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Cognition company · OPEN ROLE
- Company
- Engineers design; autonomous agents carry the implementation to review.
- Role
- Launch Korea, own country profit and loss, hire and close deals.
- Language
- Fluent Korean and English
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What you will do
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Responsibilities
- Launch and scale Cognition’s South Korean operations as the first senior hire in market.
- Own country profit and loss, hiring, sales execution and operational performance.
- Build and lead sales, customer success, engineering, support and operations teams.
- Lead strategic partnerships with South Korean enterprises and government agencies.
- Run sales end to end and close enterprise deals directly and through partners.
- Align South Korea product-market fit with global leadership.
- Represent Cognition in South Korea’s business and technology ecosystem.
- Build scalable customer onboarding, implementation and success processes.
- Give Product and Engineering feedback on localization and feature needs.
What you need
- At least 10 years of leadership experience in South Korea, ideally in fast-growing software or AI companies.
- Experience launching and scaling new-market operations selling disruptive software.
- Deep relationships and knowledge of South Korea’s enterprise and government sectors.
- Enterprise sales, partnerships and go-to-market experience with a record of closing complex deals.
- Strategic thinking together with hands-on execution.
- Fluency in Korean and English.
- Experience building cross-functional teams from the ground up with highly capable talent.
- Passion for technology, new ideas and the future of work.
Good to have
- Experience in AI, developer tools or enterprise SaaS.
- Background in engineering or product-led companies.
- Exposure to high-growth US or other international companies expanding into South Korea.
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