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Regional Business Development Lead
Location
Japan
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Regional Business Development Lead
Nethermind
• Own early business development for Japan. • Map relevant customer, partner, and operator opportunities in vending, convenience retail, payments, automation, and self-service commerce. • Build relationships with operators, retailers, technology partners, payment providers, distributors, automation companies, and strategic commercial partners. • Identify pilot opportunities in vending, convenience-style automation, and related unattended retail environments. • Work directly with the founder on local market development, partner strategy, positioning, and customer feedback. • Adapt the company's product narrative for Japanese customers, partners, and technical stakeholders. • Lead local meetings, demos, partner follow-up, and commercial conversations in Japanese. • Translate customer and partner feedback into product, integration, and deployment requirements. • Support planning for pilots, integrations, field testing, support expectations, and local operations. • Help define what the company needs in order to operate credibly in Japan. • Build the foundation for a future Japan team across sales, operations, partnerships, field deployment, and customer success.
Job Requirements
- Direct experience in at least one of the following is required:
- Japanese vending machine industry
- Japanese convenience store industry
- Convenience store automation
- Payments, cashless payments, merchant acquiring, or POS in Japan
- Retail automation
- Unattended retail
- Self-service kiosks
- Automated food, beverage, or retail machines
- Robotics or machine automation for commercial environments
- Consumer hardware or industrial hardware partnerships in Japan
- Japanese fluency required.**
- Professional English required.
- Strong understanding of Japanese business culture, enterprise sales cycles, partner management, and relationship-building.
- Ability to communicate credibly with Japanese commercial partners, payment companies, technical teams, and executives.
- Ability to understand both commercial and technical discussions around machines, payments, service, inventory, operations, and customer experience.
- Willingness to travel frequently within Japan and occasionally internationally.
- Comfortable operating in an early-stage startup with high autonomy and limited structure.
- Strong follow-through, attention to detail, and ability to turn meetings into structured next steps.
- Preferred experience:
- Experience working with Japanese vending companies, convenience store groups, payment companies, POS companies, retail automation providers, or related operators.
- Experience with cashless payments, loyalty, mobile wallets, POS systems, vending telemetry, or self-service retail infrastructure.
- Experience launching pilots or new technology partnerships with large Japanese companies.
- Experience with robotics, IoT, machine automation, smart retail, or industrial technology.
- Experience bridging Japanese companies with US or European startups.
- Experience building a local country operation or strategic partnership function from scratch.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
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