At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Tokyo
About Sierra
- Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
- We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do.
- Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
About the role
- Sierra is seeking a Communications & Marketing Manager for Japan to set the standard for great marketing and PR in a hyper growth, founder-led company.
- The role involves working cross-functionally to raise awareness of Sierra and maintaining overall responsibility for local marketing, press, public speaking, and social media.
Responsibilities
- Set the standard for great marketing and PR in a hyper growth, founder-led company.
- Work cross functionally to raise awareness of Sierra.
- Maintain overall responsibility for local marketing as well as press, public speaking and social media.
- Be a key part of Sierra’s global Marcomms team — pitching in as needed.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of Japan and the Japanese tech/business environment.
- Entrepreneurial and scrappy — you like to try new things, and you lean into risk.
- A problem solver — you roll up your sleeves and solve what’s thrown at you.
- Fast and calm — you move quickly and are poised under pressure.
- Strong execution — you deliver what you promise, to a high standard.
- Creative — you can set the standard for what drives conversation in enterprise PR.
- Excellent communicator — you have strong written and verbal communications.
- Great team player — you’re low ego and enjoy working with people at every level.
- Understanding of marketing, the press and social media — either from working at a company, in government or as a journalist.
- Good judgement and professionalism — you can navigate ambiguity and can be trusted with sensitive or confidential initiatives.
Benefits
- Flexible (unlimited) paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
- Discretionary benefit stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
- Free alphorn lessons
- Participation in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies for eligible full-time employees
