GitHub is seeking a Marketing Manager, Japan to join it’s International Marketing Team. This role will focus across the whole GitHub product portfolio. The portfolio of solutions provided by GitHub support a developer throughout their lifecycle and this role will reflect that. Whether the developer is a student, working on a personal project, contributing to open source, launching their first start up or working as part of a distributed team in a large enterprise, we want to be there to support them.

Focus Areas:

      • Brand Awareness
      • Community Outreach
      • Field events including both sponsorships and GitHub owned events
      • Digital demand generation
      • Sales enablement and support
      • Channel and partner marketing

Responsibilities:

      • Regular communications to the Sales team
      • Management of the sales lead pipeline, focusing on quality over quantity
      • Champion of the marketing requirements for Japan, liaising with the HQ team to action where required.
      • Selection and execution of event sponsorships for community and enterprise
      • Work in conjunction with other marketing teams to create a series of GitHub seminars, taking the GitHub brand on tour.
      • Design and execution of digital demand generation campaigns.
      • Localization of GitHub content and creation of new content where required.
      • Work with the channel and alliances team to build demand programs for local GitHub partners.
      • Liaise with the local PR agency on a day to day basis.

You must have:

      • Native or fluent Japanese and English
      • Fantastic written and verbal Japanese communication skills
      • Understand that our customers span both individuals AND businesses, meaning that our voice and actions are GitHub, first
      • Prior experience partnering with a field Sales team.
      • Minimum three years marketing experience.

Bonus points:

      • A deep understanding of developer tools and the mechanics of how software is built
 
 
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