Academic Partnership Manager - APAC (f/m/d)

Join us as an Academic Partnership Manager - APAC (f/m/d)

Location: Berlin, Germany or Tokyo, Japan

think-cell was founded in 2002 as a start-up. Today, the name think-cell stands for a high standard of graphics software worldwide. With the investor Cinven at our side, we want to continue to grow strategically. 

Your role 
In your new role as Academic Partnership Manager/ Associate you will be end-to-end contributing to a strategic priority of think-cell in the Asia-Pacific region (APAC) – the growth of the academic program.  

In our academic program we bring think-cell and state-of-the-art storytelling to the next generation of leading professionals. This means we provide students and professors with free access to our tool, so that they can already benefit from think-cell during their time at school (find out more here). We have big plans to grow the program significantly with the next years – and you can be an integral part of it.  

The Asia-Pacific region is for think-cell a strategic growth area for the academic program with aggressive growth ambitions of growing at least 3x in 2025.  

In this position you will:

• Grow current partner accounts: We already have a small network of some of the leading academic institutions in APAC incl. elite schools like INSEAD, CEIBS, and NUS Singapore. Your job is to nurture those university relationships, talk to professors, deans and students and promote think-cell via trainings and events to increase awareness and software penetration across the campus 
• Establish new partnership: You will do outreach, help prospects and users how to use think-cell via trainings and ensure smooth usage of think-cell. This includes discussions with student clubs (mainly consulting, finance, competitions), academic institutions as well as strategic partners
• Be responsible end-to-end: The program is in the early stage, which means you can actively shape the program from the top of funnel marketing ideas, plays to increase awareness and adoption through to graduation (‘Best idea wins’) 
• Enable teaching staff: Convincing professors and lecturers to integrate think-cell into your curriculum and to teach critical skills of data visualization and storytelling
• Get your hands dirty: We are speedboat within think-cell which means we can shift priorities fast and everyone is doing what is needed to ensure the success of the program 
• Work closely with a small team: You work directly with the Head of Academics and our Academic Partnership Managers in the US and EMEA on strategic and operational priorities to ensure program success 

Your profile

• Experience: 3-8 years of customer success, (pre-) sales or (strategic) partnership experience 
• Excellent communication and presentation skills – a core part of your job is to inspire people to use think-cell via trainings
• Product: Appreciation of our product and tech in general – willingness to learn think-cell’s product is a must (don’t worry, it’s very intuitive) – prior experience with think-cell a plus
• Winning Attitude: You take your work, but not yourself too seriously 
• Self-starter with a data-driven entrepreneurial mindset – you see challenges not problems
• Language: Fluency in English is a must - one other major APAC language strong plus (e.g., Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Hindi) 
• Location: Berlin-preferred with a hybrid set-up – remote in Germany possible
• Bonus experience: Prior experience in academic sector (i.e., universities, publishers) and relevant knowledge of/ a network in the international business school landscape

This position is based in think-cell’s headquarters in Berlin, Germany or Tokyo, Japan. 

Why us?

think-cell is the world's leading productivity software for creating data-driven presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint, enabling users to generate sophisticated charts with ease while saving substantial time (based on a study, users save as much as 70% of their time compared to using native PowerPoint functionality). think-cell offers unparalleled layout functions for automatically arranging text, graphic elements and images while scaling and aligning their content accordingly.  

Our software has more than 1 million business users in 25 thousand companies. think-cell is used by 10 out of the 10 top global consulting firms, 89% of the Fortune 100, the entire DAX 40, and 9 of the top 10 US business schools. 

Join our Journey  
We encourage you to apply, even if you feel you may not tick every box. At think-cell, we understand that diversity fuels excellence, and we welcome all passionate individuals who want to contribute to our growing and exciting business. Your presence will help shape our inclusive culture and inspire us to reach new heights together.