Business Development
We work closely with clients to understand their businesses and address medium- and long-term challenges together. Rather than responding only to immediate requests, we examine what outcomes the client is trying to achieve and design the right combination of products, services and support with our Product and Solution Development teams. Insights from client work are then fed back into the organisation to improve our offerings.
Career
Career
Working directly with clients, you can be involved in shaping the business itself in pursuit of greater value propositions. It is not unusual to propose clients' digital transformation (DX) strategies and support them through decision-making. Because we are a startup, there is no shortage of opportunities to make proposals with the company's overall growth strategy in mind. You will sharpen your ability to articulate and structure ideas in order to collaborate with teams in a variety of roles, in an environment where you can raise your perspective and expand your own role with intent.
Departments
Our roles
Sales
This role opens up new points of contact with clients and markets, identifying and developing new markets and use cases for MI-6. By identifying structural challenges within companies and industries, we engage prospective clients in dialogue and proposals that go beyond simply introducing our services. We look beyond existing frameworks to find approaches suited to each client's and industry's characteristics.
Marketing
This role tracks shifts in clients and the market, designing and running the mechanisms that deliver MI-6's value to a wide range of existing and prospective clients. By identifying the structure of challenges and needs, we map out a path that connects awareness, relationship-building and business discussions. We deepen our understanding of industries and themes, engage new client segments, and strengthen relationships with existing clients.
Solution Consultant
This role makes full use of MI-6's solutions to lead projects that address challenges within the client's R&D organisation. Taking account of the development theme and the organisation's current situation and context, we design projects that repeat cycles of hypothesis and verification. Working alongside the Business Development and technical teams, we help clients implement lasting changes in how they conduct R&D.
Customer Success Data Scientist
This role provides support aimed at helping clients' teams use our products effectively in practice and generate greater results. Beyond advising on model design and analytical approach, we help clients build the skills and practices needed to use Materials Informatics independently and sustainably.
Account Manager
This role nurtures relationships with clients over the medium to long term while aiming to expand the value we deliver. We broaden contact with related departments and identify opportunities for support across the organisation. By engaging with complex decisions and proposals that look towards long-term growth strategies, we deepen relationships through a steady accumulation of trust and results.
Members
Meet the team
Shota Kodama
Sales
The real appeal of this job is devising and proposing solutions to the specific challenges each client faces, drawing on our knowledge of MI and the range of businesses and technologies MI-6 has to offer. I find it rewarding every day to play a part in technological innovation and help our clients realise their ideal vision.
Asuka Ogi
Customer Success Manager
The greatest reward of this job is supporting the success and growth of clients who use miHub®, and being able to share in their joy when things go well. Seeing clients advance their MI initiatives within their own organisations, up close, is a constant source of positive inspiration for me too.
Hitoshi Harakawa
Customer Success Data Scientist
I work closely alongside clients' development themes, helping them make the most of miHub®.
Repeating cycles of trial and error based on insights from data, and sharing in the joy of achieving development goals together, is one of the great rewards of this job.
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