sales
Posted Jul 25, 2025Sales Development Representative, Japan
at Notion
Tokyo, JapanRemote
Requirements
- In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work.
- experience in sales or sales development in SaaS tech or a high growth environment -
- Experience making cold calls to decision makers - A track record of high achievement in current and previous roles, hitting or exceeding quotas - Engaging and compelling customer skills - high cognitive empathy and ability to craft stories tailored to the customer - You LOVE talking to customers; Always interested in digging deeper and learning more about their needs - Fluency in Japanese and ideally business level English - You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI
Additional details
- ABOUT US: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life's work.
- Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.
- In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture.
- We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days.
- Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.
- ABOUT THE ROLE: We're looking for a motivated Sales Development Representative with an entrepreneurial and building spirit to join our founding sales team!
- As an early member of the team, you'll be instrumental in helping define our sales motion, meaningfully shape our future product, and drive business revenue all while having a blast doing it!
- WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE: - Handle inbound requests from prospective customers interested in buying Notion - Organize and take thorough notes on prospects.
- - Qualify those prospects to determine whether or not they’re a good fit for Notion - Prospect and develop new potential accounts by educating contacts about how they can increase their team's collaboration, transparency, and productivity with Notion - Experiment on outbound activity to decision makers with customized messaging and channels to generate Enterprise opportunities - Reach out to prospects via email, phone, and LinkedIn to educate them on our product/service - Hold meetings with prospective