Sales Engineer

Job Description Job Description About Zendesk At Zendesk, we’re revolutionizing what’s possible in Customer Experience (CX) and Employee Services (ES). Our rapid innovation and Agentic AI leadership have earned the trust of thousands of forward-thinking businesses. We help companies foster deep, meaningful relationships with their customers through intelligent, scalable software.

As a Sales Engineer based in Tokyo, you will sit at the intersection of enterprise software strategy, hands-on systems architecture, and advanced AI automation. This is a high-visibility position built for technical builders who are deeply curious about how autonomous agents, security, analytics, and deep integrations fundamentally transform enterprise workflows. You will own the technical strategy for our strategic customer engagements across Japan, acting as a trusted advisor to both the C-suite and engineering leadership.

What you'll be doing Architect Agentic AI & Integration Workflows: Design, build, and operationalize advanced, agentic AI-driven customer workflows leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), deep prompt engineering, and modern automation frameworks. Lead Technical Architecture Discovery: Conduct rigorous, deep-dive technical discovery and AI readiness assessments, translating complex system requirements into scalable enterprise-grade pilots and proofs-of-concept (POCs) that demonstrate clear business value. Build Scalable Accelerators: Proactively develop production-ready, reusable