General Manager

🕒 August 11

🇯🇵 Japan – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👔 Manager

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Runway

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2018

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

📱 Media

Artificial Intelligence • SaaS • Media

Runway is a company building foundational "Real-World Intelligence" — large models and systems that can understand, simulate and act in the visual world. It offers three main product platforms built on these models: Runway Creative, an all‑in‑one cloud creative suite for generating and editing video, images and audio for individuals and teams; Runway Dev, an AI media platform and API for developers to run models, compose pipelines and trigger workflows; and Runway Robotics, a toolkit for photorealistic simulation, policy inference and synthetic data generation powered by their General World Model (GWM-1). Runway also publishes research (e. g. , GWM-1, Gen-4. 5 video model) and serves both individual creators and enterprise customers.

📋 Description

• Define and lead Runway’s go-to-market strategy for Japan, focusing on high-value enterprise accounts • Lead commercial expansion across media, entertainment, advertising, brands and technology sectors • Identify enterprise and distribution partnerships • Cultivate relationships with C-suite executives at major Japanese firms • Localize product and marketing strategy for the Japanese market with Product, Creative and Marketing teams • Serve as subject matter expert on the Japanese and broader Asia competitive landscape, regulatory environment and emerging AI trends • Build the Japan office by recruiting, leading and mentoring local enterprise account executives, growth leads and deployment leads • Represent Runway at industry events, conferences and in the media • Potentially expand into Country Manager responsibilities for Tokyo-based candidates, overseeing local operations and serving as Runway’s primary representative in Japan

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise software, media technology or high-growth AI startups • Proven leadership track record building and cultivating high-performance teams • Native fluency in Japanese • Professional fluency in English • Ability to bridge communication between U.S. teams and local stakeholders • Existing network within major Japanese media companies, advertising agencies or major technology conglomerates • Deep understanding of Japanese business etiquette • Ability to navigate complex organizational hierarchies • Comfort with ambiguity in early-stage international expansion • First-principles thinking to close deals and build scalable processes • Candidates based in Tokyo may assume expanded Country Manager responsibilities

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary is part of the overall compensation package • Equal opportunity to succeed • Inclusive workplace where employees can bring their full selves to work • Opportunity to work with a creative, open-minded, caring and ambitious team • Opportunity to work on AI world models, including Universal World Simulator, GWM-1, Gen-4.5, General World Models, Robotics SDK, Conversational Real-time Agents and Runway Studios

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