About our Team & Organization
The Japan Scaled Growth team owns the product strategy and operations tailored to agency, channel sales and vendor sales businesses. By identifying introduce targeted advertising products and industry best practices to both new and existing advertisers, agency and channel sales partners. We analyze and deeply understand our regional agency partners and their advertisers, and own the regional product strategy and GTM operations.
About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Product Marketing professional with a strong background in media to lead go-to-market strategy and drive product adoption for TikTok’s advertising solutions in Japan. This role sits within the Scaled Growth Team and focuses on accelerating the key product penetration, validating product-market fit, and driving revenue growth of TikTok’s ads products through the agency ecosystem.
In this role, you will work closely with agency sales teams, agency partners, and global product stakeholders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will be responsible for understanding the agency landscape, identifying opportunities to scale product adoption through agencies, and shaping go-to-market strategies that unlock incremental ads revenue. The ideal candidate is highly self-motivated, strategic, data-driven, and able to influence cross-functional partners effectively.
To succeed in this role, you should have experience working with media products in a product marketing, strategy, or key account management capacity, and bring a strong understanding of agency ecosystems and how agencies drive advertiser growth at scale. This is a full-time position based in Tokyo.
Responsibilities
- Lead Regional Product Strategy, GTM, and Growth for Japan
- Lead the regional product strategy for Japan, owning in-market product strategy, go-to-market planning, and growth initiatives for key advertising products.
- Identify market opportunities, advertiser needs, and ecosystem trends, and translate them into strategic product priorities and localized GTM plans.
- Drive product adoption, market penetration, and product-market fit in Japan through strong market insight and cross-functional execution.
- Define revenue growth priorities for the Japan business and shape initiatives across acquisition, expansion, and retention.
- Partner closely with Sales, Product, Product Operations, and other cross-functional stakeholders to align product priorities with business goals.
- Drive Product Enablement and Market Readiness
- Own product enablement for the Japan market, ensuring in-market teams are equipped with clear guidance on product updates, launches, and strategic priorities.
- Act as a key channel for product communications, translating global and regional product developments into localized narratives, enablement materials, and activation plans.
- Partner with Marketing, Training, Product, and Sales teams to improve go-to-market readiness and execution quality.
- Identify enablement gaps, adoption barriers, and workflow inefficiencies, and drive continuous improvements in market activation.
- Support Strategic Agency Accounts and Scale Best Practices Across APAC
- Provide strategic product marketing support for priority agency accounts to accelerate product adoption and unlock growth opportunities.
- Partner with Sales, Product Operations, Product, and other stakeholders to develop solutions for complex customer needs.
- Translate learnings from key agency engagements into scalable playbooks and repeatable approaches.
- Scale successful account-level strategies into broader partner programs across APAC.