

• Plan and execute business expansion strategy both domestically in Japan and globally.
• Execute acquiring clients and also cooperate with colleagues regarding system development and operation.
• Manage business KPIs and lead sales activities to drive mass adoption of our products
• Promote strategic cooperation and alliances with external business partners, e.g. marketing / creative agencies, event planners / aggregators, digital consultants, etc.
• Support our company-wide strategy design

What we can offer:

• The opportunity to lead business expansion with a team of international talents coming from various countries and industries
• The chance to work with industry leaders, from fine art to sub-culture, from the theaters to the stadiums, and from Japan to world
• The experience of different product / business cycles, i.e. 0-to-1 challenges and 1-to-100 business expansion
• Working closely with the executive team and the chances to propose new business initiatives and company structure
• Learning of blockchain / NFT, one of the most promising technologies, through real business scenes
• Remote work base but may require onsite meeting upon clients’ situation

Who You Are – Requirements:

• Skills to think logically, prioritize issues, and identify the solutions
• Experience in scaling out B2B services as either a biz-dev or a sales member
• Experience in communicating with clients (both newly acquiring / existing clients)
• Experience in managing your own team (empower a team, set goals, and deliver results)
• Business-level skill or higher both for English and Japanese (Our internal common language is English)
• Basic understanding/interest in blockchain or NFT

Welcomed Skills and Experience:

• Experience in biz-dev or sales in IP/ content-related industries (marketing/ creative agency, entertainment, sports, gaming, publisher, creative content, etc.)
• Experience in B2B sales of software products
• Experience working in English abroad
• Interest in the social implementation of blockchain technology

Contact Us If These Sound Like You!

• You are keen to keep up with new technologies and services.
• You can talk about why blockchain is currently in demand.
• You are self-motivated to work for the company, and not just finish off tasks.
• You are able to see things objectively / widely and think in a framework.
• You can think out-of-the-box.
• You are interested in team building and human resource development.
• You have your own vision of the world you want to achieve.
• You love arts and culture!

About Company Benefits
Statutory Benefits and Life Event Support

• Full labor and social insurance (Workers' Accident Compensation, Employment, Health and Nursing Care, and Employees’ Pension Insurance)
• Kanto ITS Health Insurance
• Nursing care leave system
• Maternity and paternity leave system (A male employee has taken paternity leave for six months.)
• Bereavement/Congratulatory Leave, Congratulations and Condolences allowance

Commuting and Housing

• Flextime system
• Remote working allowance provided
• Transportation expenses provided

Workplace and Learning

• Support for purchasing books
• Support for attending events and seminars
• Employee referral program

Recruiting

• Subsidies for recruitment dinners
• Welfare expenses (business meals expenses)

Weekends and Holidays

• 2 days off per week (Saturday and Sunday)
• Japanese national holidays are off.
• New Year holidays
• Summer vacation leave
• Paid leave (available from the first month of employment