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# Community & Partnerships Marketing Manager, Japan at Ahrefs

- **Company:** Ahrefs
- **Location:** Tokyo, Japan
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ahrefsjobs/jobs/6196765004

## Job description

## About Ahrefs

Ahrefs is an all-in-one marketing intelligence platform used by marketers, businesses and agencies around the world. Our tools help people understand search demand, analyse competitors, improve website performance and research content opportunities, backed by 15 years of web crawling data and increasingly powered by AI.

We’re bootstrapped and profitable, and we have been for 15 years. There are no investors and no board, which means no outside timeline on our decisions. We’re multinational, with offices in Palo Alto, Cambridge (MA), Singapore and Tokyo, and our culture is fast-moving, low-ego, and built on smart decisions and ownership.

The Japan team works closely with customers, partners and the wider marketing community to grow Ahrefs’ presence locally, and to make sure our global products and initiatives are relevant to the Japanese market.

## The role

We’re looking for a relationship-driven marketer to help strengthen Ahrefs’ presence in Japan. The role sits at the intersection of community, partnerships, events, PR and customer engagement.

You’ll build and deepen relationships with marketers, customers, industry partners, Ahrefs Ambassadors, media and other people who can help Ahrefs become more visible and more connected within the Japanese marketing community.

A major part of the role is bringing people together. That could mean hosting a meetup at our Tokyo office, organising a customer roundtable, building a joint initiative with a partner, representing Ahrefs at an industry event, interviewing a customer for YouTube, or creating a new community around a topic relevant to marketers in Japan.

You’ll have room to shape the role and build programs in your own way. We’re looking for someone comfortable taking ownership, developing relationships independently, and being one of the public faces of Ahrefs in Japan.

You’ll report to the Head of Japan Marketing and work closely with the wider Japan team as well as relevant global teams.

This role is based out of our Tokyo office in Jingumae. This is an on-site role: we’re looking for someone who’ll be in the office with the team.

## What you’ll do

- Build and maintain relationships with marketers, customers, industry figures, media, Ahrefs Ambassadors and strategic partners in Japan.
- Identify and develop new partnership opportunities independently, with the Head of Japan Marketing involved in major commercial discussions and final decisions.
- Engage with existing marketing, SEO and business communities in Japan, and create opportunities to bring people together around Ahrefs.
- Plan, host and represent Ahrefs at community and industry events: meetups, roundtables, customer sessions, booths, talks and networking activities, engaging audiences on stage, on camera and in other public-facing settings.
- Develop recurring, commercially focused collaborations with partners, including events, webinars, customer sessions, YouTube appearances and interviews that drive product interest, lead generation and stronger customer relationships.
- Build and maintain relationships with relevant media and news outlets in Japan, and identify opportunities for Ahrefs to contribute to industry conversations.
- Support customer and prospect engagement around marketing activities, including communicating with attendees before and after events.
- Work closely with the Enterprise team where relevant, while keeping activities inclusive of Ahrefs users and customers across different plans and segments.
- Coordinate interviews, filming, photography and production logistics, and support the creation, localisation and reuse of case studies, event assets, presentations and other marketing content for the Japanese market.
- Collaborate with the Japan marketing team and relevant global teams so local activities support broader Ahrefs priorities.
- Travel occasionally within Japan for partner meetings, customer engagement, conferences and events.

## What you’ll need

- Around 4 to 6 years in marketing, partnerships, community, field marketing, business development or a related area. We’re flexible on exact experience for the right person.
- Native-level Japanese.
- Professional working proficiency in English.
- Strong relationship-building skills and the confidence to develop new connections from scratch.
- Experience managing external stakeholders such as customers, partners, media, speakers or industry communities.
- Comfort taking ownership and working independently, without a highly prescriptive playbook.
- Strong communication skills and the confidence to represent a company publicly.
- Comfort hosting events, facilitating discussions, appearing on camera and speaking in front of groups.
- Good commercial judgment, and an understanding of how marketing activities contribute to customer relationships, brand growth and lead generation.
- Strong organisational skills, and the ability to move between relationship building, planning, coordination and execution.
- A collaborative working style, working closely with both local and global teams.
- Able to commute to and work from the Ahrefs Tokyo office in Jingumae.

## Nice to have

- Experience in SEO, digital marketing, SaaS or B2B technology.
- Existing relationships within Japan’s SEO, digital marketing, SaaS, media or agency communities.
- Experience developing partnerships or ambassador programs.
- Experience with PR or media relations in Japan.
- Experience organising or hosting meetups, roundtables, workshops or industry events.
- Experience working closely with sales or Enterprise teams.
- Familiarity with Ahrefs and the wider SEO industry.

Location: Tokyo (Jingumae). On-site.

コミュニティ＆パートナーシップ・マーケティングマネージャー（日本）

Ahrefs ｜ 東京・神宮前

ポジションについて

Ahrefsの日本市場でのプレゼンスをさらに高めていくため、リレーションシップ構築を得意とするマーケターを募集します。

このポジションは、コミュニティ、パートナーシップ、イベント、PR、顧客エンゲージメントの交差点に位置する役割です。マーケター、顧客、業界パートナー、Ahrefsアンバサダー、メディア関係者などとの関係を築き、深めながら、日本のマーケティングコミュニティの中でAhrefsの存在感とつながりを強化していただきます。

この仕事の大きなテーマの一つは、「人をつなぐこと」です。たとえば、東京オフィスでのミートアップ開催、顧客向けラウンドテーブルの企画、パートナーとの共同施策、業界イベントでのAhrefs代表としての参加、YouTubeでの顧客インタビュー、あるいは日本のマーケターにとって有益なテーマを軸に新しいコミュニティをつくることなどが含まれます。

決められたやり方をそのまま実行するだけではなく、自分自身で役割を形づくり、より良いプログラムや関係性をつくっていける方を求めています。新しい関係を自ら築き、主体的に動き、日本におけるAhrefsの「顔」の一人として活動することに前向きな方に向いています。

Head of Japan Marketingにレポートし、日本チームおよび必要に応じてグローバルチームと連携して業務を進めます。

勤務地は、神宮前にあるAhrefs東京オフィスです。オフィス勤務のポジションです。

主な業務内容

- 日本国内のマーケター、顧客、業界関係者、メディア、Ahrefsアンバサダー、戦略的パートナーとの関係構築・維持
- 新しいパートナー候補の発掘および関係構築。重要な商談や最終的な判断についてはHead of Japan Marketingと連携
- 日本国内のマーケティング、SEO、ビジネスコミュニティとの接点を広げ、Ahrefsを軸に人が集まる機会をつくる
- ミートアップ、ラウンドテーブル、顧客向けセッション、展示ブース、講演、ネットワーキングなどの企画・運営と、Ahrefs代表としての登壇・出演
- イベント、ウェビナー、顧客向けセッション、YouTube出演、インタビューなど、ビジネス成果を意識したパートナーとの継続的な共同マーケティング施策の展開
- 日本国内のメディアやニュース媒体との関係構築と、Ahrefsが業界の議論に参加できる機会の発見
- イベント前後のフォローを含む、顧客・見込み顧客とのコミュニケーション支援
- 必要に応じてEnterpriseチームと連携しつつ、さまざまなプラン・顧客層を含む幅広いユーザーに向けた施策の実施
- 顧客インタビューや撮影の進行調整と、日本市場向けの事例記事、イベント資料、プレゼンテーションなどの制作・ローカライズ・再活用の支援
- 日本マーケティングチームや関連するグローバルチームと密に連携し、日本での活動をAhrefs全体の優先事項と整合させる
- パートナー訪問、顧客対応、カンファレンス、イベントなどに伴う国内出張への対応

求める人物像

- マーケティング、パートナーシップ、コミュニティ、フィールドマーケティング、事業開発、または関連分野での実務経験が目安として4〜6年程度ある方。経験年数は目安であり、適性のある方については柔軟に検討します。
- ネイティブレベルの日本語力
- ビジネスレベルの英語力
- 新しい関係をゼロから築いていくことに自信があり、関係構築を強みとしている方
- 顧客、パートナー、メディア、登壇者、業界コミュニティなど、社外ステークホルダーとの折衝経験
- 細かい指示や決められたプレイブックがなくても、自ら考え、主体的に進められる方
- 対外的に会社を代表することに抵抗がなく、コミュニケーション力に自信のある方
- イベントの司会・進行、ディスカッションのファシリテーション、カメラ出演、人前での発表などに前向きな方
- マーケティング活動が顧客関係、ブランド成長、リード創出にどうつながるかを理解できるビジネス感覚
- 関係構築、企画、調整、実行を並行して進められるオーガナイズ力
- チームワークを大切にし、日本チーム・グローバルチームの双方と協力して働ける方
- 神宮前のAhrefs東京オフィスへ通勤可能な方

歓迎する経験・スキル

- SEO、デジタルマーケティング、SaaS、B2Bテクノロジー領域での経験
- 日本国内のSEO、デジタルマーケティング、SaaS、メディア、代理店コミュニティとのネットワーク
- パートナーシップやアンバサダープログラムの企画・運営経験
- 日本国内でのPR・メディアリレーション経験
- ミートアップ、ラウンドテーブル、ワークショップ、業界イベントなどの企画・運営または登壇経験
- 営業部門やEnterpriseチームとの協働経験
- AhrefsやSEO業界に関する知識・関心

勤務地：東京・神宮前。オフィス勤務。 Ahrefs does not engage with agencies or third party recruitment solutions for the roles we hire for. If at any point we need help, we'll let you know!

## About Ahrefs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ahrefs is a bootstrapped SaaS marketing platform that helps brands become discoverable online through AI-powered SEO and marketing intelligence tools.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore (Marina One East Tower, 7 Straits View, #08-02, Singapore 018936)
- **Founded**: Not publicly available (references to “15 years of crawling the web” suggest ~2010)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Marketing intelligence, SEO, AI-driven search & content marketing
- **Target customers**: B2B – marketers, SEO professionals, content teams, agencies (44% of Fortune 500 use Ahrefs)
- **Mission or purpose**: “First do it, then do it right, then do it better” – helping people see and be seen on the web; making brands discoverable and unmissable online.

## Products & Services
- **Ahrefs AI Marketing Platform**: An all-in-one suite for planning, publishing, getting discovered, measuring, and optimizing online presence. Backed by 15 years of web crawl data and AI capabilities.
- **Agent A**: An AI marketing agent with unrestricted access to Ahrefs’ full dataset and pre-built “skills” trained by the Ahrefs team. Supports switching between Claude, Gemini, and other models.
- **Yep Search**: A separate search engine product (mentioned on the tech page).
- **Core SEO Tools** (inferred from platform): Site Explorer, Keywords Explorer, Content Explorer, Rank Tracker, Webmaster Tools – all powered by a massive proprietary web crawl (170 trillion links, 41.9 billion keywords, 400 million domains indexed).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (bootstrapped, no external funding)
- **Key Metric**: User growth – 19,715 users joined in the last 7 days (as of mid-2025); 44% of Fortune 500 companies use Ahrefs.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: None – fully bootstrapped.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid AI product launch (Agent A), expanding from SEO into broader marketing intelligence, large-scale infrastructure (170T links, 41.9B keywords), global user base across 143 teammates and 26 locations.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Bootstrapped independence**: No investor pressure, full control over product direction and long‑term vision.
- **Proprietary crawl infrastructure**: In‑house systems crawled the entire web for 15+ years – unmatched data scale and freshness for marketing insights.
- **OCaml & high‑performance engineering**: Backend built on OCaml for reliability and performance; contributes heavily to the OCaml ecosystem.
- **AI with unrestricted data access**: Agent A has full access to Ahrefs’ raw data (not a filtered API), giving it a unique advantage over competitors.
- **Simple, autonomous culture**: Engineers own products end‑to‑end; flat hierarchy, low-ego, and high trust.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI‑first marketing**: Integrating AI deeply across the platform (Agent A, LLM tuning, dense retrieval) to turn raw data into actionable insights.
- **Expanding beyond SEO**: Positioning Ahrefs as a comprehensive “AI marketing platform” that covers content, discovery, and measurement.
- **Global team growth**: Hiring remotely and in hubs (Singapore, Palo Alto, Cambridge) to scale both engineering and marketing teams.
- **Continuous infrastructure improvement**: Maintaining and evolving the world‑scale crawler, search engine, and data processing pipelines.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast‑moving, flat hierarchy, low‑ego, autonomy, and a “do it, do it right, do it better” motto. Described as “offbeat mix of people who love tech and challenges.”
- **Hiring process**: No LeetCode, no coding puzzles, no whiteboard exercises. Takes home task and unstructured technical discussions. Recruiter screen → take‑home task → interview → offer.
- **Remote & hybrid**: Work from anywhere with a remote equipment budget; also offices in Singapore, Palo Alto, and Cambridge. Spend 2 weeks a year in an office for in‑person time.
- **Perks**: Generous PTO (flexible vacation), conference budget, annual retreat (ski trip), modern office setup with premium coffee equipment.
- **Engineering highlights**: Trusted with high agency; a single developer can take a tool from idea to production; open source contributions; no red tape.

## Sources
1. [ahrefs.com/careers](https://ahrefs.com/careers) – Hiring process, culture, perks, locations
2. [ahrefs.com/about](https://ahrefs.com/about) – Mission, bootstrapped status, team size (143), locations, 15 years of crawling
3. [ahrefs.com/team](https://ahrefs.com/team) – Team photo, description of “offbeat” culture
4. [ahrefs.com/tech](https://ahrefs.com/tech) – Tech stack (OCaml, Melange/ReasonML, Python), infrastructure, engineering principles
5. [ahrefs.com](https://ahrefs.com/) – Platform description, Agent A, user growth stats, Fortune 500 adoption, crawl data scale

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