Director - Business Development - Japan - Twitter - Tokyo

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Director, Business Development - Japan

Twitter is seeking a Director of Business Development - Japan who will be responsible for negotiating Twitter’s strategic partnerships for both countries as well as managing a partnerships team based in Japan. These partnerships will range from driving significant user growth of Twitter users globally to generating new revenue streams for the company. The position is based in Tokyo, Japan.

Responsibilities:
Manage a team, focused on creating and managing strategic partnerships for Japan.
Negotiate multi-faceted, complex deals with some of Twitter’s most strategic and largest partners.
Drive key relationships and manage a partnerships team focused on deepening existing key strategic partnerships.
Develop new partnership strategies and structures through thought leadership and execution with cross-functional and cross-border product and engineering teams.

Desired Skills and Experience

Requirements:
10+ years of business development experience at technology companies.
Experience managing a team in region, preferably for a multi-national company.
Extensive experience and relationships working with large consumer technology partners, including consumer web and mobile (such as DeNA, Google, GREE, Microsoft, mixi, NTT, Rakuten, SoftBank, Yahoo JP, etc.).
Technologically savvy in both the web and mobile spaces -- able to speak with confidence regarding technological underpinnings, including API’s, SDK’s, etc.
Sharp strategic thinker and collaborator who can both design and execute on a vision, while working cross-functionally from and in a remote office.
Excellent communicator with solid written and fluent verbal communication skills in both Japanese and English.
Proven success in negotiating complex deals and driving most aspects of the legal process.
Ability to run quickly with little supervision and adapt to a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
Able to travel (roughly 20% of the time).
BS in CS / Engineering preferred; MBA a plus.

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