Country Manager – Japan

Business Operations         ·      Japan     ·       Full time 

Description

Oura is an award-winning and fast-growing startup that helps people track all stages of sleep and activity using the Oura Ring and connected app. By providing daily feedback and practical steps to inspire healthy lifestyles, we’ve helped over a million people improve their sleep, understand their bodies, and transform their health. We’re on a mission to empower every person to own their inner potential, and we’re seeking candidates who want to impact our journey.

Empowering the world starts with living our values and empowering our team. As a quickly growing company focused on helping people live healthier and happier lives, we work to promote work-life integration and ensure that our team members have what they need to do their best work.

The Country Manager in Japan will be responsible for activating expansion and new market entry in Japan.

The ideal candidate has both a strategic business background, as well as a deep understanding of country-specific rollout planning, localization efforts, sales, product, operations, finance, and marketing functions. In past roles, you’ve demonstrated an ability to think strategically about business challenges and can build and convey compelling plans and actions that inspire cross-functionally across the organization. You thrive when solving complex and ambiguous problems, are comfortable challenging the status quo, and have a proven track record of managing large programs. You can identify and communicate a clear vision to a diverse stakeholders and drive ideas to completion.

This role will be remote in Japan.

What you will do:

• Help build, socialize and sell in a 5-year strategic view of Oura’s approach to operations in Japan, in close partnership with all cross-functional groups
• Focus on achieving near-term sales, especially in the Enterprise and partnership space, to show early success
• Activate, project manage and drive Oura’s programs and go-to-market playbook in your region in close partnership with our sales, operations, finance, product, and marketing functions.
• Work with key stakeholders across all functions to deliver against plans and requirements to ensure successful and efficient expansion rollouts.
• Partner closely with many other teams at Oura – to ensure we’re thoughtful and consistent in our planning and execution.
• Evaluate and communicate the progress of ongoing in-market projects, plans, and performance regularly to key stakeholders, achieving cross-functional alignment around goals and objectives.
• Provide in-depth analysis of key business drivers to measure progress towards your country’s growth goals and develop recommendations for maximizing your country’s performance
• Act as a key partner for marketing to ensure all marketing and partnership opportunities in Japan are culturally appropriate, meaningful, and on point
• Identify and resolve issues that may impair the team’s ability to meet your country’s strategic, financial, and technical goals. Your program management skills allow you to coordinate and track work across multiple teams efficiently. Your start-up mentality enables you to find workarounds for any business challenge.

Requirements

We would love to have you on our team if you have the following:

• 7+ years of experience in corporate international expansion, product or market launches, and/ or national-level sales
• A functional knowledge of business English, and the ability to work in English, is a must
• A strong entrepreneurial bent
• You’re a shrewd written and verbal communicator in English and Japanese, lead meetings with program stakeholders efficiently and bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
• Strong history of proven results in project management of large projects would be considered an asset.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
• Detail-oriented, organized, and proactive.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced environment, positive, solution-oriented, and easy-going.
• An unyielding commitment to the quality of your work, with an ability to achieve precise and measurable results with your efforts.
• Strong background in sales or marketing would be considered an asset.
• A strong network of contacts in your country would be considered an asset
• The ability to travel up to 25% of the time would be considered an asset

Benefits

At Oura, we care about you and your well-being. Everyone here at Oura has a ring of their own and is continually looking to improve their health and add to our benefits!

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Flexible working hours
• An Oura Ring of your own + employee discount for friends & family
• Amazing culture of collaborative and passionate coworkers
• 10 PTO for first year (employees are eligible after 6 months of work)
• 16 national holidays + 3 regional holidays

Oura is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Individuals seeking employment at Oura are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, socioeconomic status, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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