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Atlassian offers flexible work arrangements, allowing employees to work from home, the office, or a mix of both, with virtual interviews as part of its distributed-first culture. The company seeks a Scaled Sales Associate (SSA) in Japan, responsible for various tasks including customer discovery, opportunity qualification, and contract management, mainly serving small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The SSA's pivotal role involves educating potential clients about Atlassian's products and driving revenue growth through effective customer relationship management. Responsibilities include achieving sales targets, nurturing leads generated by marketing, and collaborating with product experts to address client inquiries. Overall, the SSA is expected to enhance customer engagement and facilitate business opportunities while leveraging digital communication channels.

Atlassian is continuing to drive investments focused on developing our largest, most strategic customers. We partner with 82% of the Fortune 500 and work with teams at IBM, Tesla, Dish, Lufthansa and many more. Our Account Management team looks to deepen our relationships with our customers, explore how we solve their most complex challenges, and help them realize value across our solutions.

Our Account Management team owns retention and accelerates expansion, ultimately contributing to the transformation of our largest Enterprise customers worldwide. You will drive revenue growth across Atlassian’s full product portfolio by delivering high customer retention rates, proactively engaging on expansion opportunities, and leading upsell, upgrade & cross-sell opportunities throughout the customer lifecycle. You will partner closely with our Global Sales Team to drive Total Book of Business growth. Additionally, you will be partnering with Sales team on strategic opportunities, including white space analysis, strategic account planning & mapping, and cross-functional partnership with Sales support teams.

We are looking for a team player who can adapt rapidly to changing events and handle the complexity and detail orientation that comes with large strategic accounts. In addition, you need to be able to prioritize high value activities amongst competing priorities. You have over 7 years of relevant experience with a proven track record of achieving revenue targets and accelerating expansion within your owned book of business. You are confident with driving sales engagements end-to-end and are an expert at running cross-sell discovery.

More about you

The team is comprised of proactive, resilient, and empathetic Account Managers, specialized in accelerating growth across Atlassian's full suite of products and services. You are adaptable to change, consistently seek opportunities to learn, and lean into collaboration to drive success. We believe in the Atlassian values and want to use them as our compass in constantly refining and optimizing our go-to-market model.

Responsibilities

• Accelerating revenue growth by leveraging existing customer footprints to maximize expansion via a tops-down, solution-oriented approach

• Developing Senior and Executive relationships over video conferences as well as in-person

• Manage high-value renewals & expansion across a sizable product portfolio

• Ownership of growth opportunity management and sales cycles end-to-end

• Partner with our Sales team on account planning and driving total book of business growth through competitive, market and whitespace analysis

• Increase customer awareness of Atlassian's product portfolio to discover cross-sell and up-sell opportunities

• Maintain a deep understanding of product updates and new offerings and articulates those improvements to customers and our solution partners

• Forecasting accountability for your owned book of business

• Proactively identifying pockets of risk in your Customer’s portfolio and triaging solutions to mitigate issues before they impact customer satisfaction

• Managing up internally to provide awareness and advocacy of customer needs

• Influencing cross-functional partners toward mutually beneficial outcomes